Italian Journeys

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857719911

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When Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells Consul to Venice, the young writer embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible impression on his life and work. Howells lived in Italy for four years, from 1861, during the pivotal and tumultuous period of Italian reunification. Italian Journeys, Howell's engrossing memoir of this time, describes his adventures across the country - from Genoa, a hotbed of nationalistic fervour and the city from which Garibaldi had led the Expedition of the Thousand only a year before; to the cultural and political powerhouse of Naples, which had only just become part of the Kingdom of Italy and from there to Rome, focus for the hopes of a fractured country. Travelling by land and sea, Howells was inspired at every turn - as much by the fevered events of the time as by the cultural and historical wealth of the country - and his beautifully-rendered portrait has become a classic of travel literature, essential for all those who, like him, have loved Italy.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOMDLP:aca9158:0001.001

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Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600038838

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Italian journeys. Author's ed by William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : Jonathan Keates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Travel
ISBN : WISC:89040662413

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Italian Journeys by Jonathan Keates Pdf

Author : James Ernest Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0984658564

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An Italian Love Story by James Ernest Shaw Pdf

"Wonderful book...a beautiful love story of a husband and a wife. I laughed, I cried, I stayed up half the night reading this amazing book." Marian S

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:HWYNYD

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Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : Dean William Howells,William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 160303305X

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Italian Journeys by Dean William Howells,William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : Laurence Simmons
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004501003

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Freud's Italian Journey by Laurence Simmons Pdf

Freud’s Italian Journey takes the psychoanalytical texts of Freud on the visual arts and literature as its objects for analysis. While the biographical figure of Freud appears throughout its pages, it is not simply a psychobiographical reading of Freud, his personal circumstances and their relationship to his texts. Rather the processes of interpretation begun by Freud are turned on Freud himself, thus eventually displacing and questioning his theoretical mastery. Freud’s Italian Journey also argues that Freud’s interest in, frequent journeys to, and obsession with Italy profoundly shaped and informed his elaboration of psychoanalysis. The volume organizes its material around the major Italian cities which were the destinations of Freud’s travel, and the sites of the artworks he examined. Freud’s many Italian holidays were crucial for his self-analysis and methodology, but it is also argued here that his papers on Italian subjects must be read as texts marked by fascination and allurement, crossed with anxiety and resistance, inscribed by memory and forgetting. Journeys to Italy heightened Freud’s sense of the visual, and it is contended that the visual dimension of Freud’s writing is crucial to an understanding of his elaboration of the theory of psychoanalysis. The relation between image and text is at the heart of Freud’s analysis of works of art as he founds a critical methodology in which the two are interrelated, image illustrating idea and idea needing to express itself in image, but neither finally resolvable into the other. Thus the argument of Freud’s Italian Journey follows as its model the famous elaboration of the fort:da game by Freud, moving back and forth between Freud’s life and his texts, between psychoanalytical and philosophical systems, between the written and the visual. This leads to the broader conclusion that Freud might provide the key to a new practice of criticism, and a new way of ‘seeing’ and understanding visual images.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026537873

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The Atlantic Monthly Library of Travel: Italian journeys, by W. D. Howells by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Howells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368838850

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Italian Journeys by W. Howells Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9783849654603

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Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells Pdf

The "Italian Journeys" of Mr. Howells date from the year 1864, when the author was still our Consul at Venice, and had just taken the first step in his long, honorable career as a man of letters by the publication of Venetian Life. His excursions lead him not only from Venice as far as Belmont, but also through many highways and byways of the Italian peninsula, one foot in sea and one on shore, by Parma and Mantua, Bologna and Genoa, Padua, Ferrara and Arqua, to the more familiar environment of Rome and Naples. Since all travelling, as the " sage observes, gives a return in proportion to the knowledge that a man brings to it, the value of a book of travel must depend upon the traveler; and no one needs to be reminded that this adventurer, in setting forth, was especially well equipped for the enterprise by his years in Venice, which gave him exceptional opportunity for study of the Italian language and literature. Day by day, he recorded the haps and hazards of his wandering, with the keenness of observation and delicacy of expression which already had gained for him the regard of thoughtful readers. His individuality is never lost; it is always his point of view that we acquire — not the pale reflex of another mind which has glanced that way before him. He keeps throughout, unblinded by prejudice and unobscured by affectation, that clear, receptive vision which makes the intelligent American traveler one of the best in the world. But over and above this he brings to bear upon all he sees a peculiar sympathy, which is the result of long association with things Italian. He is always an American, but an acclimated American. The prospect at Arqua reminds him of the Ohio hills; that at Mantua of the Middle Mississippi; yet at the Stella d'Oro, in Ferrara, he can join a group of Italian soldiers, and, winning their confidence, become one with them, for the time being, in their pleasant scheme for unifying Italy by persistent elimination of local dialects from their after-dinner talk, in favor of the common language.

Author : W. D. Howells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382137663

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Italian Journeys by W. D. Howells Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802190291

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Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Pdf

A “contagiously exuberant” celebration of Italian food, culture, and history that “will be the companion of visitors for years to come” (The Washington Post Book World). In an absorbing journey down the Italian peninsula, essayist, journalist, and fiction writer Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, offers a fascinating mixture of history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, arts, and literature, studded with local anecdotes and personal reflections. From fashionable Milan to historic Rome and primitive, brooding Calabria, Harrison reveals her country of origin in all its beauty, peculiarity, and glory. Italian Days is the story of a return home; of friends, family, and faith; and of the search for the good life that propels all of us on our journeys wherever we are. “Harrison’s wonderful journal will make you update your passport and dream of subletting your job, home, etc. . . . With Harrison, you never know with whom you’ll be lunching, or climbing down a ruin. You just know you want to be there.” —Glamour

Author : Charles Burdett
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453686

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Journeys Through Fascism by Charles Burdett Pdf

During the twenty years of Mussolini's rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini's newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New Deal. Examining these observations by writers and journalists, the author throws new light on the evolving ideology of Fascism, how it was experienced and propagated by prominent figures of the time; how the regime created a utopian vision of the Roman past and the imperial future; and how it interpreted the attractions and dangers of other totalitarian cultures. The book helps gain a better understanding of the evolving concepts of imperialism, which were at the heart of Italian Fascism, and thus shows that travel writing can offer an important contribution to historical analysis.

Author : Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Cycling
ISBN : UCAL:B3151381

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Our Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Joseph Pennell,Elizabeth Robins Pennell Pdf

"Our great ambition when we first set out on our tricycle, three years ago, was to ride from London to Rome. We did not then know exactly why we wanted to do this, nor do we now. The third part of the journey was 'ridden, written, and wrought into a work" before the second part was begun; and, moreover, when and where we could not ride with ease -- across the Channel and over the Alps, for example --- we went by boat and train. In our simplicity we thought by publishing the story of our journey, we could show the world at large, and perhaps Mr. Ruskin in particular, that the oft-regretted delights of travelling in days of coach and post-chaise, destroyed on the coming of the railroad, were once more to be had by means of tricycle or bicycle. We can only hope that critic and reader are not, like Mr. Ruskin, prepared to spend all their best "bad language" "in reprobation of bi-tri-and-4-5-6- or 7-cycles," and that the riding we found so beautiful will not to them, as to him, be a but a vain wriggling on wheels. We also thought we might prove to the average cycler how much better it is to spend spare time and money in making Pilgrims' Progresses and Sentimental Journeys than in hanging around race-tracks. However that may be, we have at length accomplished the object of our riding, and that is the great matter after all. As to future rides and records, if we make any, it is our intention to for ever keep them to ourselves, and so -- spare the public."--