Venice Facing Acqua Alta

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2020-1-1

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Alpakın Martınez Caro, Dürrin

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Venice has always fascinated people from all walks of life, from all over the country until the twentieth century. This paper aims at discussing the classical image of Venice versus the recent negative image of the city, which, despite its beauty and its magical atmosphere, renders people uneasy and anxious as the sea water unexpectedly covers Saint Mark's Square and the vicinities. This phenomenon is qualied as “Acqua Alta”. The year 2019 has been fatal for the city because the sea water has reached very high levels and has caused serious damage to the artistic and the historical treasures of the city. To discuss this topic, various works have been taken into consideration, putting the emphasis on two novels from Italy and Turkey which depict the phenomenon of Acqua Alta as part of the daily life in Venice with its fear and anxiety reected in the protagonists: Acqua Alta by Donna Leon and Resimli Dünya by Nedim Gürsel.

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Venice, Acqua Alta, Donna Leon, Nedim Gürsel, Tiziano Scarpa, Erica Jong, Venedik

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https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/dtcfdergisi/issue/66802/1044528
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/114423

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Department of Educational Sciences, Article