Towards the river's mouth (Verso la foce) : a critical edition / by Gianni Celati ; [edited by] Patrick Barron.
| Author/creator | Celati, Gianni |
| Other author | Barron, Patrick, 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Verso la foce. English |
| Series | Ecocritical theory and practice |
| Contents | Towards the river's mouth / Gianni Celati -- Gianni Celati's Towards the river's mouth: the experience of place between writing and photography / Marina Spunta -- Sight, language, time: to be surrounded by the world / Monica Seger -- Gianni Celati's Strada provinciale delle anime: a "silent" film about "nothing" / Rebecca West -- The posthuman imagination of Gianni Celati's cinema / Matteo Gilebbi -- Restoring the imagination of place: narrative reinhabitation and the Po Valley / Serenella Iovino -- Forms of impegno in Towards the river's mouth / Michele Ronchi Stefanati -- Witnessing the Po River: disorientation and estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati / Damiano Benvegnáu -- A tale of two Giannis: writing as rememoration / Thomas Harrison -- Walking in the open enchanted by the overheard: two reflections on Towards the river's mouth / Massimo Rizzante -- Introduction to paesology / Franco Arminio. |
| Abstract | "Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. This edition, translated into English for the first time, features a selection of ten essays by various scholars"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Celati, Gianni, 1937- author. Towards the river's mouth = Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498566018 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018053902 |
| ISBN | 9781498566025 (epub) |