Cultural reception, translation and transformation from medieval to modern Italy : essays in honour of Martin McLaughlin / edited by Guido Bonsaver, Brian Richardson and Giuseppe Stellardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonsaver, Guido, editor.

Richardson, Brian (Brian F.), editor.

Stellardi, Giuseppe, editor.

McLaughlin, M. L. (Martin L.), honouree.

Modern Humanities Research Association, issuing body.

Language:

English

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxii 443 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Legenda, an imprint of Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017.

Language Note:

English text with selections in Latin and Italian.

Summary:

Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads where different cultures met, transformed and continued their journeys. This volume retraces some of these crossings, in the fields of literature, architecture and cinema: from the influence of the classical heritage, to the origins and diffusion of the Italian Renaissance, to the role of individuals in the discovery and transmission of knowledge, and the dialogue in and through translation with other national cultures, European and beyond. The volume marks the retirement of Martin McLaughlin from the Agnelli-Serena Chair of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford and celebrates his highly distinguished career in Italian studies. Professor McLaughlin's research has ranged from classical literatures to the Renai-ssance and to modern and contemporary literature. He has published a host of ground-breaking books, edited volumes, articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, as well as outstanding translations of Calvino and Eco. No less significant have been his teaching, his roles in the running of academic journals and monograph series, and his contributions to the life of the academic community. -- From publisher's website.

Contents:

Bibliography of publications by Martin McLaughlin

1 'Io mi rivolgo indietro e ciascun passo' (Rvf 15. 1): Petrarch, the fabula of Eurydice and Orpheus and the structure of the Canzoniere / Zygmunt G. Bara�nski

2 Boccaccio's 'spirante turbo': an intertextual defence of tolerance / Elisabetta Tarantino

3 Beyond Borghini: the Oxford manuscript of Sacchetti's novelle and their critical edition / Michelangelo Zaccarello

4 Why retranslate the classicsGriselda in French from Renaissance to the twentieth century / Linda Louie, Mairi McLaughlin and Diana Thow

5 La raffigurazione del potere nell'Orlando furioso / Marco Dorigatti

6 Intricate intertextuality: Lucan's Wood in Ariosto and Tasso / Elena Lombardi

7 Improvising lyric verse in the renaissance: contexts, sources and composition / Brian Richardson

8 Piero Vettori and France / Richard Cooper

9 From shadows towards light: transformations of allegorical journeys in dialogue II of Giordano Bruno's Cena de le ceneri / Hilary Gatti

10 Sebastiano Serlio: guidizio, mescolanza, invenzione / Francesco Paolo Fiore

11 Giacomo Leoni: unsung literature between Alberti and Palladio / John Woodhouse

12 Repurposing renaissance literature for language learning: Giuseppe Baretti's An introduction to the Italian language (1755) / Vilma de Gasperin

13 Goldoni and Gozzi: disquisition on a statue that walks / Joseph Farrell

14 Romantic, romantico, romanzesco: an aspect of Walter Scott's reception in Italy / David Robey

15 Hypatia of Alexandria, pagan or christianPropaganda wars between John Toland's Hypatia of 1720 and Diodata Saluzzo's Ipazia of 1827 / Letizia Panizza

16 John Dickson Batten's illustrations to the Inferno / Peter Hainsworth

17 Turns of chance: modern luck and Italian modernism (Marinetti, Montale, Pirandello) / Robert S. C. Gordon

18 Johnny's epic resistance: classical echoes in Fenoglio's Il partigiano Johnny / Rosalba Biasini

19 Une questioncella privata: su un recconto ineditio di Italo Calvino / Mario Barenghi

20 Calvino's Il barone rampante and Leopardi's Elogio degli uccelli / Emanuela Tandello Cooper

21 Transformation in the giallo: Italo Calvino's metafictional anti-detective novel Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979) / Helen Anderson

22 'Senti 'n po', a Gregori P�ecche': Shavelson's It Started in Naples and Fellini's La dolce vita between Italian and U.S. culture / Guido Bonsaver

23 Diffracting Dante's Paradiso with Pasolini and Morante: transformation, identity and the form of desire / Manuele Gragnolati

24 'Poetry is not eggs': Luigi Meneghello on Italian and foreign poetry, translation and 'transplants' / Diego Zancani

25 'Double trouble': Giampaolo Pansa's Il sangue dei vinti from novel to film / Philip Cooke

26 Controtendenze narrative novesentesche: La Storia Romanzo di Elsa Morante / Franca Pellegrini

27 Fragments of (urban) space and (human) time: Gadda's poetics (with Baudelaire and Benjamin) / Giuseppe Stellardi

18 Il misterio dei due anelli: una postilla sopra la natura del discorso letterario da Virgilio a Calvino / Nicola Gardini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (xxviii-xxxii) and index.

ISBN:

9781781884690

1781884692

OCLC:

990013423