Killing the Moonlight : Modernism in Venice /

"As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic cliches, pr...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Scappettone, Jennifer (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Cyfres:Modernist latitudes.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=880041
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.