Silvia M Ross

Tuscan Spaces

Literary Constructions of Space

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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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781487526269
• ISBN-10: 1487526261
• Artikelnr.: 58817474

Autorenporträt

by Silvia Ross

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