Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042007478 ISBN 13 : 9789042007475

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 1999

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042007478
• ISBN 13: 9789042007475
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Pfister Manfred, Schaff Barbara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible