The Painting on the Wall
Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures, Bennington College, One College Drive, Bennington, VT 05201, USA
Humanities 2016, 5(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/h5010010
Submission received: 30 October 2015
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Revised: 31 December 2015
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Accepted: 18 January 2016
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Published: 22 January 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Short Story and the Italian Pictorial Imagination, from Boccaccio to Bandello and Beyond)
Abstract
This personal essay describes what influenced my development as a creative writer, in my childhood and adolescence. It delineates the effect on my imagination of family story-telling and of images—paintings and prints. I grew up in Italy, where I spent the first thirty years of my life.
Keywords:
paintings; images; Italy; short story; influence; story telling
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