Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics, 2012
The Painter as Writer
Italian and Italian American Studies Series

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program.

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics Carlo Levi's New Humanism The Magic of Painting in Cristo si è fermato a Eboli L'Orologio: The Challenge of Time Portraits of the South in Le parole sono pietreand Tutto il miele è finito Quaderno a cancelli: The Space of Memory

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner is an assistant professor of Italian at Franklin & Marshall College.