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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Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome Michael Ross. 2 The Etrurian Athens The Florence of the literary imagination , like the Florence of historical chronicle , is steeped in controversy . The motif of " contention " finds ...
Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome Michael Ross. Mary McCarthy calls " an undertone of irony , typically Florentine " ( Stones of Florence 19 ) . " The defects [ of the Florentine character ] , " says Piovene , " were the ...
... Florence 54 ) ; and Piovene observes that the stone architecture of the city " has the magic of a precision optical instrument " ( 284 ) . Symons complains of an actual overdose of visual instruction : " If we could endure so continual ...
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A Tale of Three Cities | 1 |
The Etrurian Athens | 17 |
Robert Brownings Dialectical City | 29 |
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