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Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm
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 exten...
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Women Screenwriters
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.
The Author in Criticism
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 (...
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Italo Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm
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 ...
