Tuscan spaces literary constructions of place / Silvia Ross.

By:

Ross, Silvia, 1967- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Italian Series: Publication details: Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010.; (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010).Description: 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages : illustrations)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442698918

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PQ5902 .T873 2010

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PQ5902.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn759157315

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.

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