Tuscan Spaces : : Literary Constructions of Space / / Silvia M. Ross.

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• VerfasserIn: Ross, Silvia M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.Ross uses the works of writers such as Federigo Tozzi, Aldo Palazzeschi, Vasco Pratolini, and Elena Gianini Belotti, to seek out alternative visions of Tuscan space and emphasizes that each author fashions the region in a manner which reflects their personal poetics, background, and experiences. Theories of cultural geography, space, travel, and narrative contribute to Ross's consideration of the dualisms commonly employed in writings about Tuscany, such as country/city, nature/culture, female/male, and self/other, all of which are in turn affected by her interrogation of the local/foreign opposition that underlies the study as a whole.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany -- 2. Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window -- 3. Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion -- 4. The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence -- 5. 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing -- 6. The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti -- Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index