The City as Metaphor. Why Writers love Venice: readings
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All material for this course will be available either in a coursepack or through a direct download from VIU website. Students are especially encouraged to read "Death in Venice" and Plato's "Phaedrus" before arrival in Venice. It would also be helpful to view Visconti's film version of "Death in Venice." - Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, edited by Naomi Ritter, 1998 Boston : Bedford Books, ISBN: 0312210647 0312120028
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, edited by J. G. Links, 1960, Da Capo Press, ISBN: 030681286X
- Honoré de Balzac, "Facino Cane," "Sarrasine," translated by Clara Bell, 2006, Dodo Press, ISBN: 10140650679
- Henry James, The Aspern Papers, edited by Christof Wegelin, 2002 W W Norton, ISBN: 100393977102
- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, 6 Voumes, The Modern Library Edition.
- Platon, "The Phaedrus," Translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, 1995, Hackett, ISBN: 0872202208
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Peter Gay and Walter Kaufmann, 2000, Modern Library Edition, ISBN: 100679783393
