Italo Calvino as World Literature
Italo Calvino as World Literature
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The year 2023 marked the centenary of Italo Calvino's birth: a century characterized by an ever-increasing world-wide interest in Calvino, one of the most representative authors of contemporary Italian literature.
Italo Calvino as World Literature looks at the writer's production in translation, at the diverse relations it has had with different cultures of the world, and at its reception across disciplines and media. In the process, Calvino's own understanding of culture emerges as a porous entity with limited or no disciplinary boundaries, and his oeuvre as a luminous specimen of world literature.
Not only have Calvino's books been translated into 56 languages, but they have also absorbed specificities from several languages, rhetorical strategies from various genres, and tropes from disparate media. Moreover, Calvino elaborated the literature of many different traditions and entered into dialogue with disciplinary areas as diverse as ecology, anthropology, sociology, and politics. The essays in this volume will unravel these multiple threads by engaging primarily with questions of translation and translatability, cultural proximities, as well as cross-disciplinary and transmedia exchanges.
Each chapter in Italo Calvino as World Literature takes one or more of Calvino's books – from both his narrative and essayistic production – as a starting point to foreground the depth and breadth of the world-literature relevance of his rich and stratified oeuvre. The book will also be enriched by three interludes and a coda, adapting Calvino's multifarious production to different forms of creative expression, including graphic, radio, and musical ones.
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Table of Contents
Claudia Dellacasa, University of Glasgow, UK, and Enrica Maria Ferrara, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Part I. CALVINO ACROSS BORDERS
1. (In)visible Cities: Calvino, Joyce and the Translational Palimpsest
Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2. Calvino and Japanese Wooden Temples: Between Micro- and Macroscopic Scales of Becoming
Claudia Dellacasa, University of Glasgow, UK
3. Calvino Actor-Author and Eco-Translation
Enrica Maria Ferrara, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
4. Five Memos for Five International Writers of this Millennium
Alessandra Sarchi, Catherine Dunne, Nadia Terranova, Mandana Chaffa, Stiliana Milkova (independent writers)
INTERLUDE 1. When One Is Somebody (original translation of a chapter from Calvino fa la conchiglia [Calvino Makes the Shell, 2023])
Domenico Scarpa, Independent Scholar and Translator, Italy
Part II. CALVINO ACROSS CULTURES
5. “In the ark spaces between the dead, shining stars…” Italo Calvino's Human Cosmology in Teju Cole
Alessandro Raveggi, Gonzaga University, USA
6. Italo Calvino and Mikhail Bakhtin: A Comparative Reading beyond the Carnivalesque
Claudia Dellacasa, University of Glasgow, UK, and Alastair Renfrew, Durham University, UK
7. The Right Distance, the Distance Left: The Invisibility and Avisuality of the Black Other in the Works of Italo Calvino
Elio Attilio Baldi, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8. A “Foundation” in the Real: Politics, Society, and Calvino's American Success
John Domini, Independent Scholar, USA
INTERLUDE 2. An Impossible Interview with Italo Calvino (loosely based on Calvino's original radio interviews)
Silvio Perrella, Literary Critic, Italy
Part III. CALVINO ACROSS DISCIPLINES
9. The Emergence of the Post-Human: Calvino against Himself in La giornata d'uno scrutatore and Palomar
Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University, Canada
10. Otherness, Monstrosity, Disability in Calvino's Italian Folktales
Silvia Pacelli, Università degli Studi di Roma 3, Italy
11. Questioning Identity: A Phenomenological Reading of Italo Calvino
Chiara Fenoglio, University of Turin, Italy
12. Porosity and Assemblages in Calvino's Horizontal Anthropology
Anna Botta, Smith College, USA
INTERLUDE 3. We Meet across Borders: Reading-Writing Calvino with Ray González (graphic essay)
Éireann Lorsung, University College Dublin, Ireland
Part IV. CALVINO ACROSS MEDIA
13. “L'illimitato” and “la gabbia”: Rhetorical Strategies of Calvino's Essays Dedicated to Paintings and Landscapes
Chiara De Caprio, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
14. 'The Calvino Effect: Cosmicomics as Inventive Disruption
Kevin Foskin, Colorado State University, USA
15. Chipping Away at the Monument: The Online Debate over the Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Michele Farina, University of Milan, Italy
CODA. Palomar as a Musical Score
Matthew Houston, Independent Scholar, USA
AFTERWORD
To Be Human, To Be Uncertain: Interpretational Waves from Virginia Woolf to Italo Calvino
Enrico Terrinoni. University of Perugia, Italy
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798765134276 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 8 b&w illustrations |
| Series | Literatures as World Literature |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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