Silvia M Ross

Tuscan Spaces

Literary Constructions of Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781442639980
• ISBN-10: 1442639989
• Artikelnr.: 28889650

Autorenporträt

Silvia Ross is a senior lecturer in the Department of Italian at University College Cork.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgementsiv
List of Illustrations v
Introduction1
1. The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia
in Tozzi's Tuscany 31
2. Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the
Window78
3. Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion119
4. The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence162
5. 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary
American Travel Writing 219
6. The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in
Elena Gianini Belotti 260
Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity298
Works Cited307