Overview
- 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
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943 is an inspiring text that will prove fundamental to any scholar who, for varying motivations, would like to consider the diffusion of foreign literature in Italy in the first half of the century. The author offers a detailed and engaging overview on the circulation of literature and translations in Italy between 1940-43.” (Valentina Geri, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943
Authors: Francesca Billiani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54150-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54149-1Published: 04 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54152-1Published: 05 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54150-7Published: 03 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Translation Studies, Literary History, History of Italy, European Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of the Book