Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in an Age of Urban Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780415880381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 284 str.

Letizia Modena

Opis

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of 'Invisible Cities'.

Spis treści

Introduction  1: The Inner City of the Imagination: Utopia and the Ethical Charge of Fiction  2: Retroterra: Urban Planners, Architects, and the City in Crisis  3: Memos for the City of the Next Millennium: Invisible Cities as Embodiment of Urban Renewal  4: Architectures of Lightness  Epilogue

O autorze

Letizia Modena is Assistant Professor of Italian at Villanova University.