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Publishing contemporary foreign poetry : transnational exchange in the Italian publishing field, 1939-1977
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Milani, Mila (2023) Publishing contemporary foreign poetry : transnational exchange in the Italian publishing field, 1939-1977. Transnational Italian Cultures . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781837644407
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The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contemporary foreign poetry in Italy. The practice was at its most prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s, when publishing houses across the board almost doubled the number of foreign poetry titles in their catalogues. This remarkable phenomenon, however, has received scant critical attention, which has been limited to an aesthetic perspective. Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field, 1939–1977 is one of the first studies to examine the sociological significance of publishing poetry translations. Drawing on untapped archival materials, it investigates from an interdisciplinary perspective the processes and products of poetry translation, and how they impacted on publishing, cultural, literary, and political dynamics in Italy. It explores the internal reconfiguration of Italian culture, and how Italy sought to position itself in the world, without neglecting the contradictions of national and transnational cultural networks and movements. The book argues that translation was a means to modify power relationships in the field of poetry publishing and the contemporary literary arena; this ultimately changed the map of Italian cultural production and its transnational networks, thus anticipating the further developments provoked by globalisation in the 1980s.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||
Series Name: | Transnational Italian Cultures | ||||
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Liverpool | ||||
ISBN: | 9781837644407 | ||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2023 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 256 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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