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| VENETIAN VIEWS, VENETIAN BLINDS.English Fantasies of Venice.(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 37) (Internationale ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) |  | Authors: Manifred Pfister, Barbara Schaff
Creator: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Category: Book
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Pages: 255
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 9042007478
EAN: 9789042007475
ASIN: 9042007478
Publication Date: January 1999
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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.
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