Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and RomeBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 310 頁 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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... imagination . Whenever I go to a place and this starts happening , it is as though I develop another sense , or else all my other senses become more acute - I see , hear , smell things more vividly and strongly , and there is an ...
... imagination provides the one possible stay against time's universal deluge . Venice becomes there the imagination's symbolic capital , a magic breakwater against the relentless , cosmic down - drift . Such a willed coalescence of the ...
... imagination that sets in perspective her other , equally Roman experience of stifling enclosure . Affecting her sense of time as well as space , the influence of Rome operates so as to magnify Isabel's reach and resources . " From the ...
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A Tale of Three Cities | 1 |
The Etrurian Athens | 17 |
Robert Brownings Dialectical City | 29 |
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