Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds : : English Fantasies of Venice.
Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is h...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series ; v.37 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 1999. ©1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
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| Summary: | Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is hardly another place in Europe that has become so much of a palimpsest, inscribed with the fantasies, the dreams and nightmares of generations of foreigners, and this turns Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds into a particularly pertinent case study of the ways cultural difference within Europe is experienced, enacted and constructed. The essays range across five centuries - from the Renaissance to our postmodern present, from Shakespeare and his contemporary Coryate to recent novels, detective fiction and films - and, in contrast to previous studies focussing on the Grand Tour, they emphasise more recent developments and how they continue or disrupt traditional ways of perceiving - or being blind to! - Venice. |
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| ISBN: | 9004651217 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |