Spirit of (Dis)Placement: Italy as Canvas and Mirror in Modernist Literature, Fall 2008 book list

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	Italy has been the subject of the literary and visual art of foreigners for centuries. A key outcome of the study of literature is that the reader gains a deeper understanding of the self through the attempt to understand the motivations and actions of literary characters. Such insight into the self as a result of examination of the other is one of the key outcomes of study abroad learning experiences as well: as the student traveler attempts to understand the host culture, she invariably confronts new aspects of herself. Italy has been the subject of the literary and visual art of foreigners for centuries. A key outcome of the study of literature is that the reader gains a deeper understanding of the self through the attempt to understand the motivations and actions of literary characters. Such insight into the self as a result of examination of the other is one of the key outcomes of study abroad learning experiences as well: as the student traveler attempts to understand the host culture, she invariably confronts new aspects of herself. Required Books To purchase How to order: These books are available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. When visiting the Amazon website, place the ISBN into the search field and the books will come up. If you prefer to have your books shipped to Italiaidea, order them through Amazon.co.uk and have the shipped to Your Name, c/o Italiaidea, Via dei Due Macelli 47, 00187 Roma, ITALY. Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin Modern Classics edition, 2007, ISBN 0141188367), available only in Europe: order from Amazon.co.uk E. M. Forster, "Where Angels Fear to Tread", in Stories of E. M. Forster (Carroll and Graf, ISBN 0786706236). British edition, easier to obtain from Amazon.co.uk Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (Norton Critical Edition, 1995, ISBN 0393966461). Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics Edition, 1988, ISBN 0192839764). Photocopy packet to be purchased in Rome. Required Books Axel Boethius, Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art, 1992, ISBN 0300052901). Richard Taylor, How to Read a Church (Paulist Press, 2005, ISBN 1587680300).