Haunted Museum
Jonah Siegel
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
For centuries, southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has offered writers far more than an evocative setting for important works of literature. The voyage south has been an integral part of the imagination of inspiration. Haunted Museum is a groundbreaking, in-depth look at fantasies of Italy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing on a literary tradition Jonah Siegel terms the "art romance"--the fantastic voyage south understood as the register of an ambivalent desire for art and a heightened experience of reality.
Siegel argues that Italy's allure derives not only from its celebrated promise of unique natural beauty and prized antiquities, but from the opportunity it offers writers to place themselves in relation to a web of prior accounts of travel to the native land of genius. Beginning with Goethe as the founding figure of the tradition, Haunted Museum moves from a rich reframing of literature from the first half of the nineteenth century--including new readings of works by Byron, de Staël, Barrett Browning, and others--to an ambitious examination of Henry James's well-known engagement with Europe, newly understood as a response to this important literary legacy. Readings of works by Freud, Forster, Mann, and Proust demonstrate the longevity of the tradition of looking to Italy for the representation of desires as impossible to satisfy as they are to deny.
Kundenbewertungen
Psychoanalysis, Art history, Fiction, Incest, Tourism, Work of art, Bildungsroman, Egg dance, Mourning, Novel, I Wish (manhwa), Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva, E. M. Forster, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, In Search of Lost Time, Eroticism, Sadness, Roderick Hudson, Romanticism, Bildung, Femininity, Baptistery, Petrarch, Narrative, Longevity, Helen Vendler, Literature, Evocation, Writer, Thought, Career, Italian Journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Isobel Armstrong, Childe, The Marble Faun, Suggestion, Haunting (video game), Death in Venice, Aurora Leigh, Lord Byron, Verisimilitude (fiction), Digression, Sensibility, Robert Browning, The Sense of the Past, Memoir, Ambivalence, Writing, Criticism, Genre, Walter Pater, Emblem, D. H. Lawrence, The Golden Bowl, Monteriano, Artifice, Novelist, Oedipus complex, Poetry, The Erotic, Prose, Aestheticism, The Interpretation of Dreams, Consummation, Gradiva, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Other Hand, Reminiscence, New York Edition