Tuscan spaces literary constructions of place /
Ross, Silvia, 1967-
Tuscan spaces literary constructions of place / Silvia Ross. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages : illustrations) - Toronto Italian studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The country and the city: vertigo and legendary psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany -- Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: the Materassi sisters at the window -- Vasco Pratolini's Florentine spaces of exclusion -- The Stendhal syndrome, or the horror of being foreign in Florence -- 'Going native': Tuscan houses and Italian others in contemporary American travel writing -- The Tuscan countryside: nature and the (non) domestic in Elena Giannini Belotti.
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.
9781442698918
Italian literature--History and criticism.--Italy--Tuscany
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Italian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PQ5902 / .T873 2010
Tuscan spaces literary constructions of place / Silvia Ross. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages : illustrations) - Toronto Italian studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The country and the city: vertigo and legendary psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany -- Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: the Materassi sisters at the window -- Vasco Pratolini's Florentine spaces of exclusion -- The Stendhal syndrome, or the horror of being foreign in Florence -- 'Going native': Tuscan houses and Italian others in contemporary American travel writing -- The Tuscan countryside: nature and the (non) domestic in Elena Giannini Belotti.
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.
9781442698918
Italian literature--History and criticism.--Italy--Tuscany
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Italian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PQ5902 / .T873 2010