Venice in the Literary Imagination: readings
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Gaye Rowley, Waseda University
The works read and discussed will be chosen from the following: Daphne du Maurier, Don’t Look Now (1971);
Henry James, The Aspern Papers (1888);
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice (1912);
Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers (1981);
Ezra Pound, The Cantos (1925-71), sections
and some contemporary detective fiction, such Michael Dibdin’s Dead Lagoon (1995) and Donna Leon’s Death at La Fenice (1992) and/or Acqua Alta (1996).
If timetabling constraints (and the weather!) permit, some class periods will be devoted to literary walks around Venice.
