Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of VeniceManfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff Rodopi, 1999 - 255 páginas Half a millennium of English and American fantasies of Venice: this collection of essays by leading critics in the field explores the continued and continuing fascination of travellers, writers, artists, theatre workers and film makers with the amphibious and ambiguous city in the lagoon. There is hardly another place in Europe that has become so much of a palimpsest, inscribed with the fantasies, the dreams and nightmares of generations of foreigners, and this turns Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds into a particularly pertinent case study of the ways cultural difference within Europe is experienced, enacted and constructed. The essays range across five centuries - from the Renaissance to our postmodern present, from Shakespeare and his contemporary Coryate to recent novels, detective fiction and films - and, in contrast to previous studies focussing on the Grand Tour, they emphasise more recent developments and how they continue or disrupt traditional ways of perceiving - or being blind to! - Venice. |
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... Ruskin to Proust , proved to be the most significant point of departure and the most frequent point of reference in all the contributions to this volume . This in itself has turned our project , quite unwittingly , into one continued ...
... Ruskin to Proust , proved to be the most significant point of departure and the most frequent point of reference in all the contributions to this volume . This in itself has turned our project , quite unwittingly , into one continued ...
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... Ruskin's Venice and focusing on cases that help to illuminate both continuities in , and disruptions of , traditional ways of perceiving , constructing and performing Venice . Particular emphasis is given to more recent and popular ...
... Ruskin's Venice and focusing on cases that help to illuminate both continuities in , and disruptions of , traditional ways of perceiving , constructing and performing Venice . Particular emphasis is given to more recent and popular ...
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... Ruskin , however , who first portrayed the decadent Venice which fin de siecle literature would excessively deploy . For Henry James , Venice as sepulchre is an appropriate setting for death which is inescapable . Perosa gives a general ...
... Ruskin , however , who first portrayed the decadent Venice which fin de siecle literature would excessively deploy . For Henry James , Venice as sepulchre is an appropriate setting for death which is inescapable . Perosa gives a general ...
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... Ruskin and Venice . London 1981 . Corbineau - Hoffmann , Angelika : Paradoxie der Fiktion . Lilerarische Venedig - Bilder 1797- 1984. Berlin 1993 . Cosgrave , Denis : " The Myth and the Stones of Venice " . Journal of Historical ...
... Ruskin and Venice . London 1981 . Corbineau - Hoffmann , Angelika : Paradoxie der Fiktion . Lilerarische Venedig - Bilder 1797- 1984. Berlin 1993 . Cosgrave , Denis : " The Myth and the Stones of Venice " . Journal of Historical ...
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... Ruskin and St. Mark's . London 1984 . Wilson , Milton : " Travellers ' Venice : Some Images for Byron and Shelley . " In : University of Toronto Quarterly 43 ( 1974 ) , 93-120 . The Passion from Winterson to Coryate 1. Venice Recycled ...
... Ruskin and St. Mark's . London 1984 . Wilson , Milton : " Travellers ' Venice : Some Images for Byron and Shelley . " In : University of Toronto Quarterly 43 ( 1974 ) , 93-120 . The Passion from Winterson to Coryate 1. Venice Recycled ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
aesthetic Antonio artistic Bassanio Baxter beauty Beckford becomes Belmont blind Braddon Brunetti Byron canal carnival century character classical Hollywood cinema Collodi's Comfort of Strangers construction Coover cryptophoric culture Death in Venice decay desire Dibdin Emily English essay fantasy female fiction fin de siècle Fiordelisa gaze gender gondola Gothic Grand Tour Halsband Henry James heterotopia Ibid imagination Italian Italy John Kate Lady lagoon Laura letters literary London Look Marion Mary masquerade McEwan's Merchant of Venice Merton metaphor metonymy Milly Milly's Montoni's Mysteries of Udolpho mystery narrative narrator novel novelist palace palazzo passion performance Perosa Pfister Pinocchio Piranesi play Portia protagonist reality Reinhardt Renaissance representations of Venice role romantic ruins Ruskin scene secret sense sexual Shakespeare Shylock spectator stage story theatre theatrical Tony Tanner tourist traditional turn Venedig Venetian Venezia view of Venice vision voice William Beckford Winterson's woman writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 99 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Página 52 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 102 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 82 - Many years ago, when I was looking over Piranesi's "Antiquities of Rome," Mr. Coleridge, who was standing by, described to me a set of plates by that artist, called his "Dreams," and which record the scenery of his own visions during the delirium of a fever.
Página 45 - What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Página 112 - A river girds the city west and south, The main north channel of a broad lagoon, Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth; Waste marshes shine and glister to the moon For leagues, then moorland black, then stony ridges; Great piers and causeways, many noble bridges, Connect the town and islet suburbs strewn.
Página 100 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Página 115 - ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay ; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final...
Página 46 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
Página 82 - But raise your eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher, on which again Piranesi is perceived, by this time standing on the very brink of the abyss.
Referências a este livro
The Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary British Fiction Martin Horstkotte Visualização de excertos - 2004 |
The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory David H. J. Larmour,Diana Spencer Visualização de excertos - 2007 |