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Small Staid, Mairead,

The traces : an essay / Mairead Small Staid. - 1 online resource

Cities & memory -- Cities & desire -- Cities & signs -- Thin cities -- Trading cities -- Cities & eyes -- Cities & names -- Cities & the dead -- Cities & the sky -- Continuous cities -- Hidden cities.

"The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson"--

ISBN: 1646052013 9781646052011

Source: C668A9FE-CBD1-4825-B6AA-5B4C26A8A3E7 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

LCCN: 2022019612

Subjects--Personal Names:
Small Staid, Mairead--Travel--Italy.
Calvino, Italo. Citt�a invisibili.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Citt�a invisibili (Calvino, Italo)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cities and towns--Italy.
Happiness.
Happiness in literature.
Cities and towns.
Happiness.
Happiness in literature.
Travel.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Italy--Description and travel.
Italy.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Creative nonfiction.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
Creative nonfiction.

LC Class. No.: DG430.2

Dewey Class. No.: 914.504