(DOWNLOAD) "Cathedral Rock: Allen Curnow's Italy." by JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cathedral Rock: Allen Curnow's Italy.
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 196 KB
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Not long after arriving in Italy, Lord Byron wrote: "Venice pleases me as much as I expected and I expected much--it is one of those places which I know before I see them--and has always haunted me'. (1) Proust recorded a similar impression: "When I went to Venice, I found that my dream had become--incredibly but quite simply--my address'. (2) No doubt Italy often strikes the first-time visitor that way. Already known and already dreamt about, Rome, Florence, Venice--as a thousand writers testify--is likely to do strange things to the visitor's accustomed sense of novelty and familiarity, anticipation and realisation. The New Zealander may find it is a place where the Maori sense of time holds true doubly: its past and our past are always before us. Alien Curnow came particularly late to Italy. He was 63, two years away from retirement and on his last university leave, when he and Jeny arrived, by ship, in February 1974. An unusual amount of 'Italian luggage' would have arrived with them: a canon of prior literary responses from Goethe and Byron through Ruskin and Henry James to Proust and Pound, not to mention all the art books, operas and concertos, the travel guides, the anecdotes and tips of friends, even the kind of memories one has from watching Kenneth Clark's Civilisation on colour TV. And with the luggage a question: can a place as old as Italy be 'something different, something nobody counted on'?
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