Painting with words, writing with pictures
Subtitle: word and image in the work of Italo Calvino
By: Franco Ricci.
Series: Toronto Italian studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Calvino, Italo -- Criticism and interpretation.; Calvino, Italo -- Critique et interprétation.
Description: "Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main theme is the difficult interface between word and image that Calvino struggled with throughout his career, the act of perception that rendered visible that which was invisible and transformed what was seen into what is read.

Ricci holds that Calvino's narrative has an 'imagocentric' program and that his literary strategy is 'ekphrastic,' i.e., it is characterized by literary description of visual representation, real or imaginary. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will interest not only scholars of literature but also those who work with the visual arts and with information technology."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-335) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 From Word to Image 15; title: Overreaching Boundaries 16; title: Of Fantasy Images and Visual Patterns 20; title: Imagism: New Ways of Seeing 34; title: Real Images and Fantasy Imaginings 43; title: Personal Re-memberings 58; title: 2 From Image to Word 69; title: A Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 70; title: Cosmicomics 77; title: 'L'origine degli Uccelli' 86; title: Visually Potentializing Literature 106; title: St George and St Jerome 113; title: 3 Variations on a Theme 123; title: Vision and the Validity of Understanding 124; title: Writing as Description 131; title: Writing as Eskesis 145; title: 4 Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 157; title: Mapping the Seeable and Sayable 159; title: Mapping Internal Geography 167; title: If on a winter's night a travellerfollowing a map; title: discovers a painter's studio 174; title: Squaring the Text 185; title: 5 The World's Seamless Web 191; title: Writing with Art 192; title: Thinking of Art 200; title: Stealing from Art 212; title: 6 Painted Stories and Novel Spaces 220; title: Writing and Painting 222; title: Valerio Adami 229; title: Domenico Gnoli 248; title: Giorgio De Chirico City 261; title: Conclusion: A New Point of Departure 276.