Papers by Tania Parkalian
The present paper aims to critically address Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler re... more The present paper aims to critically address Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler regarding how he had written this novel while having a great attention to Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from his outstanding volume of poems New Hampshire, concerning the three words of life, duty and death. There are many proofs that the very title of the novel is drawn from the poem under consideration by Frost; however, there are other parts in the novel, regarding its style, that the traces of “Stopping by Woods” are obvious in them. A postmodern work, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, was written by Calvino in 1979 and two years later was translated into English by William Weaver. An experimental novel, which addresses ‘You’ to be its protagonist is written in twelve chapters, each one divided to two sections, which the primary one, written in the second person, deals with the process of reading and the subsequent section owning its own subtitle is considered as a postmodern short story. “Stopping by Woods in a Snowy Evening,” written by 1961 poet laureate of Vernon, takes account of four stanzas in iambic meter and imagery plays a significant in it.
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Italo Calvino, Robert Frost, Pastiche, Metacommentary, Imagery, Life, Duty, Death.
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Keywords:
Italo Calvino, Robert Frost, Pastiche, Metacommentary, Imagery, Life, Duty, Death.
Keywords:
Italo Calvino, Robert Frost, Pastiche, Metacommentary, Imagery, Life, Duty, Death.