{"product_id":"tuscan-spaces-literary-constructions-of-space-paperback-softback-9781487526269","title":"Tuscan Spaces; Literary Constructions of Space (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487526269","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTuscan Spaces\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary Constructions of Space\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSilvia M. Ross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487526269\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;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.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Elisabetta Tesser (Studies in Travel Writing vol 16:02:2012)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In \u003cem\u003eTuscan Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoss uses the works of writers such as Federigo Tozzi, Aldo Palazzeschi, Vasco Pratolini, and Elena Gianini Belotti, to seek out alternative visions of Tuscan space and emphasizes that each author fashions the region in a manner which reflects their personal poetics, background, and experiences. Theories of cultural geography, space, travel, and narrative contribute to Ross's consideration of the dualisms commonly employed in writings about Tuscany, such as country\/city, nature\/culture, female\/male, and self\/other, all of which are in turn affected by her interrogation of the local\/foreign opposition that underlies the study as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ctable width='\"530\"' border='\"0\"'\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd width='\"481\"' height='\"34\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd width='\"24\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003eiv\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"36\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003ev\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"41\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e1\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"54\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e1. The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia\u003cbr\u003e in Tozzi's Tuscany \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"37\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e2. Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e78\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"39\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e3. Vasco Pratolini's Florentine Spaces of Exclusion\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e119\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"44\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e4. The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e162\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"58\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e5. 'Going Native': Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e American Travel Writing \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e219\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"58\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003e6. The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in \u003cbr\u003e Elena Gianini Belotti \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e260\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd height='\"36\"' valign='\"top\"'\u003eAfterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e298\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd valign='\"top\"'\u003e307\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595744506136,"sku":"9781487526269","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tuscan-spaces-literary-constructions-of-space-paperback-softback-9781487526269","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}