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Difficult Loves

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2017-08-29
ISBN 10 : 9780544133419
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (544 users)

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Download Difficult Loves PDF by Italo Calvino Full Free and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war “with enormous realist dignity” in this collection of “wondrous work from [his] early career” (Kirkus, starred review). In this short story collection, one of Italy’s greatest storytellers explores the interior lives of characters just as their most cherished illusions of love are suddenly swept away. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach by the loss of her bikini bottom. Confronted with a jarring moment of recognition, each of these characters discovers hidden truths beneath the surface of everyday life. This is the first edition in English to present these fifteen short stories together as Calvino originally envisioned them. It also includes two stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein.

The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling

Author : Wayne Santos
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-03-26
ISBN 10 : 9781786184504
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (786 users)

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Difficult Games

Author : Franco Ricci
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780889206342
Pages : 143 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (889 users)

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Download Difficult Games PDF by Franco Ricci Full Free and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.

Image, Eye and Art in Calvino

Author : Birgitte Grundtvig
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
ISBN 10 : 9781351563291
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (351 users)

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Download Image, Eye and Art in Calvino PDF by Birgitte Grundtvig Full Free and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85). Involved for most of his life in the publishing industry, he took as much interest in the visual as in the textual aspects of his own and other writers' books. In this volume twenty international Calvino experts, including Barenghi, Battistini, Belpoliti, Hofstadter, Ricci, Scarpa and others, consider the many facets of the interplay between the visual and textual in Calvinos works, from the use of colours in his fiction to the influence of cartoons, from the graphic qualities of the book covers themselves to the significance of photography and landscape in his fiction and non-fiction. The volume is appropriately illustrated with images evoked by Calvino's major texts.

Understanding Italo Calvino

Author : Beno Weiss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0872498581
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (498 users)

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Writing Architecture in Modern Italy

Author : Daria Ricchi
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-02
ISBN 10 : 9781000199505
Pages : 150 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 ( users)

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Download Writing Architecture in Modern Italy PDF by Daria Ricchi Full Free and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers and translators. Linking architectural history and historiography within a broader history of ideas, this book proposes four different methods of writing history, defining historiographical genres, modes, and tones of writing that can be applied to history writing to analyze political and social moments in time. It identifies four writing genres: myths, chronicles, history, and fiction, which became accepted as forms of multiple postmodern historical stories after 1957. An important contribution to the architectural debate, Writing Architecture in Modern Italy will appeal to those interested in the history of architecture, history of ideas, and architectural education.

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0802008003
Pages : 648 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (8 users)

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Download Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation PDF by Robin Healey Full Free and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

Moving Targets

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : House of Anansi
Release Date : 2004-09-04
ISBN 10 : 9780887849114
Pages : 432 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (887 users)

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Download Moving Targets PDF by Margaret Atwood Full Free and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2004-09-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to the recently reissued Second Words, Moving Targets is an essential collection of critical prose by Margaret Atwood, now available in a handsome new A List edition. The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood’s work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid’s Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood’s fertile and curious mind in action over the years. Atwood’s controversial political pieces, “Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes” and “Letter to America” — both not-so-veiled warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq — also appear, alongside pieces that exhibit her active concern for the environment, the North, and the future of the human race. Atwood also writes about her peers: John Updike, Marina Warner, Italo Calvino, Marian Engel, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin. This is a landmark volume from a major writer whose worldwide readership is in the millions, and whose work has influenced and entertained generations. Moving Targets is also the companion volume to the recently reissued Second Words.

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-03-07
ISBN 10 : 9781487502928
Pages : 1104 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (487 users)

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Download Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 PDF by Robin Healey Full Free and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Cycles of Influence

Author : Stephen Benson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0814329497
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (329 users)

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Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm

Author : Bridget Tompkins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2015-06-28
ISBN 10 : 9781784623296
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (784 users)

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Download Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm PDF by Bridget Tompkins Full Free and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm: Fashioning the Feminine in I nostri antenati and Gli amori difficili is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino’s fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist interpretative techniques, this book offers interesting alternative readings of two of Calvino’s important early narrative collections. The Pygmalion paradigm concerns the creation by a male ‘artist’ of a feminine ideal and highlights the artificiality and narcissistic desire associated with the creation process. This book discusses Calvino’s active and deliberate work of self-creation, accomplished through extensive self-commentaries and exposes both the lack of importance Calvino placed on the feminine in his narratives and the relative absence of critical attention focused on this area. Relying on the analogy between Pygmalion’s pieces of ivory and Barthes’ ‘seme’ and drawing upon the ideas underlying Kristevan intertextuality, the book demonstrates that, despite Calvino’s professed lack of interest in character development, his female characters are carefully and purposefully constructed. A close reading of Calvino’s narratives, engaging directly with Freud, Lacan and the feminist psychoanalytical thinking of Kofmann, Kristeva, Kaplan and others, demonstrates how Calvino uses his female characters as foils for the existential reflections of his typically maladjusted and narcissistic male characters.

Derrida and Religion

Author : Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0415968887
Pages : 446 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (968 users)

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Northeast India

Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
ISBN 10 : 9781108225786
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (18 users)

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Download Northeast India PDF by Yasmin Saikia Full Free and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.

Images of Thought

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2010-03-30
ISBN 10 : 9780791493854
Pages : 283 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (791 users)

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations

Author : John J. L. Mood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1994-02-17
ISBN 10 : 9780393350173
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (393 users)

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Tomas Gutierrez Alea

Author : Paul A. Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-21
ISBN 10 : 9781135350758
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (135 users)

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Living with Oil and Coal

Author : Dolly Kikon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-03-22
ISBN 10 : 9780295745022
Pages : 204 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (295 users)

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Download Living with Oil and Coal PDF by Dolly Kikon Full Free and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. Bringing a fresh and exciting direction to borderland studies, she explores the social bonds established through practices of resource extraction and the tensions these relations generate, focusing on peoples’ love for the landscape and for the state, as well as for family, friends, and neighbors. Living with Oil and Coal illuminates questions of citizenship, social justice, and environmental politics that are shared by communities worldwide.