The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone
Author: Elizabeth Leake
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802087676

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone raises complex theoretical issues about authorship and audiences and about the relationship between text and context.

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1990-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804766576

Italo Calvino's reputation as one of the great writers of our century rests chiefly on his allegorical fables and fantastic narratives, whose inventiveness, irreverence, and elegant style are universally admired. In this study, the author focuses on Calvino's first novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), because in it she discerns a critical point of origin for Calvino's entire 'ethics' of writing. She shows how, in The Path, he challenges the poetics of objectivity of the Italian neorealists movement and offers a complex and ironic representation of the anti-Fascist armed resistance in Italy. Situating Calvino's early work in its historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about realism of such critics as Lukacs, Sartre, Brecht, Adorno, and Barthes. She analyzes neorealism's narrative practices and cultural and political implications, while setting neorealism in the context of the resistance and the postwar Reconstruction in Italy and giving readings of major neorealist texts (novels by Pavese and Vittorini, films by Rossellini, Visconti, and others) as well as relatively obscure minor ones. The heart of the book consists of readings of The Path from four different but intersecting critical perspectives: formalist-narratological, sociohistorical, psychoanalytic, and Bakhtinian. The readings assess the importance of Calvino's beginnings for the body of his work and incorporate relevant references to his later fiction and critical essays. Out of these multiple readings, the ironic estrangement of the real through the act of writing itself emerges as his key narratological strategy.

Understanding Luigi Pirandello

Understanding Luigi Pirandello
Author: Fiora A. Bassanese
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781570030819

This is an introduction to the life and literary contributions of a Nobel Prize winner and one of Italy's most distinguished writers, Luigi Pirandello. It evaluates the significance of his influence on 20th century literature.

The Folklore of Consensus

The Folklore of Consensus
Author: Marcia Landy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780791438039

Examines the Italian popular cinema's preoccupation with theatricality in the 1930s and early 1940s, arguing that theatricality was a form of politics--a politics of style.

Understanding Italo Calvino

Understanding Italo Calvino
Author: Beno Weiss
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780872498587

Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.

Italian Neorealism

Italian Neorealism
Author: Charles L. Leavitt IV
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1487507100

This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism - an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class - through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.

The Mirror of Our Anguish

The Mirror of Our Anguish
Author: Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1978
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838619308

Introduces to the English-reading public the seven novels and the most typical tales of that writer, whose literary fame still rests upon his achievements as a dramatist.

Italian Film

Italian Film
Author: Marcia Landy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2000-04-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780521649773

Examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present.