Storied Cities (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
328
Utgivningsdatum
1993-12-01
Förlag
Praeger Publishers Inc
Illustratör/Fotograf
index bibliography
Illustrationer
bibliography, index
Dimensioner
243 x 163 x 30 mm
Vikt
686 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISSN
0738-9345
ISBN
9780313287176

Storied Cities

Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome

av Michael Ross
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1993-12-01
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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. The analysis points to Florence frequently being depicted in terms of binary oppositions, including Hebraism versus Hellenism, past versus present, stasis versus movement, and light versus darkness. Venetian narratives are commonly infused with motifs relating to dream and unreality, obsession, voyeurism, isolation, melancholia, and death. History is a controlling metaphor for Roman fiction and poetry, combined with the motif of change and, especially, fall from innocence to experience. Ross shows how writers have self-consciously built on the literary conventions set earlier and anticipates that these cities will remain natural loci for continued post-modernist experiment. In a wider theoretical framework, he examines this writing identified with place for the light it sheds on the issue of the importance of setting in literature.
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MICHAEL L. ROSS is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His academic specialty is nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and Robert Browning, D.H. Lawrence, and George Orwell appear frequently as subjects of his published literary criticism.

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Introduction: A Tale of Three Cities Florence The Etrurian Athens Robert Browning's Dialectical City A Blind Worship of Clashing Deities: Romola Agonistes Madonnas of the Past and Future: Howells and James A Room with a View: A Sense of Deities Reconciled The Extreme South of the Lily's Flowering: Aaron's Rod A Great Tradition Travestied: Fidelman in Florence Venice This Most Improbable of Cities "The Fair Frailty": Prison and Abyss Henry James's Venetian Curiosity-Shop L.P. Hartley's Islands of Identity Glass Menageries: The Venice of Hecht and Malamud Rome City of the Soul Juxtaposition: Browning and Clough Pearls and Carbuncles: The Marble Faun A Large Capacity for Ruin: Roderick Hudson and The Portrait of a Lady Brief Roman Candles: Wharton, Huxley and Malamud Story's End Works Cited

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