Background
Perosa, Sergio was born in 1933 in Chioggia, Italy, WORLD0.
(Throughout the long course of literature, islands have ac...)
Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of "discovery", after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book. In the 19th century, by way of retribution or contrast, transgressive, "fallen", or "lost" women are made to relinquish the islands of love and desire, and to seek self-effacement, loss of identity, and death, by water. They seal their lethal destinies by swimming out to sea, walking into rivers, lakes and ponds, where their very images are reflected. Compelled, at the same time, to provide images, women find themselves at the centre of dramatic contrasts between art and life, figuration and bodily presence. Visual images, paintings and portraits, absorb and encroach on their physicality and their existence; an all-pervading artistic urge does away with life and the world. These are the themes of the third and fourth variations. The book provides thematic criticism, in that it pursues the variations and the evolution of basic motifs in literary figuration.
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critic Anglo-American literature educator
Perosa, Sergio was born in 1933 in Chioggia, Italy, WORLD0.
Degree in English, University Venice, 1956. Doctorate, University Venice, 1957.
Instructor English and American literature, U. Trieste (Italy), 1961-1966;
instructor English and American Literature, U. Venice (Italy), 1958-1968;
professor Anglo-American literature, U. Venice (Italy), since 1968;
chairman English Department, University Venice (Italy), 1966-1983;
dean Faculty Modern Langs., U. Venice (Italy), 1987^, 1987-1990. Contributor for English literature Corriere della Sera, Milan, since 1969. Fulbrightfellow Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1957-1958.
Lyly fellow Indiana U. School Letters, 1958. Salzburg seminar fellow, 1961. Harvard University international seminar fellow, 1970-1971.
Visiting Professor of English Princeton University, 1974-1975. Berg professor.English and American literature New York University, 1978. Lecturer numerous European and American universities.
Teacher courses in American literature, Rome, Paris and Salzburg seminars.
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Member Ateneo Veneto (president 1979-1983), Italian Association American Studies (president 1979-1981), European Association for American Studies (board directors 1976-1988, president 1984-1988), Italian Society for Australian Studies (president 1979-1981), International Association Professionals English, Institute Veneto Lettere, Science e Arti, Accademia Olimpica, Accademia Concordi, European Society Culture, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club.