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Rother, Sonja.

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"I think i should like to die here": Proust, Mann and James in Venice.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"I think i should like to die here": Proust, Mann and James in Venice./
Author:	Rother, Sonja.
Description:	77 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International51-01(E).
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1514741
ISBN:	9781267472762

"I think i should like to die here": Proust, Mann and James in Venice.
Rother, Sonja.

"I think i should like to die here": Proust, Mann and James in Venice. - 77 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2012.

"Venice. There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject. Every one has been there, and every one has brought back a collection of photographs. (...) There is nothing new to be said about her certainly, but the old is better than any novelty," wrote Henry James about the 'most serene Republic' in his essay on Venice in 1882, fifteen years after he first "became passionately fond of the place"(Robert Gale). He is definitely not the first, nor the last great artist to become enamored with the city; the German writer Thomas Mann and the French writer Marcel Proust also succumbed to the city's charm, and chose Venice, with "its passivity and its decadence, and its ambiguous femininity" (Ian Littlewood) as the setting for part of their works.

ISBN: 9781267472762Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

"I think i should like to die here": Proust, Mann and James in Venice.
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520 $a "Venice. There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject. Every one has been there, and every one has brought back a collection of photographs. (...) There is nothing new to be said about her certainly, but the old is better than any novelty," wrote Henry James about the 'most serene Republic' in his essay on Venice in 1882, fifteen years after he first "became passionately fond of the place"(Robert Gale). He is definitely not the first, nor the last great artist to become enamored with the city; the German writer Thomas Mann and the French writer Marcel Proust also succumbed to the city's charm, and chose Venice, with "its passivity and its decadence, and its ambiguous femininity" (Ian Littlewood) as the setting for part of their works.
520 $a The 'city in literature' and the myth(s) of Venice as a haven of intellectuals, a magnet for artists from all over the world is the topic of the first chapter of my thesis on the perceptions and impressions of the city in A la recherche du temps perdu, Tod in Venedig and The Wings of the Dove. Traditionally a city of pleasure and fantasy, the Serenissima has also long been linked with images of pestilence, decay, espionage and ultimately death. In the nineteenth century, the initial political-cultural myth of Venice gave way to a sense of mystery, a place for contemplation and romantic inspiration (Peter Mentzel). The production, diffusion and reception of these myths of Venice and their place in Proust's, Mann's and James' works are being explored further in this chapter, as well as in the three chapters on the selected works by the authors. I am interested in looking at the similarities and differences in how Venice is perceived and conceptualized by a German, a French and an English-speaking author of the same period, the late nineteenth, early twentieth century. The three works analyzed in this paper will allow the reader to catch a glimpse of Venice through the eyes of three of the most important modern authors-diaries, letters and essays by Proust, Mann and James themselves will tell us even more about their vision of Venice as a powerful metaphor for the tension between the old and the new, love and death, the place where "the deposed, the defeated, the disenchanted, the wounded, or even only the bored have seemed to find something that no other place could give" (Henry James).
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