Ricci (Italian, U. of Ottawa, Canada) is a proponent of the word and image paradigm long popular with literary theorists, who will also be (along with scholars ... » 

Ricci (Italian, U. of Ottawa, Canada) is a proponent of the word and image paradigm long popular with literary theorists, who will also be (along with scholars of Calvino) the audience for this study. Ricci sets out to show that Calvino's writing consciously develops and explains images, yet as he's «