Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds : : English Fantasies of Venice.

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
:
Pfister, Manfred.
TeilnehmendeR:
Schaff, Barbara.
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
Physical Description:1 online resource (263 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Passion from Winterson to Coryate
  • Writing Venice: Paradoxical Signification as Connotational Feature
  • "Which is the Merchant here? And which the Jew?": The Venice of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
  • Elective Affinities: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Venice
  • William Beckford in Venice, Liminal City: The Pavilion and the Interminable Staircase
  • Venetian Views and Voices in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Braddon's The Venetians
  • Sunset City - City of the Dead: Venice and the 19th Century Apocalyptic Imagination
  • Literary Deaths in Venice
  • Venice - Site of Mutability, Transgression and Imagination
  • The Venetian Hours of Henry James
  • An Amazon in Venice: Vernon Lee's "Lady Tal"
  • Theatre as Festive Play: Max Reinhardt's Production of The Merchant of Venice in Venice
  • Tourists Lost in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers
  • 'Dream Factories': Hollywood and Venice in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now
  • Confidential Venice
  • Intertextual Venice: Blood and Crime and Death Renewed in Two Contemporary Novels
  • Robert Coover's Pinocchio in Venice: An Anatomy of a Talking Book
  • INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGEN ZUR ALLGEMEINEN UND VERGLEICHENDEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT.

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