Main entry:

Scappettone, Jennifer, author.

Title & Author:

Killing the moonlight : modernism in Venice / Jennifer Scappettone.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xvi, 440 pages, 20 color plates : some color illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm.

Series:

Modernist latitudes

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-413) and index.
1 "The Entanglement of Memory": Reciprocal Interference of Present and Past in Ruskin's Venetian Histories 43 -- 2 Nearer Distances and Clearer Mysteries: Between Patches and Presence in James's "Visitable Past" 87 -- 3 Adriatic Fantasies: Venetian Modernism Between Decadence, Futurism, and the World Wars 137 -- 4 From Passéism to Anachronism: Material Histories in Pound's Venice 196 -- 5 Fabulous Planning: Unbuilt Venices 260.

Summary:

Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover-- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.

ISBN:

9780231164320 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231164327 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780231164337
0231164335
(ebook)
9780231537742

Subject:

Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism.
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Littérature 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literatur
Kunst
Moderne
Venedig
Litteratur historia.
Modernism (litteratur)
Modernism.
Venice (Italy) In literature History.
Venice (Italy) In art History.
Italy Venice.
Italien Venedig.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Modernist latitudes.

Modernism in Venice

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288021
Call No.: BIB 229559
Status: Available