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Introducing Translation Studies
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Mona Baker
This volume represents a much needed break from the canon that currently defines – but also restricts – the scope of translation studies. Read Venuti to see where we have come from; read Baker to see where we are heading. (Stuart Campbell, University of Western Sydney) Critical Readings in Translation Studies is an integrated and structured set of readings that is prospective rather than retrospective in orientation. It opens up the field to innovative concepts and methods of research, and to voices and perspectives from a wide range of traditions. The emphasis is on contemporary critical material culled from a broad range of sources, including but not restricted to sources in mainstream translation studies. The divisions are based on thematic rather than chronological groupings and cut across modes and genres, thus overriding not only disciplinary divisions, but also internal divisions within translation studies. This collection provides students with a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in thinking about translation, both within and outside translation studies. Designed to be the most student-friendly volume available, this reader: • Covers all the main forms of translation: oral, written, literary, non-literary, scientific, religious, audiovisual and machine translation • Uses a thematic structure: topics covered include the politics and dynamics of representation, the positioning of translators and interpreters in institutional settings, issues of minority and cultural survival, and the impact of new media and technology • Incorporates key approaches to conceptualizing translation: from textual and philosophical to cultural and political • Includes core material from renowned scholars, but also innovative and less well-known work from scholars both in related disciplines and in the non-western world. Complete with full editorial support, includ Table of contents : ITALIAN MODERNISM: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde Edited by Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni Italian Modernism offers a historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international modernism, understood as the complex phase of literary and artistic practices as a response to the epistemes of philosophical and scientific modernity at the end of the nineteenth ce / Doubles “When he giggled, which he did with nervous frequency, his underlip would come to rest below his upper teeth. He held his cigarette between the index and the middle fingers, keeping them outstretched together with the gesture of a male impersonator puffing at a cigar.” / / 15 comments / Doubles “When he giggled, which he did with nervous frequency, his underlip would come to rest below his upper teeth. He held his cigarette between the index and the middle fingers, keeping them outstretched together with the gesture of a male impersonator puffing at a cigar.” / / 15 comments .Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde 9781442623385
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: After The Conquest of the Stars
Contributors
Modernism in Italy: An Introduction
PART I. Modernism in Context
1. Italy and Modernity: Peculiarities and Contradictions
PART II. Decadence and Aestheticism
2. Sensuous Maladies: The Construction of Italian Decadentismo
3. D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt: Author and Actress between Decadence and Modernity
4. Omnes velut aqua dilabimur: Antonio Fogazzaro, The Saint, and Catholic Modernism
5. Overcoming Aestheticism
6 Transtextual Patterns: Guido Gozzano Between Epic and Elegy in ‘Goa: “La Dourada”’
PART III. Avant-Garde
7. Modernism in Florence: The Politics of Avant-Garde Culture in the Early Twentieth Century
8. Back to the Future: Temporal Ambivalences in F.T. Marinetti's Writings
9. Ungaretti, Reader of Futurism
10. Of Thresholds and Boundaries: Luigi Pirandello between Modernity and Modernism
PART IV. The Return to Order: Metafisica, Novecentismo
11. Modernism and the Quest for the Real: On Massimo Bontempelli's Minnie la Candida
12. De Chirico's Heroes: The Victors of Modernity
13. Gender, Identity, and the Return to Order . in the Early Works of Paola Masino
PART V. Towards the Postmodern
14. Representing Repetition: Appropriation in de Chirico and After
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