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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 161 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions; I) Processes of Othering in Intercultural Exchanges; 2) Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction; 3) Orientalising Italy: The British and Italian Political Culture; 4) 'East or West, Home is Best'? An Examination of European Images of China as the Cultural Other; II) Painted Art as Intercultural Medium; 5) Viewing the Mona Lisa 'under a strange mixture of lights'; 6) A Casualty of War: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese Painting |
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III) Occident and Orient in British-Italian Literature7) Eastern Promise in Puglia: Janet Ross on Frederick II and his Muslim Court; 8) Venice in Coryat's Crudities (1611): Between Multicultural Community and Christian Archetype; 9) Venice Observed: East Meets West in Muriel Spark's Territorial Rights; IV) Intercultural Translations in Language Transactions; 10) Theory and Practice of Translation between East and West. The Location of Some Cultural Issues; 11) Sharing Eastern Visions: Reflections upon Fausta Cialente's Translation of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell |
| Summary |
Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions is part of a series of books that examines cross-cultural processes between Britain and Italy. The volume explores for the first time British-Italian exchanges in terms of East-West, rather than North-South. In so doing, it reveals that Italy has long been a meeting point of East and West as much as one of North and South. Comprising essays from the fields of history, politics, the philosophy of language, linguistics, literature, and the arts, the collection illustrates that the dynamics of British-Italian transactions have long bee |
| Notes |
12) 'Languaging' and the Construction of Tuscan Identity in Jeff Shapiro's Renato's LuckNotes on Contributors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
East and West.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Diplomatic relations
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East and West
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International relations
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Relations -- Italy
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Italy -- Relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Italy
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Italy -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Owain
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| ISBN |
9789401209052 |
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9401209057 |
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