REED in review : essays in celebration of the first twenty-five years / edited by Audrey Douglas and Sally-Beth MacLean.

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9781442627383
9781442658127
9781281994363
9786611994365
661199436X

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PN2583 .R443 2006

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Subject: Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work. Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context? the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy? by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART 1: FOUNDATION AND METHODOLOGY; The Founding of Records of Early English Drama; Birthing the Concept: The First Nine Years; 'Practice Makes Perfect': Policies for a Cross-Disciplinary Project; PART 2: REED'S 'PERFORMANCE': IMPACT AND RESPONSE; Gathering in the Name of the Outlaw: REED and Robin Hood; What Hath REED Wrought? REED and Patronage; Margins to the Centre: REED and Shakespeare; Everything's Back in Play: The Impact of REED Research on Elizabethan Theatre History; PART 3: WHITHER REED?

REED and the Record Office: Tradition and Innovation on the Road to AccessRoles in Life: The Drama of the Medieval Guilds; Crossing the Border: The Provincial Records of Southeast Scotland; REED and the Possibilities of Web Technologies; Herodotus in the Labyrinth: REED and Hypertext; Thinking Outside the Bard: REED, Repertory Canons, and Editing Early English Drama; Using REED: A Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y.

Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work. Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context? the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy? by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.

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