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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Words about nothing: writing the ineffable in Calvino and Ma Yuan

Teichert, Evelyne 05 1900 (has links)
The thesis links the writings of the Italian Italo Calvino and the Chinese Ma Yuan through the Taoist symbol of the Tao and the Borgesian concept of the Aleph, an imaginary point in space containing all points in space and time. Based on Zhuangzi’s parable of the Emperor Hun-tun (Chaos) who lost his original state of chaos when he had sensory openings poked into him, the vision of the Aleph/Tao represents the return to that chaotic state of undifferentiated knowledge one experiences when one closes all sensory perceptions. This unnameable vision allows one to transcend all apparent conceptual dichotomies as it lies in the realm of intuition rather than language. Calvino, like Borges, posits that the chaos of the universe cannot be represented through the sequential language system, but nevertheless demonstrates this ineffability through language. Ma Yuan celebrates the chaos of life by writing about a mythological Tibet, upholding the uniqueness of that culture as a subtle subversion to the Chinese political and territorial takeover. Chapter One and Two, respectively, discuss the “Overlapping Conceptual Spaces” in Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Ma Yuan’s ‘The Temptation of the Gangdisi’. Chapter Three looks in greater detail at the images of the Aleph and the Tao in the two main texts against the backdrop of Borgesian thought. In accordance with the concept of the Aleph/Tao whose definition is continuously unsettled by contradictory conjectures, the fourth chapter undoes the conclusions reached in the previous chapters. This chapter discusses Calvino’s Cosmicomics and Ma Yuan’s shorter Tibetan stories in the light of comic parody. That which was earlier posited as the ineffable in these stories is elaborated in a profusion of words. The Conclusion discusses from a Taoist point of view the predominantly male voice in the writings of the two authors. While both advocate the spiritual sameness of all phenomena in an undifferentiated knowledge of the world, they nevertheless write from the male perspective of the yang pursuing and wanting to possess the yin. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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La componente fiabistica nella narrativa di Calvino /

Fusina-Grosso, Mirella. January 1977 (has links)
No description available.
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Throught a glass darkly Pynchon, Calvino, and the mirror /

Mann, Sasha. January 2009 (has links)
Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 65).
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Calvino's desiring machines : literature and the non-human in Deleuze and Calvino

Bourassa, Alan January 1992 (has links)
This thesis stages a meeting between the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the short fiction of Italian writer Italo Calvino. This meeting has as its subject the question of the human and the non-human. What forces make up the human? What assemblages of elements make up language, literature, subjectivity? And what does it mean that these forces come from outside the human at the same time as they create the human? Calvino is often accused of being an unemotional writer, lacking in human warmth. With this I agree completely. Calvino does lack human warmth because he allows non-human forces to penetrate his writing, taking it beyond conventionalized and banal prefabricated emotion into a dimension of new intensities. Deleuze will provide us with a vocabulary of concepts with which to discuss these non-human forces and their potential for moving the human out of itself and into a new assemblage of thoughts, passions and actions.
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The after-life of memory /

Blyn, Robin. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [202]-207).
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Postavantgardistische Ästhetik : Positionen der französischen und italienischen Gegenwartsliteratur /

Gelz, Andreas. January 1996 (has links)
Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Saarbrücken--Universität des Saarlandes, 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 247-262.
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Cidades (in) visíveis = imagens, caminhos e representações / (In) visible cities : images, paths and representations

Souza, Lillian Andreza dos Santos 12 September 2010 (has links)
Orientador: Roberto Berton de Angelo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T12:54:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza_LillianAndrezadosSantos_M.pdf: 11752050 bytes, checksum: 168d032e1fac191ca9590f01266c12ec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo sobre as questões que envolvem a visualidade da cidade. Partindo de um roteiro previamente montado com três livros da obra literária de Ítalo Calvino - "As cidades invisíveis", "Marcovaldo ou as estações na cidade" e "O castelo dos destinos cruzados" - propõe um trânsito entre o espaço urbano e a bidimensionalidade da fotografia que o representa. São quatro capítulos que se dedicam respectivamente a: interpretação do termo imagem da cidade, percepção do espaço através das formas de olhar e transitar por ele, a fotografia como artefato que possibilita a criação de realidades, mostrando a cidade como o outro a enxerga e, por último, um ensaio fotográfico que resgata as questões propostas pelo texto e conclui o trabalho / Abstract: This research presents a study about the questions that involves the visuality of the city. Starting from a previously mounted script with three Ítalo Calvino's books - "Invisible cities", "Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City" and "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" - proposes a passage through the urban space and the two-dimensional photographic representation of the city. There are four chapters dedicated, respectively, to: interpretation of the term "image" of the city, perception of space through the ways of looking and transiting by it, the photography as an artifact that enables the creation of realities, showing up the city as the "other" sees it, and, at last, a photographic essay which involves the proposed questions by the text, concluding the work / Mestrado / Mestre em Multimeios
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As fabulas na trilha de Italo Calvino / Fables in the path of Italo Calvino

