Locating Italy : : East and West in British-Italian transactions / / edited by Kirsten Sandrock and Owain Wright.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 161
• Author: Italy.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sandrock, Kirsten.; Wright, Owain.; Italy.; Great Britain.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 161.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions is part of a series of books that examines cross-cultural processes between Britain and Italy. The volume explores for the first time British-Italian exchanges in terms of East-West, rather than North-South. In so doing, it reveals that Italy has long been a meeting point of East and West as much as one of North and South. Comprising essays from the fields of history, politics, the philosophy of language, linguistics, literature, and the arts, the collection illustrates that the dynamics of British–Italian transactions have long been shaped by a fascinating process of location and relocation. Locating Italy is pathbreaking in questioning the traditional categories of North, South, East, and West in interactions between these two countries and their respective cultures.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Locating Italy: East and West in British–Italian Transactions / Kirsten Sandrock and Owain Wright -- Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction / Jean–Jacques Lecercle -- Orientalising Italy: The British and Italian Political Culture / Owain Wright -- ‘East or West, Home is Best’? An Examination of European Images of China as the Cultural Other / Ting Zheng -- Viewing the Mona Lisa ‘under a strange mixture of lights’ / Emily Eells -- A Casualty of War: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese Painting / Nick Pearce -- Eastern Promise in Puglia: Janet Ross on Frederick II and his Muslim Court / Sharon Ouditt -- Venice in Coryat’s Crudities (1611): Between Multicultural Community and Christian Archetype / Kirsten Sandrock -- Venice Observed: East Meets West in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights / Martin Stannard -- Theory and Practice of Translation between East and West. The Location of Some Cultural Issues / Carla Dente -- Sharing Eastern Visions: Reflections upon Fausta Cialente’s Translation of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell / Antonella De Nicola -- ‘Languaging’ and the Construction of Tuscan Identity in Jeff Shapiro’s Renato’s Luck / Daniele Franceschi -- Notes on Contributors.