ID Scheda #9692

Sezione
Critica
Tipo di risorsa
articolo su periodico culturale
Autore
Moosavinia, Sayyed Rahim; Baji, Masome
Titolo
Cities as Verbal Reconstructions. The Textual Classifications of Frames in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
Titolo del periodico
Indian Review of World Literature in English
Specifiche del periodico
13
Editore
Indian Institute of English Studies
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Pagine
8-13
Lingua
inglese
Paese di pubblicazione
India
Abstract
Though the classical narratology gives major priority to the temporal dimension of the literary text, the postclassical interdisciplinary approaches towards narrative examine space in relations to society, ethnicity, race and gender. None of these conflicting literary theories have studied the medium through which space is reconstructed in fiction. Accordingly, the present research elucidates the ways readers are involved in the textual structure of the abstract spaces of the fifty-five cities depicted in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to argue that this structure of space is well defined in this novel through Ruth Ronen's classifications of frames. As the classifications of Gabriel Zoran's vertical textual reconstruction of space, the correlation between space and language is explained in terms of degrees of immediacy and factuality, modes of expressing and frame properties. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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