Water in the Milan of Alda Merini, Daria Menicanti, and Milo De Angelis
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation is a literary, cultural, historical, and ecocritical study of the role water has played in the specific urban environment of the city of Milan. It traces an innovative cultural history of the canals of Milan and claims that the citizens feel a conflicted and visceral bond with water and that the canals are a physical monument to nostalgia. A close-reading of the work of three contemporary poets, where the use of liquid images is connected to each poet's specific vision of Milan, provides examples of that nostalgia, which stems from a desire to keep alive a type of citizenship deeply tied to the canal. This dissertation aims to define and view critically the 'mythology of water' that for many centuries has shaped the city of Milan, its geography, its culture and its literature.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Ferrando, Serena |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French and Italian Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954- |
| Primary advisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Thesis advisor | Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Thesis advisor | Harrison, Robert |
| Thesis advisor | Lummus, David |
| Advisor | Harrison, Robert |
| Advisor | Lummus, David |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Serena Ferrando. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of French and Italian Literature. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2013 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Serena Ferrando
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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