Gabriele D'Annunzio and world literature : multilingualism, translation, reception / edited by Elisa Segnini and Michael Subialka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segnini, Elisa, editor.

Subialka, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

England : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Examines Gabriele D'Annunzio to re-evaluate cultural exchange and the political dimensions of global decadence and modernism.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

I. A Poetics of Fusion: Cultural Appropriation, Multilingualism, Translingual Writing

1. D'Annunzio and the Greek and Latin Classics

2. D'Annunzio and Japonism

3. Il Piacere as a Multilingual Text and its Afterlife in Translation

4. 'The essence of the race': La figlia di Iorio and Italian Dialects

5. The 'Latin sister': D'Annunzio's Relationship to the French Language

II. Translators as Transcultural Negotiators

6. Gabriele D'Annunzio and Georges Hérelle: Virility, Machismo and the Homoerotic

7. After Hérelle: André Doderet, the (In)visible Translator

8. 'An Artist in Translation': D'Annunzio, Arthur Symons and Symbolist Drama

9. Gabriele D'Annunzio and Karl Gustav Vollmoeller: From Classical Culture to the Attractions of Motor Power

III. D'Annunzio's Global Fin-de-siècle Reception

10. Fin-de-Meiji as Fin-de-siècle: D'Annunzio and Japanese Literature

11. D'Annunzio's Feminine Archetypes, Nationalist Ideology and Catalan Modernism

12. Gabriele D'Annunzio and the Austrian Reception after Italy's Entry into the War

IV. Complex Legacies

13. D'Annunzio and Argentina: From Elitism to Mass Nationalism

14. Gabriele D'Annunzio in the United States: Politics and Stereotypes

15. The Myth of Gabriele D'Annunzio in Russian Culture, 1890-2010: From 'Songs of the Native Land' to the 'Winged Cyclops'

16. From 'Great Italian Poet' to 'Fascist Writer': D'Annunzio and Arabic Culture

17. Morlach's Blood in Fiume's Mensa: D'Annunzio and the Intimate Adriatic

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Segnini, Elisa Gabriele d'Annunzio and World Literature

ISBN:

1-3995-0687-0