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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... Venice is the Venice of nightmare , filled with warning shadows , made in every respect to correspond to the dramatic appeal it makes to the eye of the new - comer . Its innocent smells are described as breathing pestilence ; its gentle ...
... Venice an omnipresent temptation . According to Piovene , " This region nurtures a self - love , a narcissism . . . a perpetual bliss in gazing at oneself in the mirror , a contentment with its own picturesqueness , a delight in making ...
... Venice " from Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman , look consciously back to the treatment of Venetian motifs in earlier literature , more especially Mann's Death in Venice . Both Hecht's poem and Malamud's story focus on the Venetian clash ...
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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 |