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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13333569 Title: The uses of literature : essays Author: Italo Calvino Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1986. ISBN/ISSN: 0151932050 9780151932054 OCLC:13333569

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The uses of literature : essays

Author:	Italo Calvino
Publisher:	San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1986.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Calvino, Italo. Uses of literature. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1986 (OCoLC)647066188
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Italo Calvino Find more information about:
ISBN:	0151932050 9780151932054
OCLC Number:	13333569
Notes:	Translation of: Una pietra sopra. "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Description:	vi, 341 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	1. Cybernetics and ghosts -- Two interviews on science and literature -- Philosophy and literature -- Literature as projection of desire -- Definitions of territories: comedy -- Definitions of territories: eroticism -- Definitions of territories: fantasy -- Cinema and the novel: problems of narrative, whom do we write for?, or the hypothetical bookshelf -- Right and wrong political uses of literature -- Levels of reality in literature -- 2. Why read the classics? -- The odysseys within the Odyssey -- Ovid and universal contiguity -- The structure of Orlando Furioso -- Candide: an essay in velocity -- The city as protagonist in Balzac -- The novel as spectacle -- Manzoni's The betrothed: the novel of ratios of power -- On Fourier, I: brief introduction to the society of love -- On Fourier, II: the controller of desires -- On Fourier, III: Envoi: A Utopia of fine dust guide to The charterhouse of Parma for the use of new readers -- Stendhal's knowledge of the "Milky Way" -- Montale's rock -- The pen in the first person -- In memory of Roland Barthes -- The bestiary of Marianne Moore -- Man, the sky, and the elephant -- Cyrano on the moon.
Other Titles:	Pietra sopra.
Responsibility:	Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh.

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