Echoing Voices in Italian Literature

Release on 2019-01-08 | by Teresa Franco

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Author: Teresa Franco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527524552
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 346
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This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.