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Author : Elizabeth Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-12-01
The Light In The Piazza And Other Italian Tales written by Elizabeth Spencer and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her American characters encounter but never quite wholly adjust to the mysteries of the Italian mores. Collected here in one volume are Spencer's six Italian tales. Their plots are so alluring and enigmatic that Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister contrasts of dark and light. Spencer is grounded in two bases—Italy and the American South. Her characters too, mostly southerners, rove in search of connection and fulfillment. In The Light in the Piazza (a novella which has become both Spencer's signature piece and a Hollywood film) a stranger from North Carolina, traveling with her beautiful daughter, encounters the intoxicating beauty of sunlit Florence and discovers a deep conflict in the moral dilemma it presents. “I think this work has great charm,” Spencer has said, “and it probably is the real thing, a work written under great compulsion, while I was under the spell of Italy. But it took me, all told, about a month to write.” In Knights and Dragons (another novella and a companion piece to The Light in the Piazza) an American woman in Rome and Venice struggles for release from her husband's sinister control over her. Spencer sets this tale in the cold and wintry dark and here portrays the other face of Italy. In “The Cousins,” “The Pincian Gate,” “The White Azalea,” and “The Visit,” Spencer shows the exceptional artistry that has merited acclaim for her as one of America's first-class writers of the short story. The Light in the Piazza may long be the work for which she is most recognized. In 2005, the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City staged a musical adaptation of this novella. The production brought together the talents of Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Craig Lucas (book), while director Bartlett Sher made his Lincoln Center debut. That year the musical won six of the eleven Tony awards it was nominated for. It was thereafter produced on stages across the globe and eventually returned to Lincoln Center in 2016 for a reunion of its original cast as a benefit concert.
The Light In The Piazza And Other Italian Tales
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Author : Elizabeth Spencer
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Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010-12-01
The Light In The Piazza And Other Italian Tales written by Elizabeth Spencer and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic vision. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Her American characters encounter but never quite wholly adjust to the mysteries of the Italian mores. Collected here in one volume are Spencer's six Italian tales. Their plots are so alluring and enigmatic that Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister contrasts of dark and light. Spencer is grounded in two bases—Italy and the American South. Her characters too, mostly southerners, rove in search of connection and fulfillment. In The Light in the Piazza (a novella which has become both Spencer's signature piece and a Hollywood film) a stranger from North Carolina, traveling with her beautiful daughter, encounters the intoxicating beauty of sunlit Florence and discovers a deep conflict in the moral dilemma it presents. “I think this work has great charm,” Spencer has said, “and it probably is the real thing, a work written under great compulsion, while I was under the spell of Italy. But it took me, all told, about a month to write.” In Knights and Dragons (another novella and a companion piece to The Light in the Piazza) an American woman in Rome and Venice struggles for release from her husband's sinister control over her. Spencer sets this tale in the cold and wintry dark and here portrays the other face of Italy. In “The Cousins,” “The Pincian Gate,” “The White Azalea,” and “The Visit,” Spencer shows the exceptional artistry that has merited acclaim for her as one of America's first-class writers of the short story. The Light in the Piazza may long be the work for which she is most recognized. In 2005, the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York City staged a musical adaptation of this novella. The production brought together the talents of Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Craig Lucas (book), while director Bartlett Sher made his Lincoln Center debut. That year the musical won six of the eleven Tony awards it was nominated for. It was thereafter produced on stages across the globe and eventually returned to Lincoln Center in 2016 for a reunion of its original cast as a benefit concert.
Elizabeth Spencer Novels Stories Loa 344
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Author : Elizabeth Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Elizabeth Spencer Novels Stories Loa 344 written by Elizabeth Spencer and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Fiction categories.
On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing--three novels and nineteen stories--from a career spanning more than six decades. The Voice at the Back Door (1957), greeted by The New Yorker as "a practically perfect novel" and here restored to print, portrays small-town life in Mississippi during the late Jim Crow era and the self-interest and hatred that kept injustice firmly in place. Published two years after the Emmett Till lynching, it captures the spitting vehemence of its white characters' speech and may have been proven too potentially controversial for the Pulitzer board (which awarded no prize in 1957). Also included in this volume are The Light in the Piazza (1960), Spencer's most famous work, a deftly poignant comedy about Americans abroad that was adapted to the screen by Guy Green; and a second superb Italian novella, Knights and Dragons (1965), reminiscent of Henry James's novels in its atmosphere, interiority, and concern with transplanted Americans. Spencer excelled in the short story form and this volume presents a career-spanning selection by editor Michael Gorra that ranges from the early "First Dark" (1959), a kind of ghost story about a spectral oversized house in a Southern town, to the valedictory "The Wedding Visitor" (2013), about the refusal to let the all-enveloping world of place, family, and childhood define one's adult life. Spencer's special focus was families, and few writers have so brilliantly plumbed the passions that unite them and the inner upheavals that can tear them apart.
The Light In The Piazza
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Author : Elizabeth Spencer
language : en
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Heinemann
Release Date : 1960
The Light In The Piazza written by Elizabeth Spencer and has been published by London ; Toronto : Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Fiction categories.
A collection of six Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
The Light In The Piazza
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Author : Elizabeth Spencer
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Publisher: London ; Toronto : Heinemann
Release Date : 1960
The Light In The Piazza written by Elizabeth Spencer and has been published by London ; Toronto : Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Fiction categories.
A collection of six Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
Obituaries In The Performing Arts 2019
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Author : Harris M. Lentz III
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-10-28
Obituaries In The Performing Arts 2019 written by Harris M. Lentz III and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-28 with Performing Arts categories.
The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.
Encyclopedia Of The American Short Story
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Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
Encyclopedia Of The American Short Story written by Abby H. P. Werlock and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with American fiction categories.
Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.
Encyclopedia Of The American Novel
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Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
Encyclopedia Of The American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with American fiction categories.
Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.
Elizabeth Spencer S Complicated Cartographies
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Author : C. Seltzer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-07-20
Elizabeth Spencer S Complicated Cartographies written by C. Seltzer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.
Companion To Literature
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Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Companion To Literature written by Abby H. P. Werlock and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with American literature categories.
Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."