Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage

ISBN-13: 9783034333443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Elisa Bizzotto

Opis

The volume investigates Mario Praz's work from intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches. It considers Praz's writings on comparative literature, design, history of art and culture, collecting, intermedial studies, translation, journalism, travelling and autobiography. It explores his enthusiasm for the eccentric, the erotic and the macabre.

Spis treści

Word and image in Praz - Praz, Modernism and the Baroque - Praz, beauty, terror and the artificial man - Praz and the evil eye - Praz and photography - Praz and Paolo Veronese - Praz and wax portraiture - Praz's travel writing - Praz's correspondence with Vernon Lee - Praz, Walter Pater and autobiography

O autorze

Elisa Bizzotto is associate professor of English Literature at Iuav University of Venice. She specialises in Victorian, late-Victorian and Modernist literatures and cultures. She has written books on the imaginary portrait genre (2001), the Pre-Raphaelite magazine The Germ (co-authored 2012) and Pater (2018).