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The Author in Criticism - Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Hardcover)
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The Author in Criticism - Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom (Hardcover)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
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The Author in Criticism explores the cultural and historic patterns
and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo
Calvino's works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom
and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to
diversify readings of Calvino's texts in different contexts. The
volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science
fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the
(re)current image of the author in different media, academic
schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as
gender and place of birth), translation and the language in which
the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the
influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino.
The book analyses as well Calvino's various professional roles as
writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent and
public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little
acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important
underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic
has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often
solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex
critical analyses. The volume purposefully predilects the textual
and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the
works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks,
interviews etc. In this way, the book provides insight into the
reception of Calvino's works in different countries. Moreover, it
forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the
workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses
have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.
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