Calvino And The Pygmalion Paradigm
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Calvino And The Pygmalion Paradigm
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Author : Bridget Tompkins
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2015-06-28
Calvino And The Pygmalion Paradigm written by Bridget Tompkins and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm: Fashioning the Feminine in I nostri antenati and Gli amori difficili is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino’s fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist interpretative techniques, this book offers interesting alternative readings of two of Calvino’s important early narrative collections. The Pygmalion paradigm concerns the creation by a male ‘artist’ of a feminine ideal and highlights the artificiality and narcissistic desire associated with the creation process. This book discusses Calvino’s active and deliberate work of self-creation, accomplished through extensive self-commentaries and exposes both the lack of importance Calvino placed on the feminine in his narratives and the relative absence of critical attention focused on this area. Relying on the analogy between Pygmalion’s pieces of ivory and Barthes’ ‘seme’ and drawing upon the ideas underlying Kristevan intertextuality, the book demonstrates that, despite Calvino’s professed lack of interest in character development, his female characters are carefully and purposefully constructed. A close reading of Calvino’s narratives, engaging directly with Freud, Lacan and the feminist psychoanalytical thinking of Kofmann, Kristeva, Kaplan and others, demonstrates how Calvino uses his female characters as foils for the existential reflections of his typically maladjusted and narcissistic male characters.
The Author In Criticism
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Author : Elio Attilio Baldi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2020-03-11
The Author In Criticism written by Elio Attilio Baldi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.
Italo Calvino And The Pygmalion Paradigm
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Author : Bridget Tompkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Italo Calvino And The Pygmalion Paradigm written by Bridget Tompkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Women in literature categories.
This thesis explores the representation of the feminine in two of Italo Calvino's early collections, I nostri antenati and Gli amori difficili, using the Pygmalion paradigm as the theoretical framework and adopting a feminist approach. The Pygmalion paradigm concerns the creation by a male 'artist' of a feminine ideal and highlights the artificiality and selfreflecting narcissistic desire associated with the creation process. I emphasise Calvino's active and deliberate work of self-creation, accomplished through extensive selfcommentaries in which he directed critical attention as much by what he omitted to say as by what he stressed, and highlight both the lack of importance Calvino placed on the feminine in his narratives and the relative absence of critical attention focused on this area. Relying on the analogy between Pygmalion's pieces of ivory and Barthes's 'seme' and drawing upon the ideas underlying Kristevan intertextuality, I demonstrate that, despite Calvino's professed lack of interest in character development, his female characters are carefully and purposefully constructed. In this feminist reading, I illustrate that Calvino's favouring of weightless writing and economy of expression, accomplished through his use of well-recognised literary tropes, stereotypical forms and ideas, and by his borrowings from the literary canon, all of which derive from a strongly patriarchal heritage, results in female characters that overwhelmingly reflect their androcentric inspiration. Approaching through the narcissism, fetishism and Oedipal themes, and the associated fear of castration that accompanies Pygmalion's creative gesture, I reveal the substantial psychological substratum underlying Calvino's narratives and challenge his professed lack of interest in the psychological dimension. A close reading of Calvino's narratives, engaging directly with Freud, Lacan and the feminist psychoanalytical thinking of Kofmann, Kristeva, Kaplan and others, demonstrates how Calvino uses his female characters as foils for the existential reflections of his typically maladjusted and narcissistic male characters. Finally, a detailed examination of the deliberations of Calvino's rare female protagonists discloses reasoning that is, at times, androcentric to the point of being laughable to the modern female reader.
Women Screenwriters
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Author : Jill Nelmes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Women Screenwriters written by Jill Nelmes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 300 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1986 to the present day. Divided into six sections by continent, the entries give an overview of the history of women screenwriters in each country, as well as individual biographies of its most influential.
Kartograph Der Dispositive
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Author : Martina Eleonora Kollroß
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-12-31
Kartograph Der Dispositive written by Martina Eleonora Kollroß and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
In den 1960er Jahren intensivierte der Schriftsteller Italo Calvino seine ästhetischen Bemühungen, „die Landkarte des labyrinthischen Gefängnisses zu umreißen, in dem sich der Mensch des 20. Jahrhunderts bewegt." Es ging ihm darum, mithilfe seiner Poetik biopolitische Dispositive der Welt zu entwirren. Dabei stellt die Erzählung La giornata d’uno Scrutatore die epistemologische Schwelle dar, an der Calvino auf die Widerstandskraft des Lebendigen stößt. Auf Basis dieses neuen Lebensbegriffs entwarf er eine Vielzahl poetologischer Verfahren, um die Lebendigkeit der komplexen Welt ästhetisch aufzubereiten, und eröffnete damit gezielt ethische Diskurse. Durch die bio-poetische Annäherung schlägt Calvino ein neues literarisches Modell vor, das vielfache Anschlussmöglichkeiten für aktuelle Diskurse bietet. Mit dem Fokus auf die poetische Kategorie des „Lebendigen" und das Foucault‘sche Konzept der „Bio-Macht" vollzieht der Band eine Neubewertung des Werkes und auch der Rolle Italo Calvinos als „Kartograph der Dispositive".
The Best Laid Plans
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Author : Jim Leach
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-04
The Best Laid Plans written by Jim Leach and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Performing Arts categories.
The Best Laid Plans includes an accessible group of essays that will meet the needs of students and scholars in film and media studies by offering new insights into an important and neglected area in genre criticism.
A Handbook To The Reception Of Ovid
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Author : John F. Miller
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-10-31
A Handbook To The Reception Of Ovid written by John F. Miller and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid’s poetry into modern times.
The Origin Of Perspective
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Author : Hubert Damisch
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1994
The Origin Of Perspective written by Hubert Damisch and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
The second part of the book brings the historical invention of perspective into focus, discussing the experiments with mirrors made by Brunelleschi, connecting it to the history of consciousness via Jacques Lacan's definition of the "tableau" as "a configuration in which the subject as such gets its bearings.".
Literary Philosophers
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Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Literary Philosophers written by Jorge J. E. Gracia and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Contemporary Artificial Art And The Law
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Author : Gianmaria Ajani
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-09-25
Contemporary Artificial Art And The Law written by Gianmaria Ajani and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-25 with Art categories.
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an “autonomous author” urges the law to rethink authorship, originality, creativity. AI-generated artworks are in search of an author because current copyright laws offer as a solution only public domain or fragile regulatory mechanisms. During the 20th century visual artists have been posing persistent challenges to the law world: Conceptual Art favoured legal mechanisms alternative to copyright law. The case of AI-art is, however, different: for the first time the artworld is discovering the prospective of an art without human authors. Rather than preserving the status quo in the law world, policy makers should consider a reformative conception of AI in copyright law and take inspiration from innovative theories in the field of robot law, where new frames for a legal personhood of artificial agents are proposed. This would have a spill-over effect also on copyright regulations.