Scappettone Killing the Moonlight

Modernism in Venice
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53774-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Modernist Latitudes

Tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scappettone, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Venetian Modernity: A Troubled Present
1. "The Entanglement of Memory": Reciprocal Interference of Present and Past in Ruskin's Venetian Histories
2. Nearer Distances and Clearer Mysteries: Between Patches and Presence in James's "Visitable Past"
3. Adriatic Fantasies: Venetian Modernism Between Decadence
4. From Passéism to Anachronism: Material Histories in Pound's Venice
5. Fabulous Planning: Unbuilt Venices
Coda: Laguna/Lacuna
Notes
Index

Leseproben

Read an excerpt from the introduction, "Venetian Modernity: A Troubled Present"

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Scappettone is associate professor of English, creative writing, and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago and was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies for 2010–11. She is the translator and editor of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which was awarded the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/De Palchi Book Prize. Her own poetry collections include From Dame Quickly and the bilingual Thing Ode/Ode oggettuale.