Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage  Paid

by Elisa Bizzotto (Volume editor)
©2019, Edited Collection, 240 Pages
English Studies

Series: Victorian and Edwardian Studies, Volume 7

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Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage is the first collection of essays in English on Italian writer Mario Praz (1896-1982), a central figure of twentieth-century culture and international literary relations. Praz’s formidable oeuvre spanned six decades and covered such topics as comparative literature, interior design, history of art and culture, collecting, interart and intermedial studies, translation, journalism, travelling and autobiography. His colossal erudition encompassed an enthusiasm for the eccentric, the interstitial, the erotic and the macabre.

This book, based on pluri- and interdisciplinary critical approaches by a variety of specialists, sheds ample light on an author who still awaits full appreciation as a unique cross-cultural ‘voice inside the scene’ of literature and art.

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Table of Contents
Introduction (Elisa Bizzotto)
Literature
Word and Image: A Comparison between Two Languages (Loretta Innocenti)
Modernism and the Baroque: Two Strange Bedfellows in Mario Praz’s Oeuvre (Laura Scuriatti)
Mario Praz: Beauty, Terror and the Artificial Man (Renzo D’Agnillo)
The Arts
Evil Eye: Mario Praz and the Superillustrated Text (Jonah Siegel)
Praz and the Camera Obscura of Memory (Angelo Maggi)
Praz’s Reception of Paolo Veronese. An Intercultural Dialogue (Sofia Magnaguagno)
Framing Likeness and Otherness: Mario Praz and Wax Portraiture (Lene Østermark-Johansen)
Forms of Auto-Biography
Unromantic Praz. Anti-Stereotyped Portraits of Cities and Places (Guido Zucconi)
A ‘Life inside my own life’: The Correspondence between Mario Praz and Vernon Lee (Stefano Evangelista)
Marius the Epicurean, Walter the Medusean: Praz’s Paterian (Self-)Fashioning (Elisa Bizzotto)
Bibliography
Index of names and subjects
Pages:
240
Year:
2019
ISBN (PAPERBACK):
9783034333443 (Active)
ISBN (EPUB):
9783034333467 (Active)
ISBN (PDF):
9783034333450 (Active)
Language:
English
Published:
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2019. 242 pp., 20 fig. col., 4 fig. b/w.

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).

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