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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ross, Michael L. Storied cities. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994 (OCoLC)607683471 Online version: Ross, Michael L. Storied cities. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994 (OCoLC)622995806 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael L Ross |
ISBN: | 0313287171 9780313287176 |
OCLC Number: | 27897529 |
Description: | xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: A Tale of Three Cities Florence -- The Etrurian Athens Robert Browning's Dialectical City -- A Blind Worship of Clashing Deities: Romola Agonistes -- Madonnas of the Past and Future: Howells and James -- A Room with a View: A Sense of Deities Reconciled -- The Extreme South of the Lily's Flowering: Aaron's Rod -- A Great Tradition Travestied: Fidelman in Florence Venice -- This Most Improbable of Cities "The Fair Frailty": Prison and Abyss Henry James's -- Venetian Curiosity-Shop L.P. Hartley's -- Islands of Identity Glass Menageries: The Venice of Hecht and Malamud -- Rome City of the Soul Juxtaposition: Browning and Clough Pearls and Carbuncles: The Marble Faun -- A Large Capacity for Ruin: Roderick -- Hudson and The Portrait of a Lady Brief Roman Candles: Wharton, Huxley and Malamud. |
Series Title: | Contributions to the study of world literature, no 51. |
Responsibility: | Michael L. Ross. |
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Abstract:
and Henry James and Bernard Malamud on Florence, Venice, and Rome.The analysis points to Florence frequently being depicted in terms of binary oppositions, including Hebraism versus Hellenism, past versus present, stasis versus movement, and light versus darkness.
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