Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature : : Multilingualism, Translation, Reception / / ed. by Elisa Segnini, Michael Subialka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abate, Sandro,; Amano, Ikuho,; Camps, Assumpta,; Ciano, Annalisa,
• HerausgeberIn: Segnini, Elisa,; Subialka, Michael ,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

Examines Gabriele D’Annunzio to re-evaluate cultural exchange and the political dimensions of global decadence and modernismFirst book to examine Gabriele D’Annunzio’s work from a global perspective and within World Literature paradigmsTransnational and cross-disciplinary focus: unveils D’Annunzio’s investment in multilingualism, including dialect and translingual writing, as well as the influence of issues of mobility and migration, colonialism and politics on the global reception of his worksIntroduces a polycentric view of D’Annunzio by bringing together chapters written by scholars from 12 countries (Italy, France, Belgium, Austria, Spain, UK, US, Canada, Russia, Egypt, Argentina, Japan), whose work in many cases appears in English for the first time Unveils the crucial role of D’Annunzio’s translators as cultural mediators and examines translations and adaptations as politically charged practicesRedefines D’Annunzio scholarship through a transnational lens, while also making a crucial contribution to studies of global decadence by demonstrating the role of Italian decadence in international networks of literary and artistic exchangeGabriele D’Annunzio was an internationally renowned artist and one of the most prominent public figures in Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His novels and poetry stirred the enthusiasm of James Joyce and Henry James in the English-speaking world and his repute stretched far beyond – in France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan and South America, D’Annunzio became a pivotal node in the broad networks of decadent exchange. This volume offers an overview of the global dynamics of D’Annunzio’s work, from his engagement with multilingualism and translingual writing to the international circulation and reception of his production. Featuring chapters by international scholars, it re-evaluates D’Annunzio with a critical eye and a transnational scope and offers a global assessment of the place that Dannunzian decadence holds in the constitution of a conflicted movement – one that is profoundly cosmopolitan and yet also problematically nationalistic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I A Poetics of Fusion: Cultural Appropriation, Multilingualism, Translingual Writing -- Chapter 1 D’Annunzio and the Greek and Latin Classics -- Chapter 2 D’Annunzio and Japonism -- Chapter 3 Il Piacere as a Multilingual Text and its Afterlife in Translation -- Chapter 4 ‘The essence of the race’: La figlia di Iorio and Italian Dialects -- Chapter 5 The ‘Latin sister’: D’Annunzio’s Relationship to the French Language -- Part II Translators as Transcultural Negotiators -- Chapter 6 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Georges Hérelle: Virility, Machismo and the Homoerotic -- Chapter 7 After Hérelle: André Doderet, the (In)visible Translator -- Chapter 8 ‘An Artist in Translation’: D’Annunzio, Arthur Symons and Symbolist Drama -- Chapter 9 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Karl Gustav Vollmoeller: From Classical Culture to the Attractions of Motor Power -- Part III D’Annunzio’s Global Fin-de-siècle Reception -- Chapter 10 Fin-de-Meiji as Fin-de-siècle: D’Annunzio and Japanese Literature -- Chapter 11 D’Annunzio’s Feminine Archetypes, Nationalist Ideology and Catalan Modernism -- Chapter 12 Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Austrian Reception after Italy’s Entry into the War -- Part IV Complex Legacies -- Chapter 13 D’Annunzio and Argentina: From Elitism to Mass Nationalism -- Chapter 14 Gabriele D’Annunzio in the United States: Politics and Stereotypes -- Chapter 15 The Myth of Gabriele D’Annunzio in Russian Culture, 1890–2010: From ‘Songs of the Native Land’ to the ‘Winged Cyclops’ -- Chapter 16 From ‘Great Italian Poet’ to ‘Fascist Writer’: D’Annunzio and Arabic Culture -- Chapter 17 Morlach’s Blood in Fiume’s Mensa: D’Annunzio and the Intimate Adriatic -- Chapter 18 Infatuated with Il Vate: Mishima’s Transnational Mimesis of D’Annunzio as Decadent Poet, Patriot and Celebrity -- D’Annunzio in the Twenty-First Century -- Bibliography -- Index