The Author in Criticism - Italo Calvino's Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom

The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino's works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new views that arise from the analysis of the different phases and faces that characterize Calvino's transnational authorial profile.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Dead Author and the Paratextual Calvino

Chapter Two: Calvino Within the Canon and Counter-Canon

Chapter Three: Calvino from High to Low: The Case of Science Fiction

Chapter Four: Calvino Crossing Boundaries: Trans[n/l]ational, Gendered and Posthuman Calvini

Conclusion: Moving Beyond Calvino With Calvino: Will the Real Calvino Please Stand Up?

Bibliography

Appendix: Further Reading

Index

About the Author

About the author

By Elio Attilio Baldi

Product details

• Authors: Elio Attilio Baldi
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2022
• EAN: 9781683931935
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-193-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama