What does the growing interest of literary criticism towards the representation of nature and its ethical implications tell us? In which folds of narrative, poetic or cinematographic discourse do the manifestations of a continuously renewed sensitivity for the contradictions of progress, for the precarious coexistence between human, animal and plant agents lie? And what kind of relationships can there be between the semantics of places and landscapes, expressed in a fictional world, and eco-criticism? Sixteen essays suspended between 'text' analysis and theory of criticism are solicited and collected by Nicola Turi, in an attempt to answer these and other questions affecting the function and orientations of contemporary criticism, its ability to give back the forms of artistic language, and at the same time its recurring temptation to confront, as Calvino's Bradamante would say, with the «life behind it that pushes and disarranges all the leaves of the book».
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1920-6503
Book Title
Ecosistemi letterari
Book Subtitle
Luoghi e paesaggi nella finzione novecentesca
Editors
Nicola Turi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
324
Publication Year
2016
Copyright Information
© 2016 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-993-1
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-992-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-993-1
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-994-8
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-960-6
Series Title
Moderna/Comparata
Series ISSN
2704-5641
Series E-ISSN
2704-565X