Sigrist, Vanina Carrara, 1982- 23 August 2007 (has links)
Orientador: Maria Betania Amoroso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T17:43:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sigrist_VaninaCarrara_M.pdf: 1157635 bytes, checksum: b74d75e6b19f557d8a48effe82a95eaf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Instigada pela recorrente aproximação entre a obra ficcional de Italo Calvino e a fábula, bem como pelo vasto domínio crítico então criado, rico em significações, mas também classificatório e não-orgânico, esta pesquisa traçou o objetivo de recolocar o problema da fábula no período inicial da trajetória de Calvino (1945-1956) em meio às suas centenas de ensaios, cartas, prefácios e introduções, principalmente àqueles pertencentes aos volumes de seus textos não-ficcionais Saggi 1945-1985 e Lettere 1940-1985. O intuito era apreender uma continuidade de possibilidades semânticas da fábula, delineadas pelas disposições políticas, estéticas e lingüísticas do exercício teórico-crítico de Calvino ao longo de uma década, sem permanecer, no entanto, distante de sua ficção, notadamente dos dois livros desse período fundamentais ao problema da pesquisa: A trilha dos ninhos de aranha e Fábulas italianas. Assim, três significações de fábula foram aqui construídas, relacionando-a ao diálogo do escritor com a crítica e a validação de um estilo literário, à busca por um modelo narrativo adequado às necessidades do protagonista em um mundo em guerra e às preocupações com a fisionomia moral do papel do escritor na modernidade / Abstract: Stimulated by the frequent relation between Italo Calvino¿s fictional texts and the fable, as well as by the meaningful but also classificatory and non-organic critical field then created, this research intended to replace the fable issue into the initial period of Calvino¿s trajectory (1945-1956), in the middle of his hundreds of essays, letters, prefaces and introductions, mainly of those non-fictional texts from his books Saggi 1945-1985 and Lettere 1940-1985. The intention was to understand a continuity of semantic possibilities for the fable, demarcated by political, aesthetical and linguistic dispositions of Calvino¿s theoretical-critical practice through a decade, not keeping, however, the distance from his fiction, specially his two essential books from this period to the research: The path to the nest of spiders and Italian fables. Thus three significations for the fable were built here, relating it to the dialogue between the writer and the critics about the validation of a literary style, to the search for a narrative model adequate to the needs of the protagonist in a world on war and to the concerns about a moral configuration for the role of the writer in modernity / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária
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Propostas para o século XXI : o conto popular em Italo Calvino / Proposals for the twenty-first century : the folktale on Italo Calvino's work

Oliveira, Eva Aparecida de, 1979- 08 September 2013 (has links)
Orientador: Maria Betânia Amoroso / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T15:11:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_EvaAparecidade_D.pdf: 2179062 bytes, checksum: 61aca1792eb8aca46254c3f7ae732cea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Italo Calvino dedicou dois anos de trabalho, durante a década de 1950, ainda no começo de sua carreira, "para dar à Itália o seu Grimm". Tendo como base um extenso material reunido a partir de coletâneas regionais, elaboradas por estudiosos durante a segunda metade do século XIX, a empresa se baseou em leitura e reescrita das narrativas da tradição popular, mas não se limitou a tradução e organização do volume. Passando os contos da tradição pela pena do escritor, elaborou o "seu" livro de contos populares. O trabalho com o gênero, porém, produziu outros frutos. Ao identificar nos textos da tradição popular estruturas e motivos que vinham ao encontro de suas próprias aspirações estilísticas, soube utilizar esse conhecimento de forma a ampliar suas possibilidades narrativas. O "fiabesco", o "fantástico" e a "ficção científica" de Calvino possuem suas raízes nesses elementos. Já no final prematuro de sua carreira, ao deixar para o século XX suas propostas de literatura reunidas nas cinco conferências de Lezioni Americane, é justamente do conto popular que o autor vai retirar alguns dos exemplos do que acredita serem valores importantes para o futuro da narrativa / Abstract: In the beginning of his career during the 1950's, Italo Calvino has dedicated two years of his work to "give Italy their Grimm". Based on an extensive material gathered from regional collections during the second half of the nineteenth century, this achievement has relied on reading and rewriting narratives of popular tradition but it was not limited to translation and organization of the volume. Passing tradition tales by his feather, the writer wrote "his" book of popular tales. However the work with the genre produced good fruits. Identifying in popular tradition texts structures and reasons that supported his stylistic aspirations, he knew how to use this knowledge in order to expand his narrative possibilities. Calvino's "fiabesco", "fantastic" and "science fiction" have their roots in these elements. In the premature end of his career, by leaving for the twentieth century his literature proposal collected into five Lezioni Americane conferences, the author will highlight from popular tales some examples he believes that are important values for the future of narrative / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutora em Teoria e História Literária
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Literatura e ciência em Italo Calvino = o mito Qfwfq = Literature and science in Italo Calvino: the myth Qfwfq / Literature and science in Italo Calvino : the myth Qfwfq

