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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... time of his earliest visits to the fabled city , was uneasily aware of " the risk of stamping poor Venice beyond repair as the supreme bugbear of literature " ( Italian Hours 54 ) . A contemporary American poet , James Wright , warns in ...
... Italian Hours to " the sad - eyed old witch of Venice " ( 72 ) call Juliana irresistibly to mind . According to the narrator's confederate , Mrs. Prest , both aunt and niece " have the reputation of witches " ( 280 ) , and the narrator ...
... Italian Hours ( James ) , 10 , 21-22 , 22-23 , 67 , 113 , 118 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 122-23 , 123 , 126 , 126-27 , 127 , 140 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 149 , 194 , 202 , 249 , 254 , 259 Italian Journey ( Goethe ) , 122 , 128 , 191 , 200 Italy ...
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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 |