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Locating Italy : East and West in British-Italian Transactions.
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 I...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.