Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2221525
Frey Kalus
I had not seen ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. Charlotte Brontë, Letter to G.H. Lewes (12 January 1848)
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2221136
C. Dellacasa
spazio alternativo e fruttuoso e di scardinare il limitante dualismo tra il romanzo neotradizionale – quello che Gian Carlo Ferretti ha chiamato il ‘romanzo di successo di qualità’ – e l’antiromanzo della neoavanguardia, rappresentando altresì l’estrema antitesi, nelle sue massime propaggini degli anni Settanta, alla crescente autoreferenzialità e al ‘disimpegno’ ludico tipici del romanzo postmodernista.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2220538
Eleonora Lima
ABSTRACT This article considers the place of Le città invisibili within the debate on cybernetics, both as a product of its time as well as a harbinger of the future advent of network culture. It proposes to interpret the two most emblematic images of the book – the enchanted palace of the Kublai Khan, and the everchanging ‘invisible cities’ visited by Marco Polo – as Calvino’s personal contribution to the definition of cybertext and cyberspace. Curiously, the same emblematic images are also found in the work of two of Calvino’s contemporaries: the American pioneer of information technology Ted Nelson, and the Japanese architect and exponent of the Metabolist movement Arata Isozaki. Through a comparative analysis, this article shows how the new concept of information brought by cybernetics crystallised in virtually identical images and metaphors across disciplines and cultures: in literature, with Calvino, in computer science with Nelson, and in architecture with Isozaki.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2221134
Niccolò Amelii
cosa di cui Saba stesso, osserva Worsnip, forse peccava – un poeta che si pone, ancora prima di iniziare a scrivere, l’idea di essere onesto e spiegare a tavolino l’onestà delle cose. Come ogni selezione, quella di Worsnip è una scelta critica – cioè di poesia: ‘credo Saba dia il suo meglio quando guarda alle cose della vita intorno a sé e ci riflette sopra, non quando parte con l’intenzione di dirci della vita il significato’. La speranza è che questa edizione arrivi ad essere frequentata sia da chi Saba non sa chi sia e – tramite nuovi lettori – a chi Saba lo conosceva già.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2218226
Pierpaolo Antonello, Mara Josi, Nicole Maniero
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was unquestionably one of the most prominent and influential twentieth-century Italian writers, both at national and international levels. The year 2023 marks the centenary of his birth, a fitting moment to reassess his literary legacy, and to put forward new critical perspectives on his work, particularly by intercepting the emerging interest from a younger generation of scholars who are placing Calvino under novel critical and theoretical light. Given his self-exegetical effort, which funnelled and constrained his critical reception and discussion, and his role as a gate-keeper of a specific idea of literature that has maintained an authoritative position for decades, Calvino has held a contested centrality in the context of the Italian Novecento, reaching the position of an instant ‘classic’ when still alive. This has contributed to his success but also produced forms of militant ‘rejection’ within the Italian critical field, particularly in relation to the socalled ‘post-modern’, de-politicised phase of his production. However, in spite of any prescriptive ideological positioning, or of historically sensitive attempts at (de)canonisation, it is indubitable that Calvino represents a possibility (or a potentiality) for literature in one of its most exemplary and original forms in the context of twentieth-century writing. Re-discussing Calvino in the present also presupposes the kind of gesture towards the future that informed his last book, Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio, as an attempt to discuss the function of literature and its tradition in respect to the epistemic and cultural challenges in the contemporary context. With his phenomenological, non-Cartesian posture towards reality, for Calvino, literature is the site where one can experiment with, and juxtapose, different narratives and modes of structuring our understanding of reality, with science being eminently important in providing new world-views and myths. As a result, the readings included in this special issue are in conversation with the contemporary and with some of the salient issues that have emerged within literary criticism in recent years at the international level, widening critical parameters towards programmatic interdisciplinary work, as the outstanding focality emerging in the critical approaches to Calvino’s oeuvre at the international level. This informed the symposium held in Cambridge in May 2021 from which this special issue emerged. In anticipation of the Centenary celebratory event, the guest editors, in collaboration with Guido Furci from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, set up an international conference, titled Italo Calvino: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives. More established scholars and a new generation of young researchers were invited to engage in a dialogue on new critical readings of Calvino’s work through interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. The critical and theoretical tools offer
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2217596
C. Dellacasa
ABSTRACT Italo Calvino travelled to Japan in 1976 and, throughout his career, became increasingly acquainted with Japanese literature and Buddhist philosophy. This encounter is evidenced by the ‘Japanese shelves’ of his Roman library and by several authorial reflections, which this article scrutinises in order to highlight the material-ecocritical relevance of Calvino’s contact with Japanese nature and culture. In particular, this analysis interprets Japanese gardens as spaces where Calvino rethinks his sense of the human and more-than-human by establishing their mutually constitutive relations. Augustin Berque’s concept of ‘trajectivity’, according to which dualisms are constantly transcended in Japanese milieux, guides this exploration of how Calvino’s Japanese reflections in Collezione di sabbia articulate his dialectical challenge to logocentrism in ‘The Written World and the Unwritten World’, to gendered dichotomies in the Japanese chapter of Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, and to traditional humanism in Palomar.
伊塔洛·卡尔维诺于1976年前往日本，在他的职业生涯中，他对日本文学和佛教哲学越来越熟悉。他的罗马图书馆的“日本书架”和一些作者的反思证明了这种遭遇，本文仔细审查，以突出卡尔维诺与日本自然和文化接触的物质生态批评相关性。特别是，这一分析将日本花园解释为卡尔维诺通过建立相互构成的关系来重新思考他对人类和超越人类的感觉的空间。Augustin Berque的“轨迹”概念，根据二元论在日本环境中不断被超越，指导了卡尔维诺在《Collezione di sabbia》中的日本反思如何表达他对“书面世界和未书面世界”中的逻各斯中心主义的辩证挑战，对日本章节中的性别二分法的挑战，以及对帕洛玛的传统人文主义的挑战。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2167619
Rebecca Bowen
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2185435
C. Barni
ABSTRACT Modern scholars regard La Veniexiana as an apolitical, erotic play, relevant only because women are active leaders of the love game in a patriarchal reversal. Through a close reading of the comedy based on its socio-political context, this article challenges this view. I maintain that chaos is key. I argue that La Veniexiana does not portray a definitive inversion of gendered norms, but rather depicts ever-changing power dynamics which cause chaos. The characters speak different dialects and are both romantic predators and prey. Two confident, rich women speaking Venetian dialect flirt with Giulio, a Milanese citizen speaking pseudo-Italian, who embodies a foreign threat. The erotic and linguistic chaos evokes and mirrors early Cinquecento Venice’s unstable geopolitical situation. Hence, rather than being exclusively concerned with lascivious subjects, La Veniexiana poses an implied controversial question: Will Venetians overpower their conquerors, or will they be complacently conquered?
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00751634.2023.2167782
Charlotte Alton
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