National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943, 1st ed. 2020
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Billiani Francesca
National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribution translations made to shaping an Italian national culture, it draws on a wealth of archival material made available in English for the first time.
1. Introduction: Atlases of Translations.- 2.Orientations: La Voce and Gobetti.- 3. The Twenties: Cultural Explorations and Experimentations Between Highbrow and Popular (1918-1932).- 4. The 1930s: The Spaces of Culture (1932-1938).- 5. Versatile Publishing Projects (1938-1943).- 6. Classics Revised.
Francesca Billiani is a Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the co-author with Laura Pennacchietti of Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime (2019) and has published in the fields of Italian intellectual and cultural history, especially concerning translation and the arts.
Explores the importance of translations of foreign literature in Italy, to the fall of the Fascist regime in 1943 A translation of Francesca Billiani's groundbreaking work Culture nazionali e narrazioni straniere. Italia, 1903-1943 Analyzes the aesthetic capital of translated texts during the period in shaping cultural taste
Date de parution : 11-2021
Ouvrage de 258 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 11-2020
Ouvrage de 258 p.
14.8x21 cm
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