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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... palace as " their golden opportunity " ( 66 ) , but their bargain embroils them in an intrigue that blights their marriage with a Midas touch . " Caveat emptor " is a common moral of Venetian stories . On this score , too , Venice ...
... palace : It was quite a walk , by mysterious staircases and corridors , from Mrs. General's apartment - hoodwinked by a narrow side street with a low gloomy bridge in it , and dungeon - like opposite tenements , their walls besmeared ...
... palace : " Like eyes , the windows of the palace stared back at me " " ( 282 ) . It is at this peak of visual tension that he glimpses in one of the windows the talismanic wand which gives the story its title . Although he " bolts " in ...
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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 |