Tuscan Spaces

Author : Silvia M. Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442698925

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Tuscan Spaces by Silvia M. Ross Pdf

An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. 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. Ross 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.

Author : Silvia Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442639980

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Tuscan Spaces by Silvia Ross Pdf

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.

Author : Giulio Giovannoni
Publisher : didapress
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788896080931

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Tuscany Beyond Tuscany. Rethinking the City from the Periphery by Giulio Giovannoni Pdf

Author : Dario Gaggio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107127777

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The Shaping of Tuscany by Dario Gaggio Pdf

This book shows how the seemingly immutable Tuscan landscape was largely shaped by modern conflicts over economic resources and cultural meanings.

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767917452

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Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

Author : David Michalski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137544285

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The Dialectic of Taste by David Michalski Pdf

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change.

Author : Gyan Prakash,Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400839308

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The Spaces of the Modern City by Gyan Prakash,Kevin M. Kruse Pdf

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly global perspective on the nature of the modern city. The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jiménez, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray, Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank.

Author : D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher : didapress
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788833380117

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Hidden Histories by D. Medina Lasansky Pdf

Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.

Author : Reid Bramblett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756683832

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Top 10 Florence and Tuscany by Reid Bramblett Pdf

Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK Top 10 Florence & Tuscany uses exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful travel guide in ebook format. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding out the freebies, The DK Top 10 Guides take the work out of planning any trip.

Author : Paul Niell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292766594

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Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba by Paul Niell Pdf

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana's central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana's founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authenticity, civic achievement, and social order. Paul Niell analyzes how Cubans produced heritage at the site of the symbolic ceiba tree by endowing the collective urban space of the plaza with a cultural authority that used the past to validate various place identities in the present. Niell's close examination of the extant forms of the 1754 and 1828 civic monuments, which include academic history paintings, neoclassical architecture, and idealized sculpture in tandem with period documents and printed texts, reveals a "dissonance of heritage"—in other words, a lack of agreement as to the works' significance and use. He considers the implications of this dissonance with respect to a wide array of interests in late colonial Havana, showing how heritage as a dominant cultural discourse was used to manage and even disinherit certain sectors of the colonial population.

Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864180

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Words in Space and Time by Tomasz Kamusella Pdf

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

Author : Sam Kubba
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780071428910

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Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors by Sam Kubba Pdf

* A single-source, on-the-job resource to help interior designers and architects solve any space planning problem * Simplifies code compliance (International Building Code, ADA, and more) * Includes hundreds of plans and details for every building type * Checklists and guidelines throughout

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
ISBN : CUB:U183015816343

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The National Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : English literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112109516242

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The New English Review Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pier Francesco Listri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000085279242

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The Tuscan Lifestyle by Pier Francesco Listri Pdf

This book represents a unique view of Tuscany. It does not dwell on the region's famous products, its eventful and colorful history, the extravagant art works on breath-taking landscape. What it doe s seek to do is to connect these and other traits in order to understand what is derived from them today, namely a style of life.