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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... Romola's destiny is , however , crucial . If , as Bonaparte argues , Tito and Savonarola " are not only the ordinary characters of a realistic novel but also embodiments of Bacchus and Christ " ( 19 ) , then Romola's shift of allegiance ...
... Romola's fleeing steps the familiar local checkerboard of light and shadow , which she can no more elude than she can " the long shadow of herself that was not to be escaped " ( 400 ) . On the point of grasping a new , uncharted freedom ...
... Romola's mission to make the Madonna again visible and active , correcting the male divisiveness of the local power games with her large , maternal tolerance and compassion . Before that can happen , however , her own " rebirth " must ...
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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 |