Killing the Moonlight - Modernism in Venice

Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 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

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Scappettone, Jennifer (University of Chicago) Scappettone, Scappettone Jennifer
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2016
• EAN: 9780231164337
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16433-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Modernist Latitudes; Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary Criticism