Description |
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages : illustrations). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Includes some text in Italian. |
Subject |
Italian literature -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History and criticism.
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Italian literature. |
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Italy -- Tuscany. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Tuscany (Italy) -- In literature.
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442639980 |
ISBN |
9781442698918 (electronic book) |
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1442698918 (electronic book) |
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9781442639980 (bound) |
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