Towards the river's mouth = (Verso la foce) : a critical edition /

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, feat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Celati, Gianni, 1937- (Author)
Other Authors:	Barron, Patrick, 1968- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:	Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subjects:	Celati, Gianni, > 1937- > Travel > Italy > Po River Valley. Celati, Gianni, > 1937- > Verso la foce. Celati, Gianni, > 1937- > Criticism and interpretation. Po River Valley (Italy) > Description and travel.

Table of 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 Benvegnù
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.