Provoked in Venice
Author | : Mark Rudman |
Publisher | : Wesleyan |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780819563538 |
The third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.
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Author | : Mark Rudman |
Publisher | : Wesleyan |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780819563538 |
The third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel.
Author | : Mark Rudman |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0819572209 |
In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.
Author | : Marlena De Blasi |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1616202815 |
De Blasi, a chef and food writer from St. Louis, begins a whirlwind romance with a man in Venice.
Author | : Philip Kitcher |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231536038 |
Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through central concerns about how to live, explored with equal intensity by his German predecessors, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kitcher considers how Mann's, Britten's, and Visconti's treatments illuminate the tension between social and ethical values and an artist's sensitivity to beauty. Each work asks whether a life devoted to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of lasting achievements can be sustained and whether the breakdown of discipline undercuts its worth. Haunted by the prospect of his death, Aschenbach also helps us reflect on whether it is possible to achieve anything in full awareness of our finitude and in knowing our successes are always incomplete.
Author | : James H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 0520294653 |
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.
Author | : Edward Sklepowich |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504001370 |
Investigating a killing, Macintyre finds it to be a family affair As snow falls on Venice, turning the city into an elaborate gothic confection, Gaby Pindar fears for her life. Crippled by intense agoraphobia, she hasn’t left her family home in two decades, instead dedicating herself to tending to the small collection of historical trinkets that make up the family museum. When she begins receiving death threats, she begs for help from her cousin, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, whose friend Urbino Macintyre is something of an amateur sleuth. But the search takes a gruesome turn when Gaby’s sister, Olimpia, turns up dead. The contessa finds Olimpia murdered in her home, the maid kneeling above her with a bloody pair of scissors. Convinced of the maid’s innocence, Macintyre digs into the Pindar family history, discovering centuries’ worth of intrigue that have finally erupted in blood.
Author | : Suzanne Ma |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1442239379 |
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule, resolving to save enough money to provide her family with a better future. A groundbreaking work of journalism, Meet Me in Venice provides a personal, intimate account of Chinese individuals in the very act ofmigration. Suzanne Ma spent years in China and Europe to understand why Chinese people choose to immigrate to nations where they endure hardship, suspicion, manual labor and separation from their loved ones. Today all eyes are on China and its explosive economic growth. With the rise of the Chinese middle class, Chinese communities around the world are growing in size and prosperity, a development many westerners find unsettling and even threatening. Following Ye Pei’s undaunted path, this inspiring book is an engrossing read for those eager to understand contemporary China and the enormous impact of Chinese emigrants around the world.
Author | : Brander Matthews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1114 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Crowe Ransom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Editor: winter 1939-autumn 1941 J. C. Ransom.
Author | : Larry Wolff |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804739467 |
This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the Adriatic Empire of Venice was deeply concerned with exploring the economic and social dimensions of backwardness in Dalmatia, in accordance with the evolving distinction between Western Europe and Eastern Europe across the continent. It further argues that the primitivism attributed to Dalmatians by the Venetian Enlightenment was fundamental to the European intellectual discovery of the Slavs. The book begins by discussing Venetian literary perspectives on Dalmatia, notably the drama of Carlo Goldoni and the memoirs of Carlo Gozzi. It then studies the work that brought the subject of Dalmatia to the attention of the European Enlightenment: the travel account of the Paduan philosopher Alberto Fortis, which was translated from Italian into English, French, and German. The next two chapters focus on the Dalmatian inland mountain people called the Morlacchi, famous as savages throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. The Morlacchi are considered first as a concern of Venetian administration and then in relation to the problem of the noble savage, anthropologically studied and poetically celebrated. The book then describes the meeting of these administrative and philosophical discourses concerning Dalmatia during the final decades of the Venetian Republic. It concludes by assessing the legacy of the Venetian Enlightenment for later perspectives on Dalmatia and the South Slavs from Napoleonic Illyria to twentieth-century Yugoslavia.