Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and RomeBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 310 oldal The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A wealth of writing on each is examined in fiction and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries mainly by British and American authors. Included are works by Robert Browning on Florence and Rome; George Eliot, W.D. Howells, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence on Florence; Charles Dickens, Thomas Mann, L.P. Hartley, and Anthony Hecht on Venice; Arthur Hugh Clough, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, and Aldous Huxley on Rome; and Henry James and Bernard Malamud on Florence, Venice, and Rome. |
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... Aaron's Rod " Over Romola he shook his head , " reports Jessie Chambers of her girlhood friend D. H. Lawrence ( 98 ) . In Aaron's Rod ( 1922 ) , Lawrence was to produce a portrait of Florence that would have made George Eliot's head ...
... Aaron's Rod . There , civil disruption is a sign ( to reverse Eliot's positivist formula ) not of struggling order but of encroaching chaos . For Lawrence , the influence of Savonarola himself , that " hot coal quenched ... Aaron's Rod 93.
... Rod an exchange of idols is managed . The glistening David gets lowered from its pedestal , to have its orgasm elsewhere ; a statue of dark Pharaoh gets erected in its place . The old Florentine ideals - intellectual grasp ... Aaron's Rod 99.
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A Tale of Three Cities | 1 |
The Etrurian Athens | 17 |
Robert Brownings Dialectical City | 29 |
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Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome Michael Ross Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1994 |