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Sicily in English Literature

2016-04-22 Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Sicily in English Literature by : carmine rapisarda

Download or read book Sicily in English Literature written by carmine rapisarda. This book was released on 2016-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book there is a selection of texts about Sicily written by british writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Lawrence, Durrel....The reader will be trasported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island than only poets can explain.

Sicily

2014-03-27 Travel
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Release : 2014-03-27
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Book Synopsis Sicily by : Andrew Edwards

Download or read book Sicily written by Andrew Edwards. This book was released on 2014-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily's violently beautiful landscapes are haunted by a vibrant mix of cultures and her soil has always been fertile ground for the literary and artistic imagination. This compelling guide uncovers the island's multi-faceted personality through those literary figures who have managed to get under her skin - from Pindar, Cicero and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Cervantes; DH Lawrence, Coleridge and Oscar Wilde to Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound and Lawrence Durrell; as well as local writers who have defined the modern Italian novel - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Leonardo Sciascia. Through their words and lives we witness the beauty, pain and power of the Sicilian cultural landscape and discover how the potent mix of influences on the island's society has been preserved forever in literature.

In Sicily

1949
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Release : 1949
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Book Synopsis In Sicily by : Elio Vittorini

Download or read book In Sicily written by Elio Vittorini. This book was released on 1949. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of Sicily

2021-07-13 History
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Release : 2021-07-13
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Invention of Sicily by : Jamie Mackay

Download or read book The Invention of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay. This book was released on 2021-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.

Sicily

2014-06-19 Travel
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Release : 2014-06-19
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Book Synopsis Sicily by : Joseph Farrell

Download or read book Sicily written by Joseph Farrell. This book was released on 2014-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading these guides is the next best thing to actually going there with them in hand.” —Foreword Magazine AN ENGAGING INTRODUCTION TO A CULTURAL GIANT Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the center of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. Sicily today is familiar and unfamiliar, modernized and unchanging. Visitors will find in an out-of-the-way town an Aragonese castle, will stumble across a Norman church by the side of a lesser travelled road, will see red Muslim-styles domes over a Christian shrine, will find a Baroque church of breathtaking beauty in a village, will catch a glimpse from the motorway of a solitary Greek temple on the horizon and will happen on a the celebrations of the patron saint of a run-down district of a city, and will stop and wonder. There is more to Sicily than the Godfather and the mafia.

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