Transnational Italian Studies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789621372)

Transnational Italian Studies is specifically targeted at a student audience and is designed to be used as a key text when approaching the disciplinary field of Italian studies. It allows the study of Italian culture to be construed and practised not simply as the inquiry into a national tradition but as the study of the interaction of cultural practices both within Italy itself and in those parts of the world that have witnessed the extent of Italian mobility. The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global context. Contributions deploy a range of methodological approaches to understand and illustrate how language operates, how culture inhabits and constitutes public and private space, how notions of time operate within people's lives, and the multiple ways in which people experience a sense of personhood. Chapters stretch from the early modern period to the present and demonstrate how transnational Italian culture can be critically addressed through the examination of carefully chosen examples.


Author: Charles Burdett
ISBN-10: 1789621372
ISBN-13: 9781789621372
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2020
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.46w x 1.08d

About the Author

Charles Burdett is a Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Durham

Loredana Polezzi is a Professor of Translation Studies at Cardiff University