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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... objects from nature , hardly redeems him . The narrator says of his figures , " [ T ] heir imitative felicity was revolting " ; the artist himself , with his gift for mimicry , seems " little more than an exceptionally intelligent ape ...
... object to a mature woman awakened through art to self - knowledge " ( 38 ) . Nevertheless , it is in Cecil's eyes alone that Lucy has ever been " a purely aesthetic object , " and her awakening to self - knowledge comes not only through ...
... object of vision , Aschenbach attempts to embellish his own aesthetic surface . Earlier , on his way to Venice , he had been repelled by the sight of a " young - old " man : " Aschenbach's eye dwelt on him , and he was shocked to see ...
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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 |