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Tuscan spaces : literary constructions of place /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Silvia, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2010
Colección:Toronto Italian studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The country and the city: vertigo and legendary psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany
  • Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: the Materassi sisters at the window
  • Vasco Pratolini's Florentine spaces of exclusion
  • The Stendhal syndrome, or the horror of being foreign in Florence
  • 'Going native': Tuscan houses and Italian others in contemporary American travel writing
  • The Tuscan countryside: nature and the (non) domestic in Elena Giannini Belotti.