The Venice Of The East

From the serene backwaters of Kerala to the hustle and glitz of great cities of the world, The Venice of the East is an expansive tale set against the historical, socio-cultural and technological landscape of the 20th century. Tracing the rise, fall and rise of an aristocratic family of Kuttanad, Venice plots the life of a simple boy from Alappuzha, Joy Mariadas on his journey of love, friendship, betrayal, discovery and realisation of the American Dream.

As European cities such as Venice looked further afield, not only for material goods, but also for artistic inspiration and information on new technologies and ideas, they inevitably came into contact with a great many new cultures. In this book Deborah Howard explores the experiences of Venetian merchants and travellers in the East and the influences that were brought to the city from the Islamic cultures encountered. The study is based on the literature of travellers, objects, buildings and architecture, documents and manuscripts, and takes a thematic look at the city: San Marco, the Merchant City, palaces, Palazzo Ducale, the Pilgrim City.

From the serene backwaters of Kerala to the hustle and glitz of great cities of the world, The Venice of the East is an expansive tale set against the historical, socio-cultural and technological landscape of the 20th century. Tracing the rise, fall and rise of an aristocratic family of Kuttanad, Venice plots the life of a simple boy from Alappuzha, Joy Mariadas on his journey of love, friendship, betrayal, discovery and realisation of the American Dream.

Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.

Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.

"Goldoni and the Venice of his Time" by Joseph Spencer Kennard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.