By Animal Poetics In Italo Calvino's Novels

The so-called "animal poetics" in Italo Calvino's novels is understandable as the theory form and poetics character which with the base point of animals that understand and percept the world by art style, experience and unconventional ideal life of person. Its main embodiments including the poetics character of direct animal images, as well as emotional and cultural connotations of animal imagery that to be of (alienation), also with the unique sense approach and mode of thinking arising from the animal perspective on life, society and even the human, nature, and the world. It is both belongs to the literature theory category, and have it's cultural mechanism and times context.Set off from zoology angle; combining with some literature and cultural theory such as narratives, allegory, carnival poetics, archetype criticism, eco-criticism and so on; through comparative literature dimensions; to the interpretation of "animal poetics" in Calvino's novels which contents poetics representation, aesthetic form, cultural and historical genealogy, and the era of enlightenment values; are the"forest road"to the kingdom of Calvino's novels.Discussed text of the "animal poetics" in Calvino's novels mainly by the following three components:Part I is an "Introduction": having summed up current domestic and abroad research of Calvino and his works on the basis with brief introduction of Calvino and his literature creation, also initial discussed the animal images and it's metaphor and symbol function.Part II is the "Text": include three chapters. The first chapter discussed the poetics representation of "animal poetics" in Calvino's novels by several aspects such as butterfly imagery, narrative perspective of animals, animal allegory and animal carnival. The second chapter explained the cultural mechanism of "animal poetics" in Calvino's novels by the literature tradition and evolutionism of nature from myth and fairy tales as well as anthropology angles such as totem, religion and witchcraft. The third chapter discussed the context of the times of "animal poetics" in Calvino's novels, including ecological threshold under criticism as animal poetry, and the theme of alienation of animal poetics also with the sense of existentialism as embodied the several aspects theme of the lonely emptiness of life and death and freedom etc.Part III is "Conclusion": Excavate the unique"animal poetics"which is an effective breakthrough of text research in Calvino's novels. Summed up the literary and cultural origins of"animal poetics"in Calvino's novels and its ecological balance and human thinking of the meaning of the metaphysical presence. Novels of fairy tales, myths, carnival and national allegory is the concentrated expression of its"animal poetics", this is as well as its unique artistic charm and a strong poetic color lies.