| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 17 |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 17.
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| Contents |
The inner city of the imagination: utopia and the ethical charge of fiction -- Retroterra: urban planners, architects, and the city in crisis -- Memos for the city of the next millennium: invisible cities as embodiment of urban renewal -- Architectures of lightness |
| Summary |
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works -- primarily urban planning and design theory and history -- circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, redu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Calvino, Italo -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Calvino, Italo fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011017277 |
| ISBN |
9780203817643 |
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0203817648 |
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9781136730597 |
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1136730591 |
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1136730605 |
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9781136730603 |
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9786613151124 |
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6613151122 |
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