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Antonello, Pierpaolo, and Florian Mussgnug, Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 2009), Italian modernities <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rhul/detail.action?docID=1055603>
Barker, Francis, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen, Postmodernism and the Re-Reading of Modernity (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992)
Bertens, Hans, The Idea of the Postmodern (London: Routledge, 1995)
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Blisset, Luther, Q (Turin: Einaudi, 1999)
Blissett, Luther, Q (London: Arrow, 2004)
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Boscolo, Claudia, ‘The Idea of Epic and New Italian Epic’, Journal of Romance Studies, 10.1 (2010), 19–35 <https://doi.org/10.3167/jrs.2010.100103>
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Brooker, Peter, Modernism / Postmodernism (London: Longman, 1992)
Caesar, Michael, Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics, and the Work of Fiction (Malden, Mass: Polity Press, 1999), Key contemporary thinkers
Caesar, Michael, and Peter Hainsworth, Writers & Society in Contemporary Italy: A Collection of Essays (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1984)
Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities (London: Vintage, 1997)
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———, Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988), The Charles Eliot Norton lectures
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Cannon, JoAnn, Italo Calvino: Writer and Critic (Ravenna: Longo, 1981), L’interprete
———, Postmodern Italian Fiction: The Crisis of Reason in Calvino, Eco, Sciascia, Malerba (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989)
———, Postmodern Italian Fiction: The Crisis of Reason in Calvino, Eco, Sciascia, Malerba (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989)
Chimenti, Dimitri, ‘Unidentified Narrative Objects: Notes for a Rhetorical Typology’, Journal of Romance Studies, 10.1 (2010), 37–49 <https://doi.org/10.3167/jrs.2010.100104>
Cohan, Steven, and Linda M. Shires, Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction (New York: Routledge, 1988), New accents
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Connor, Steven, The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Cambridge companions to literature The Cambridge companion to postmodernism <https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521640520>
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Eagleton, Terry, Literary Theory: An Introduction, 2nd ed (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
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Eco, Umberto, Il Nome Della Rosa, II edizione Grandi Tascabili Bompiani (V edizione riveduta e corretta) novembre 2014 (Milano [Milan, Italy]: Bompiani, 2014)
———, Reflections on the Name of the Rose (London: Secker & Warburg, 1985)
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Farronato, Cristina, Eco’s Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), Toronto Italian studies
Forchetti, Franco, Il Segno E La Rosa: I Segreti Della Narrativa Di Umberto Eco (Roma: Castelvecchi, 2005), Contatti
Gabriele, Tommasina, Italo Calvino: Eros and Language (Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994)
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Hume, Kathryn, Calvino’s Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992)
———, ‘Sensuality and the Senses in Calvino’s Fiction’, MLN, 107.1 (1992) <https://doi.org/10.2307/2904680>
Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (New York: Routledge, 1988)
———, The Politics of Postmodernism (London: Routledge, 1989), New accents
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Lodge, David, and Nigel Wood, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, 3rd ed (Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2008)
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Markey, Constance, Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism (Gainesville, Fla: University Press of Florida, 1999), Crosscurrents
McLaughlin, Martin, Italo Calvino (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Writers of Italy
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Wales, Katie, A Dictionary of Stylistics, 3rd ed (Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2011), Studies in language and linguistics <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rhul/detail.action?docID=1782377>
Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 1988), New accents
———, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 1993), New accents <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rhul/detail.action?docID=165759>
Weiss, Beno, Understanding Italo Calvino (University of South Carolina Press, 1993)
Woods, Tim, Beginning Postmodernism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999), Beginnings