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1 online resource (348 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas Perella shows that this connection-however real-is secondary to an archetypal encounter with noontide as a moment of existential crisis of spiritual as well as erotic dimensions. First tracing the literary presence of this image from classical and biblical antiquity to Nietzsche and other modern writers, he then analyzes the preoccupation with midday in the imagination of Italian authors from Dante to the present. When the sun is at its point of greatest strength, t. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Italian literature -- Themes, motives.
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Italian literature -- Themes, motives. |
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Italian literature. |
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Noon in literature.
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Noon in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Perella, Nicolas J. (Nicolas James), 1927- Midday in Italian literature : variations on an archetypal theme. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1979 x, 336 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691610917 |
ISBN |
9781400870677 (e-book) |
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1400870674 (e-book) |
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9780691610917 |
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9780691063898 |
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