Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of VeniceManfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff Rodopi, 1999 - Počet stran: 255 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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... later , we found it recently converted into an academic centre . And again , these cells and halls and the seclusion of the place proved to be as adaptable to the uses of scholars as to those of the madmen and the monks in previous ...
... later , we found it recently converted into an academic centre . And again , these cells and halls and the seclusion of the place proved to be as adaptable to the uses of scholars as to those of the madmen and the monks in previous ...
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... later , Piozzi forged an even more fanciful etymological link between Venice and its prostitutes : she hears the name of the city in the cry " Veni etiam " , with which these " permitted professors of the inveigling arts " allure their ...
... later , Piozzi forged an even more fanciful etymological link between Venice and its prostitutes : she hears the name of the city in the cry " Veni etiam " , with which these " permitted professors of the inveigling arts " allure their ...
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... later , John Evelyn grants us a glimpse of the same Margarita Emiliana as the builder and foundress of a convent , and we know already how Venetian convents , 42 39 For Ascham cf. Pfister 1996 , 78f ; for Thomas Nashe cf. Steane 1972 ...
... later , John Evelyn grants us a glimpse of the same Margarita Emiliana as the builder and foundress of a convent , and we know already how Venetian convents , 42 39 For Ascham cf. Pfister 1996 , 78f ; for Thomas Nashe cf. Steane 1972 ...
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... later ) - on the memory . He shuffles off , broken , beaten , and ill - sadder and wearier than anyone else in Venice or Belmont - at the end of Act Four , never to return . But , while the triumph and victory belong unequivocally to ...
... later ) - on the memory . He shuffles off , broken , beaten , and ill - sadder and wearier than anyone else in Venice or Belmont - at the end of Act Four , never to return . But , while the triumph and victory belong unequivocally to ...
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Venetian Views, Venetian Blinds: English Fantasies of Venice Manfred Pfister,Barbara Schaff Náhled není k dispozici. - 1999 |
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Strana 121 - ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea.
Strana 105 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Strana 121 - Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed...
Strana 56 - I hate him, for he is a Christian. But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation; and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him.
Strana 108 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Strana 49 - Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Strana 50 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Strana 118 - A river girds the city west and south, The main north channel of a broad lagoon, Regurging with the salt tides from the mouth; Waste marshes shine and glister to the moon For leagues, then moorland black, then stony ridges; Great piers and causeways, many noble bridges, Connect the town and islet suburbs strewn.
Strana 106 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Strana 86 - But raise your eyes, and behold a second flight of stairs still higher, on which again Piranesi is perceived, by this time standing on the very brink of the abyss.