Sigrist, Vanina Carrara, 1982- 21 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Maria Betânia Amoroso / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T05:03:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sigrist_VaninaCarrara_D.pdf: 6057497 bytes, checksum: 7af1d1594edb347c0249128368ed4329 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Italo Calvino, questionando-se sobre novas necessidades impostas pelo enfraquecimento de diversos paradigmas conceituais e metodológicos das áreas exatas e humanas do conhecimento, dedicou-se intensamente como editor, crítico e ficcionista à leitura de incontáveis textos científicos e literários, com a mesma postura de curiosidade e de disciplina crítica, principalmente a partir dos anos 1960. Assim, ele desfez a visão cristalizada de que a literatura seria território exclusivo da expressão da subjetividade do autor em contato com o mundo, e de que a ciência se basearia unicamente em procedimentos de precisão e rigor, transmitidos por uma linguagem também exata. Aproximou por diversas vezes literatura e ciência, pensando-as como um híbrido de padrões e de exceções, de regras e de descumprimento das regras. Seu importante ensaio "Cibernética e fantasmas", de 1967, funcionou na pesquisa como núcleo argumentativo potencial para todo o percurso traçado pelas dezenas de textos seus, uma vez que nele são apresentados todos os elementos mínimos da discussão: o caráter combinatório-científico da literatura, o autor literário como máquina da escrita, a extrapolação da linguagem pela literatura como seu valor mítico e o leitor como fantasma responsável pela efetivação desse mito. Projetando esses elementos sobre uma seleção ensaística do período de 1965 a 1985, constata-se que as principais ciências que teriam contribuído para sua obra foram a cibernética, a antropologia, a etnologia, a matemática e a astronomia, concebidas em extrema mobilidade, sem rígidas fronteiras entre si. O escritor, recusando a estética naturalista-realista e a perspectiva antropocêntrica que a sustentaria, privilegiou teorias estruturalistas e semiológicas, a ideia do humano como uma dentre várias formas de vida, os modelos narrativos das culturas primitivas indígenas e ocidentais, a matematização dos procedimentos literários e a progressiva indistinção entre mundo escrito e mundo nãoescrito. Como crítico, entretanto, Calvino tendeu a explorar as afinidades entre literatura e ciência mais do que as especificidades de cada uma, incorrendo em uma postura interpretativa essencialmente estruturalista, abandonando, em certa medida, a noção de mito apresentada em "Cibernética e fantasmas" como momento determinante da linguagem literária. Foi com o objetivo de tentar reencontrar as especificidades literárias em seu discurso que lemos As Cosmicômicas (1965), um projeto de narrar o cosmo que alia ciência e literatura, máquina e humor, mostrando que tais elementos se misturam indefinidamente / Abstract: Italo Calvino, concerned about new demands due to the dissolution of some conceptual and methodological paradigms used in exact and humanistic areas of knowledge, mainly from the 1960's on, had been intensely dedicated as an editor, a critic and a fiction writer to reading several scientific and literary texts, with the same attitude of curiosity and critical discipline. He undid a traditional point of view which used to consider literature pure expression of an author's subjectivity in front of the world, and to consider science exclusively as a set of precise and rigorous procedures, demonstrated through a language also exact. He put literature and science side by side many times, taking them as a hybrid of standards and exceptions, rules and contraventions. His important essay "Cybernetics and ghosts", dating 1967, served in this research as a potential argumentative core for the entire path through dozens of his writings, because in this text all the basic elements of the discussion are presented: the combinatory-scientific nature of literature, the literary author as a writing machine, the explosion of language due to its mythic value and the reader as a ghost responsible for the effectiveness of this myth. Projecting these elements upon a selection of essays from 1965 to 1985, we can see that the main sciences that would have contributed for his writings were cybernetics, anthropology, ethnology, mathematics and astronomy, conceived in extreme mobility, with no clear boundaries among them. Refusing the naturalistic-realistic aesthetics and its anthropocentric perspective, the writer privileged structuralist and semiologic theories, the idea of human as one of several forms of life, narrative models from indigenous and western primitive cultures, the mathematization of literary procedures and the progressive indistinction between written and non-written world. But as a critic Calvino tended to explore the affinities between literature and science, more than the particularities of each one, reaching a way of reading essentially structuralist and leaving behind, in a certain way, the notion of the myth presented in "Cybernetics and ghosts" as an essential moment of literary language. It was with the purpose of trying to find again literary particularities in his speech that we read Cosmicomics (1965), a project of narrating cosmos which associates science and literature, machine and humor, showing that such elements get melted indefinitely / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutora em Teoria e História Literária

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