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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... true of mountains and forests is equally true of churches , palaces , and canals , a fact of much moment for our discussion of Italian cities . Indeed , as will appear , each of the three famous cities functions as a transmitted ...
... true . Do you believe it— ? " " Yes , " said Levison unwillingly . " That may be true as well . You have no doubt , like most of us , got a complex nature which— " CRASH ! There intervened one awful minute of pure shock , when the soul ...
... true face - at least true for art . ( 111 ) Little wonder if he moans , in a speech closely recalling Theobald's dying lament , " I'm a time - ravaged man , horrible curse on an artist " " ( 100 ) . He , too , has grown so obsessed with ...
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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 |