G. Lerner

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics

The Painter as Writer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program.

Produktdetails

• Italian and Italian American Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-39064-5
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 397g
• ISBN-13: 9780230390645
• ISBN-10: 0230390641
• Artikelnr.: 35482575

Autorenporträt

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner is an assistant professor of Italian at Franklin & Marshall College.

Inhaltsangabe

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics Carlo Levi's New Humanism The Magic of Painting in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli L'Orologio: The Challenge of Time Portraits of the South in Le parole sono pietreand Tutto il miele è finito Quaderno a cancelli: The Space of Memory

Rezensionen

"Lerner's book on Carlo Levi has a great many merits, not least the attention she gives to his much neglected text Quaderno a cancelli." - David Ward, professor of Italian Studies, Wellesley College