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Article: Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino. By ANTHONY JULIAN TANIBURRI. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 132 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8386-3984-9
Anthony Julian Tamburri's volume provides us with both a theory and paradigmatic examples of its possible critical applications. The rereading of early works by Gozzano, Palazzeschi, and Calvino in the light of the 'chronological reverse influence' exerted on them by the later works is informed by a subtle, but crucial, variant of the model of the implied reader, the 'retro-lector'. The opening chapter of the ...