Essays Tagged: "Italo Calvino"

Reconstruction of Ideologies from Self Consciousness in Italo Calvino's The Non-existent Knight and Yu Wah's On the Road at Eighteen

Italo Calvino's The Non-existent Knight and Yu Wah's On the Road at Eighteen are both written in the ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Marcia and Calvino: Great Minds Think Alike?

When reading Italo Calvino's Nonexistent Knight, it is easy to consider that he may have based his characters on ...

(4 pages) 33 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Commentery on italo calvino

Italo Calvino ExcerptFrom "If on a winter's night a traveller"... I'm speaking to you two, a fairly ...

(4 pages) 26 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Bradamante as a Wish Fulfillment Fantasy in Italo Calvino's Nonexistent Knight

The central characters introduced in Italo Calvino’s novella, The Nonexistent Knight, are curiously diverse, yet each readily identi ... t told from her narrative was pure fabrication on the good Sister’s behalf.Works CitedCalvino, Italo. The Nonexistent Knight. Harcourt Brace. 1962"Medieval Life." 2000. 13 Nov. 2007..Veld, Fran&c ...

(6 pages) 5170 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Zazie in the Metro- Raymond Queneau

n in his co-founding in 1960. Its members, including Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, Harry Mathews, Italo Calvino, and Duchamp, pursued with dizzying enthusiasm the imbrications of literature with mat ...

(2 pages) 1377 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Desire in Calvino

lvino presents the Moon as a sexual object of desire by giving her female specific descriptions.[3: Italo Calvino, Distance of the Moon, 1 ][4: Ibid, 2]After the narrator Q shifted his fascination awa ...

(9 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature