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Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature

Author : Cinzia Sartini Blum
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144269260X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature written by Cinzia Sartini Blum and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-09-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mobility of women is a central issue in feminist analysis of literary works and historical periods. Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature explores the concept of the journey from feminist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial perspectives, in order to offer an alternative understanding of "moving." Cinzia Sartini Blum examines the new literature of migration in Italian and journeys in the works of Biancamaria Frabotta, Dacia Maraini, Toni Maraini, and Maria Pace Ottieri, to demonstrate that women writers and migrant authors in contemporary Italy present journeys as events that are beyond heroic modern exploration and postmodern fragmentation. Using the mythical figure of Gradiva, Blum shows how contemporary Italian women writers have reinvented Gradiva to reveal subjectivities that challenge and overcome the postmodern melancholia and nihilism prevalent in contemporary male writers and thinkers. She also considers the connection between metaphorical and literal mobility, the role of the intellectual as cultural intermediary, the roles of women in cultural encounters within mass migrations, and how migrancy is a way of being in the postcolonial world. An impeccable piece of original scholarship, Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature will be of interest to feminist, literary, and postcolonial scholars.

Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature

Author : Cinzia Sartini Blum
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802097898
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Translating Travel

Author : Loredana Polezzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351877933
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Translating Travel written by Loredana Polezzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture. The volume takes as its starting point the marginal position of contemporary Italian travel writing in the Italian literary system, and proposes a comparative reading of originals and translations designed to highlight the varying reception of texts in different cultures. Two main themes in the book are the affinity between the representations produced by travel and the practices of translation, and the complex links between travel writing and genres such as ethnography, journalism, autobiography and fiction. Individual chapters are devoted to Italian travellers' accounts of Tibet and their English translations; the hybridization of journalism and travel writing in the works of Oriana Fallaci; Italo Calvino's sublimation of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le città invisibili; and the complex network of literary references which marked the reception of Claudio Magris's Danubio in different cultures.

New Italian Voices

Author : Cinzia Sartini Blum
Publisher : Italica Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781599103754
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book New Italian Voices written by Cinzia Sartini Blum and published by Italica Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2019 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""New Italian Voices" is an anthology of English translations of short stories, poetry, drama and criticism by immigrant writers living in Italy and writing in Italian"--

Journeys Exposed

Author : Giorgia Alù
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429794835
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Journeys Exposed written by Giorgia Alù and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all in different ways related to Italy. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of the others’ mobile lives within and beyond the writing process. By resorting to the visual, women individualistically respond to forms of hegemonic power, fragmentation, displacement, loss and marginality, and make these experiences key to their creative production.

Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing

Author : Nathalie Hester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922033
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing by : Nathalie Hester

Download or read book Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing written by Nathalie Hester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length study in English on seventeenth-century Italian travel writing enriches our understanding of an unusually fertile period for Italian contributions to the genre. The intrinsic qualities of this literature can now be grasped in terms of the larger question of cultural identity in Italy. For Hester, the specifically literary characteristics of Italian travel writing”including its humanism or Petrarchism”highlight the classic eminence throughout Europe of a prestigious tradition inherent to Italy, one compensating then for the peninsula's lack of a national political identity. Appeals to the cultural authority of that tradition represent a means of addressing and overcoming anxieties about the Italian subject's diasporic status during the "Golden Age" of European global colonial expansion. Self-funded travelers Francesco Carletti, Pietro Della Valle, Francesco Belli, Francesco Negri, and Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri are the major authors studied who journeyed through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America.

Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

Author : Jillian Loise Melchor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040107745
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing written by Jillian Loise Melchor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an analytical middle ground, highlighting the ambivalence of Italian chroniclers while acknowledging their participation in epistemological practices subsumed within the broader enterprise of conquest. Beyond the role of travel writing in colonial episteme, the book also situates the act of writing about one’s travels in instances of national character building (in Italy’s case) and in attempts of constructing a national historiography (in the Philippines' case). This manner of nuancing literary productions by the West while navigating its implications in the East, specifically, how pre-Unification “Italian” travel informed nationalist constructions in the Revolutionary Philippines, could enrich our understanding of and refract monolithic conceptions of metropole−periphery relations.

A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature

Author : Grzegorz Moroz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429611
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature written by Grzegorz Moroz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages.

The Mighty Franks

Author : Michael Frank
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443452017
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Mighty Franks written by Michael Frank and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **One of the Telegraph's 50 best books of the year!**Longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize** The boundaries of family life are upended in this memoir, which turns on the author’s lifelong relationship with his enthralling yet deeply possessive aunt, a powerhouse Hollywood screenwriter whose turbulent nature slowly reveals itself. All his life Michael Frank has been fawned over by his aunt, who was a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s. She loves him more than life itself. At first, when he is a young boy, this is a very good thing. He takes refuge in her adoration and attention. But soon things turn bad and her hold on the entire family begins to spiral out of control in increasingly unpredictable and volatile ways.

Secrets and Puzzles

Author : Nicoletta Simborowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351197576
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Secrets and Puzzles written by Nicoletta Simborowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four major Italian writers raised in the shadow of fascism - Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg and Francesca Sanvitale - are the focus of this examination of the 'unsaid' in modern Italian narrative. Post-war and free of official censorship, these writers nonetheless show signs of constraint and omission in their work. Are the gaps a form of concealment? In this lucid and wide-ranging study, which embraces key areas of modern literary investigation - Holocaust writing, political guilt, autobiography, feminism and film theory - the author addresses the question of self-censorship and traces its course in contemporary Italian writing."

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing

Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110861681X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies

Author : Charles Forsdick
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783089245
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Keywords for Travel Writing Studies written by Charles Forsdick and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, the style more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors reflecting on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

Travelling In and Out of Italy

Author : Emanuele Occhipinti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383033X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Travelling In and Out of Italy written by Emanuele Occhipinti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel has often been taken as a metaphor for human life, and the concept of travel and the traveller has varied across centuries, cultural traditions, and social groups. Following a diachronic overview of travel writing, this study considers some of the most important Italian writers of the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, such as D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Svevo, with particular focus on their note-books, letters, travel diaries, and reportage. An analysis of this material indicates that these authors collect their miscellaneous notes, in some cases, as private and personal documents, and in other instances to possibly develop future articles, essays or novels. It goes on to focus on the journey par excellence, the trip to America, regarded as an Eden. In many of their works, writers such as Ojetti, Giacosa, Cecchi, Piovene express their ambivalence towards a place often idealized as a land of freedom and opportunity, yet also acknowledged as a land where oppression and violence are all too real. The study attempts to demonstrate how all the traveller-writers discussed “translate” their sense of discovery in their books, and the extent to which that sense affects the conception of each of the texts.

The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

Author : Tim Youngs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874475
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing written by Tim Youngs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying various works of travel literature, this text argues that travel writing redefines the myriad genres it often comprises.

Italian Tales

Author : Massimo Riva
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129696
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Italian Tales written by Massimo Riva and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology serves as a literary map to guide readers through the varied geography of contemporary Italian fiction. Massimo Riva has gathered English-language translations of short stories and excerpts from novels that were originally published in Italian between 1975 and 2001. As an expression of a communal contemporary condition, these narratives suggest a new sensibility and a new way of seeing, exploring, and inhabiting the world, in writing. Riva provides a comprehensive introduction to Italian literary trends of the past twenty years. Each selection is preceded by a short introduction and biography of the writer. For English-language readers who are familiar with the work of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, this collection presents an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the work of other important contemporary Italian writers of fiction.

Travelling Servants

Author : Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000638995
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Travelling Servants written by Kathryn Walchester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally, this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing, offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour.

Translation and Minority

Author : Lawrence Venuti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134966091
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Translation and Minority written by Lawrence Venuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of this volume is a question: What can the concept of minority bring to the practice and study of translation? Minority is understood here to mean a cultural or political position that is subordinate, whether the social context that so defines it is local, national or global. This position is occupied by languages and literatures that lack prestige or authority, the non-standard and the non-canonical, what is not spoken or read much by a hegemonic culture. Yet minorities also include the nations and social groups that are affiliated with these languages and literatures, the politically weak or underrepresented, the colonized and the disenfranchised, the exploited and the stigmatized. Translation today is itself a minor use of language, a lesser art, an invisible craft that commands less cultural capital and fewer legal privileges than original composition. Yet the focus in this collection is not on what translators worldwide have in common but on the distinctive forms that translating takes when it is done by or on behalf of minorities. The articles in this volume present a variety of case studies that illuminate the linguistic and cultural problems posed by such translating, as well as the economic and political agendas it has served. Together, these pieces show that the concept of minority is worth exploring because it inspires innovation in translation practice and research. Minor cultures are coincident with new translation strategies, new translation theories, and new syntheses of the diverse methodologies that constitute the discipline of translation studies.