L’India d’inverno di Carlo Levi

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dc.contributor.author	Cappello Massimiliano
dc.title	L’India d’inverno di Carlo Levi
dc.type	Book Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The paper focuses on Carlo Levi’s reportages from India (1957), in order to outline how the peculiar mixture of narrative and essay writing conveys these texts into the genre of Travel literature, as well as to reconsider a work so easily forgotten by field studies. A first recognition on the topic shows how little literature has considered the timeframe of this journey up to recent times: due to the uncertain date marked on the only Indian letter sent by Levi to his wife, critics have agreed to range it between several months and a year. The bias is subsequently taken into account as the prism to approach these texts through: in fact, despite the deliberate attempt at sketching achrony for poetical purposes, micro and macrotextual features – with an emphasis on the descriptions of wintertime – allow to place these texts in time, thus confirming the hybrid features of these proses. Through rhetorical and textual analysis, then, the paper discusses the reportages from a theoretical perspective.
dc.relation.ispartof	Italianistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.date.issued	2019-12-06
dc.dateAccepted	None
dc.dateSubmitted	None
dc.identifier.uri	http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-344-1/026
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9514
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9522
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-345-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-344-1
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
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dc.subject	Carlo Levi
dc.subject	India
dc.subject	Travel Literature
dc.subject	Rhetorics
dc.subject	Genre Studies

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L’India d’inverno di Carlo Levi

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Massimiliano Cappello Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia

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The paper focuses on Carlo Levi’s reportages from India (1957), in order to outline how the peculiar mixture of narrative and essay writing conveys these texts into the genre of Travel literature, as well as to reconsider a work so easily forgotten by field studies. A first recognition on the topic shows how little literature has considered the timeframe of this journey up to recent times: due to the uncertain date marked on the only Indian letter sent by Levi to his wife, critics have agreed to range it between several months and a year. The bias is subsequently taken into account as the prism to approach these texts through: in fact, despite the deliberate attempt at sketching achrony for poetical purposes, micro and macrotextual features – with an emphasis on the descriptions of wintertime – allow to place these texts in time, thus confirming the hybrid features of these proses. Through rhetorical and textual analysis, then, the paper discusses the reportages from a theoretical perspective.

keywords: Carlo Levi. India. Travel Literature. Rhetorics. Genre Studies.

Language: it

Published: Dec. 6, 2019
permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-344-1/026

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