 | Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice Subjects: Venice (Italy) -- In literature -- History; Literature Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Venice (Italy) -- In art -- History; Modernism (Aesthetics); 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 Jennifer Scappettone is associate professor of English, creative writing, and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago and was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies for 2010-11. She is the translator and editor of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli , which was awarded the Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/De Palchi Book Prize. Her own poetry collections include From Dame Quickly and the bilingual Thing Ode/Ode oggettuale . |
