The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy,
the United States, and the United Kingdom 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 create recognizable patterns in the
readings of Calvino's texts in different contexts. This 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 background), and 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 Author in Criticism also analyzes 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. This volume purposefully foregrounds 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, this 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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