Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of Space

by Silvia M. Ross

Overview

In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487526269
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Series:	Toronto Italian Studies Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Silvia Ross is a senior lecturer in the Department of Italian at University College Cork.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany

2. Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window

3. Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion

4. The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence

5. 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing

6. The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti

Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity

Works Cited

What People are Saying About This

Jonathan White

'Silvia Ross's subtly delineated study shows how much more varied Tuscany and Tuscans themselves prove to be when treated by writers with a profound grasp of the language and culture. Ross's comparative presentation of major Tuscan and other Italian authors who have treated the region presents a bracing antidote to platitudes about (often primitivized) locals written by "real-estate-style" travel writers.'

Editorial Reviews

'This book presents readers with a number of innovative representations of the region... A well written and interesting book that provides historical context and geographical specificity to a subject that has long engaged writers, directors, tourists, and literary theorists.'

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