Ecocriticism, Cultural Evolutionism, and Ecologies of Mind: Notes on Calvino’s Cosmicomics

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  • Serenella Iovino Università di Torino

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/315

Keywords:

Ecocriticism, Italo Calvino, Ecology, Darwinism in literature

Abstract

This essay sets out to interpret Calvino’s Cosmicomics in the light of Joseph Meeker’s evolutionary theory of literary genres. 

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Author Biography

Serenella Iovino, Università di Torino

SERENELLA IOVINO insegna Filosofia morale all’Università di Torino. E’ Research Fellow della Fondazione “Alexander- von-Humboldt”, e dal 2008 al 2010 è stata presidente della  European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE, www.easlce.eu). Tra i suoi libri recenti, Filosofie dell’ambiente: Natura, etica, società (Carocci, 2004), Ecologia Letteraria: Una strategia di sopravvivenza (Ed. Ambiente, 2006) e Material Ecocriticism, curato con Serpil Oppermann (in uscita con Indiana University Press).

 

Serenella Iovino teaches Moral Philosophy at the University of Torino. She is Research Fellow of the “Alexander-von-Humboldt” and has been (2008-10) president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE, www.easlce.eu). Among her latest work: Filosofie dell’ambiente: Natura, etica, società (Philosohpy of environment: Nature, ethics, society, Carocci, 2004), Ecologia Letteraria: Una strategia di sopravvivenza (Ecological literature: a strategy of survival, Ed. Ambiente, 2006) and Material Ecocriticism, edited with Serpil Oppermann (to be released for Indiana University Press).

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Published

2013-06-29

Issue

No. 2 (2013): Fatzer – Fragmente

Section

Percorsi

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