Carlo Levi''s Visual Poetics - The Painter As Writer

Zusatztext "Lerner's book on Carlo Levi has a great many merits! not least the attention she gives to his much neglected text Quaderno a cancelli." - David Ward! professor of Italian Studies! Wellesley College Informationen zum Autor Giovanna Faleschini Lerner is an assistant professor of Italian at Franklin & Marshall College. Klappentext Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program. Zusammenfassung Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion! and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program. Inhaltsverzeichnis Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics Carlo Levi's New Humanism The Magic of Painting in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli L'Orologio: The Challenge of Time Portraits of the South in Le parole sono pietreand Tutto il miele è finito Quaderno a cancelli: The Space of Memory

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Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics Carlo Levi's New Humanism The Magic of Painting in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli L'Orologio: The Challenge of Time Portraits of the South in Le parole sono pietreand Tutto il miele è finito Quaderno a cancelli: The Space of Memory

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"Lerner's book on Carlo Levi has a great many merits, not least the attention she gives to his much neglected text Quaderno a cancelli." - David Ward, professor of Italian Studies, Wellesley College

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• Authors: G Lerner, G. Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, LERNER GIOVANNA FALESCHINI
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2012
• EAN: 9780230390645
• ISBN: 978-0-230-39064-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies; Italian and Italian American S; Italian and Italian American S; Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, History, Fine Arts, European History, The arts: general issues, Arts, Fine Art, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, History, Modern, Modern History, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Europe—History, Fine arts: art forms, Literature: history and criticism, Europe;fascism;poetics