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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... youth and his disillusioned maturity ; years earlier , he had been jilted in Florence by the girl he was courting . Along with this goes the gap between his idealistic early aspirations ( he had dreamed of becoming an architect ) and ...
... youth that Lorenzo the Magnificent sang in one of the most famous of Renaissance poems . " She was an expression of youth , of health , of beauty , and of the moral loveliness that comes from a fortunate combination of these ; but ...
... youth was no youth at all . He was an old man , beyond a doubt , with wrinkles and crow's - feet round eyes and mouth ; the dull carmine of the cheeks was rouge , the brown hair a wig " ( 17 ) . The figure , one of the personifications ...
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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 |