The Traveler in Venice: Moving Through Space, Time, and Change
Location
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
14-11-2007 6:00 PM
Description
Dr. Margaret Doody, renowned critic, novelist, holder of the endowed john and Barbara Glynn Family Professorship of Literature at the University of Notre Dame, will speak on a subject close to her heart as a traveler and scholar: the city of Venice and its place in the Western consciousness. She will treat the disconcerting ambiguities of the general traveler's experience in focusing on her own travel to Venice. In her recently published book, The Tropic of Venice, Doody, in attempting, as she says, "to puzzle out why I love Venice," addresses larger questions which she will also address in her lecture: "What exactly is Venice? Why is Venice so important to us? [Why is it] irreplaceable in the Western imagination" (17). In her responses, she will also examine art and literature produced about and by residents of this city once known as "La Serenissima."
Recommended Citation
Doody, Margaret Anne, "The Traveler in Venice: Moving Through Space, Time, and Change" (2007). Humanities Symposium. 7.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2007/2007/7
The Traveler in Venice: Moving Through Space, Time, and Change
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
Dr. Margaret Doody, renowned critic, novelist, holder of the endowed john and Barbara Glynn Family Professorship of Literature at the University of Notre Dame, will speak on a subject close to her heart as a traveler and scholar: the city of Venice and its place in the Western consciousness. She will treat the disconcerting ambiguities of the general traveler's experience in focusing on her own travel to Venice. In her recently published book, The Tropic of Venice, Doody, in attempting, as she says, "to puzzle out why I love Venice," addresses larger questions which she will also address in her lecture: "What exactly is Venice? Why is Venice so important to us? [Why is it] irreplaceable in the Western imagination" (17). In her responses, she will also examine art and literature produced about and by residents of this city once known as "La Serenissima."
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