{"product_id":"transmedial-resonance-the-acoustic-afterlives-of-italo-calvino-9781531512682","title":"Transmedial Resonance: The Acoustic Afterlives of Italo Calvino","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy's most famous modern writer \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTransmedial Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy's most important modern writer. Since his death in 1985, Calvino's writing has served as a constant figure of inspiration for other artists, and tellingly, that inspiration has been \"more outside than inside.\" Although Calvino's reputation as a writer is immense, his influence has in fact been vastly larger \u003ci\u003eoutside \u003c\/i\u003eof literature, including in architecture, city plan-ning, community organizing, design, visual arts, video games, the performing arts, and much more. That influence is not only transmedial. It has also been \"more outside than inside\" across national boundaries, particularly in the English-speaking world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRushing thinks about Calvino's influence through the metaphor of \u003ci\u003eresonance\u003c\/i\u003e. When something resonates, he argues, it may be \"inspired\" to do so, but it does so in its own voice, singing its own song. In fact, resonance offers an entirely different way of thinking about influence and artistic reception, stressing the \u003ci\u003eenergy \u003c\/i\u003eof the inspiration rather than fidelity to the original. In keeping with that underlying sonic metaphor, Rushing looks at specifically acoustic responses to Calvino. They include Chris Cerrone's Pulitzer-nominated \"opera in headphones\" based on \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Mezzacappa's \u003ci\u003eCosmicomics \u003c\/i\u003ejazz suite, and Ashwini Ramaswamy's multimedia dance performance of \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, which combines traditional South Indian Bharatanatyam, urban breaking, and African American modern dance. These works, Rushing shows, tell the story of a very different Calvino, one who is (in Mezzacappa's words) \"nerdy and neurotic,\" playfully perverse, and profoundly political. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together sound studies with literary studies and cultural reception, \u003ci\u003eTransmedial Reso-nance \u003c\/i\u003eargues for a radical re-imagination of how we think about artistic and cultural influence, calling for a completely new understanding of this major figure of modern Italian and world literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert A. Rushing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531512682","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45229734658185,"sku":"9781531512682","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8474462f-8dce-45c8-8e0c-54a6875d0347.jpg?v=1770113043","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/transmedial-resonance-the-acoustic-afterlives-of-italo-calvino-9781531512682","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}