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Venetian views, Venetian blinds : English fantasies of Venice / edited by Manfred Pfister and Barbara Schaff.

Title
Venetian views, Venetian blinds : English fantasies of Venice / edited by Manfred Pfister and Barbara Schaff.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Pfister, Manfred
  • Schaff, Barbara
  • Tanner, Tony
Description
vi, 255 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 37
Uniform Title
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 37.
Alternative Title
English fantasies of Venice
Subject
  • English literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Venice (Italy) > In literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Festschriften
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 'The passion' from Winterson to Coryate / Manfred Pfister -- Writing Venice : paradoxical signification as connotational feature / Andreas Mahler -- "Which is the merchant here? And which is the Jew?" : The Venice of Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' / Tony Tanner -- Elective affinities : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in Venice / Jürgen Schlaeger.
  • William Beckford in Venice, Liminal City : The pavilion and the interminable staircase / Elinor Shaffer -- Venetian views and voices in Radcliffe's 'The mysteries of Udolpho' and Braddon's 'The Venetians' / Barbara Schaff -- Sunset city -- city of the dead : Venice and the 19th century apocalyptic imagination / Werner von Koppenfels -- Literary deaths in Venice / Sergio Perosa.
  • Venice -- site of mutability, transgression and imagination / Elisabeth Bronfen -- The Venetian hours of Henry James / Michael Gorra -- An Amazon in Venice : Vernon Lee's 'Lady Tal' / Ina Schabert -- Theatre as festive play : Max Reinhardt's production of 'The Merchant of Venice' in Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte.
  • Tourists lost in Venice : Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't look now' and Ian McEwan's 'The comfort of strangers' / Virginia Richter -- 'Dream factories' : Hollywood and Venice in Nicholas Roeg's 'Don't look now' / Sabine Schülting -- Confidential Venice / Indira Ghose -- Intertextual Venice : blood and crime and death renewed in two contemporary novels / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- Robert Coover's 'Pinocchio in Venice' : an anatomy of a talking book / Judith Seaboyer.
ISBN
9042007575
OCLC
  • 43067691
  • SCSB-11160356
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library