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Columbia University Press "A shimmering, brilliant reflection on Venice's making of a modernist aesthetic." -- Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University "A highly original scholarly contribution of uncommon finesse." -- Jeffrey T. Schnapp, director, metaLAB, Harvard      "A theoretically sophisticated project, far-reaching in its comparativist approach, and methodologically rigorous throughout." -- Carla Billitteri, University of Maine   "A rich and satisfying book, Scappettone offers her own Benjaminian arcades of Venice ... [It] will make you revisit the city once again, bathing its canals, palaces, and monuments in a truly new light." -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania  Killing the Moonlight Modernism in Venice                  Jennifer Scappettone            Order Now and Save 30%   To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code KILSCA in the coupon code field at check out.*    The e-book of Killing the Moonlight is available wherever e-books are sold!   As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase.   Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture -- from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover -- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new.     Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.     Modernist Latitudes     Order Now and Save 30%!   $60.00 $42.00 Use discount code KILSCA at check-out Cloth | 464 pages | 40 illustrations and color insert |  £41.50* * Customer in the UK and Europe should contact customer@wiley.com  FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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