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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sandrock, Kirsten A.
Autres auteurs: Wright, Owain
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Collection:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.