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Author: Valentina Polcini Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443860832 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 218
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This book investigates the relationship between Dino Buzzati’s fiction and Anglo-American culture by focusing on his re-use of visual texts (Arthur Rackham’s illustrations), narrative sources (Joseph Conrad’s novels), and topoi belonging to such genres as the seafaring tale, the ghost story and the Christmas story. Tracing Buzzati’s recurring theme of the loss of imagination, Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture shows that, far from being a mere imitator, he carries on an original and conscious reworking of pre-existing literary motifs. Especially through the adoption of intertextual strategies, Buzzati laments the lack of an imaginative urge in contemporary society and attempts a recovery of the fantastic imagery of his models. Alongside a reconsideration of Buzzati’s intertextuality, this book offers new insights into Buzzati’s fantastic fiction, by highlighting its playful and ironic component as opposed to the more overtly pervading sense of gloominess and nostalgia. Furthermore, while filling a gap in the critical study of Buzzati in the English-speaking world, the book contributes towards a general reassessment of an author who, although regarded as minor for many years, can rightly be ranked among the masters of twentieth-century fantastic literature.
Author: Valentina Polcini Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443860832 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 218
Book Description
This book investigates the relationship between Dino Buzzati’s fiction and Anglo-American culture by focusing on his re-use of visual texts (Arthur Rackham’s illustrations), narrative sources (Joseph Conrad’s novels), and topoi belonging to such genres as the seafaring tale, the ghost story and the Christmas story. Tracing Buzzati’s recurring theme of the loss of imagination, Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture shows that, far from being a mere imitator, he carries on an original and conscious reworking of pre-existing literary motifs. Especially through the adoption of intertextual strategies, Buzzati laments the lack of an imaginative urge in contemporary society and attempts a recovery of the fantastic imagery of his models. Alongside a reconsideration of Buzzati’s intertextuality, this book offers new insights into Buzzati’s fantastic fiction, by highlighting its playful and ironic component as opposed to the more overtly pervading sense of gloominess and nostalgia. Furthermore, while filling a gap in the critical study of Buzzati in the English-speaking world, the book contributes towards a general reassessment of an author who, although regarded as minor for many years, can rightly be ranked among the masters of twentieth-century fantastic literature.
Author: Ellen Victoria Nerenberg Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802035080 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 300
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An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.
Author: Andrea Aroldi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1291262261 Category : Fiction Languages : it Pages : 402
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Gennaio 2012: Splinder chiude. Entrai in Splinder, la piattaforma digitale dove ho creato il blog "Il deserto dei Tartari" con il nickname di Volkhvaar, nell'ottobre del 2005. Perché? Ci sono entrato per uscire dalla prigione entro cui m'ero volontariamente rinchiuso, osservando il mondo dalle sue mura senza comunicare con esso. La parola però non era defunta dentro di me e il blog, questo tipo di blog, ha permesso che essa sgorgasse, portandomi a conoscere altri blogger che ora sono amici veri. Gennaio 2012: Splinder chiude. Sì, l'anno 2012 è stato un anno di chiusure, di cambiamenti importanti e definitivi: questo volume raccoglie tutti i post che scrissi, la Parola che sgretolò le mie mura.
Author: Robin Healey Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802008008 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 648
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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.
Author: Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 9781590170762 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 152
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Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks. Over all this, the bears triumph with bravery, ingenuity, humility, and high spirits.
Author: Brian Nelson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134521871 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 244
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This volume explores the relationship between literature and translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The distinctiveness of the volume lies in the fact that it considers these fundamental aspects of literary translation together and in terms of their interconnections. Contributors examine a wide variety of texts, including world classics, poetry, genre fiction, transnational literature, and life writing from around the world. Both theoretical and empirical issues are covered, with some contributors approaching the topic as practitioners of literary translation, and others writing from within the academy.
Author: Felix Siddell Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1905237111 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 245
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Examining the key works of Buzzati and Morante, Siddell looks at two coexisting and conflicting approaches: one which defined place as an outcome of individual perception, and another in which place is understood as an arrangement of locations separate from the individual. The progression of Buzzati's texts from plausible indications of location to perception-bound space is examined, as is Morante's use of enclosed spaces as the basis of a conceptualisation of elsewhere, paying attention to the contrast and interaction between opposing constructs of place.
Author: Gaetana Marrone Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135455309 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 2256
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The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.
Author: Valentina Polcini
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