Calvino's Fictions Cogito and Cosmos

Name: Calvino's Fictions Cogito and Cosmos
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ISBN: 9780198151845

ISBN-10: 0198151845

ISBN-13: 9780198151845

Edition: 1992

Authors: Kathryn Hume

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Partisan fighting, air pollution, science, gold-leafed tarot cards, novelistic genres: Calvino's fiction encompasses a wide variety of subjects. In this book Kathryn Hume analyzes the "unmistakable accent" that unites his disparate creations and identifies Calvino's fundamental imaginative structures: his metaphysic of particles and flux, his granular concept of reality, his many images of engulfment, his models and microcosms, tracing the metamorphoses of such images throughout his novels and stories. The cosmicomical tales, with their focus on science, are seen as crucial to the development of the symbolic mindscapes that made Calvino a major international writer. He died before arriving…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



A Note on Textual Practices


Introduction



The Garden of Forking Paths: Exploratory Fictions



Calvino's Cosmos and the Gazing I



Cosmogony, Cosmography, and the Cosmicomical Stories



Identifying the Labyrinth: From The Path to the Nest of Spiders to Marcovaldo



Literature as Web: The Castle of Crossed Destinies and If on a winter's night a traveler



Observing the Invisible: Invisible Cities and Mr. Palomar



Interior Cosmos, Inward Civilization


Bibliography


Index