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Author Perella, Nicolas J. (Nicolas James), 1927-2015, author.

Title Midday in Italian literature : variations on an archetypal theme / Nicolas J. Perella.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1979.
©1979

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Italian literature -- Themes, motives.
Italian literature -- Themes, motives.
Italian literature.
Noon in literature.
Noon in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: 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)
1400870674 (e-book)
9780691610917
9780691063898