Carta, Giorgia (2012) The other half of the story : the interaction between indigenous and translated literature for children in Italy. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis shows to what extent the study of Italian children's
literature can benefit from an attentive analysis of the parallel
corpus of translated works and of the interaction between the
two. The first chapter argues that ignoring translated literature
means we are telling only half of the story, since translations
have had a strong impact not only on the development, but also
on the formation of Italian literature for children. The second
chapter disputes the assumed internationalism which suggests
children's classics can cross linguistic and cultural boundaries
'naturally', employing research tools offered by Translation
Studies: the mechanisms of transfer which can be observed
when classics for children move from one culture into another
reveal the many changes and adaptations that these books
have undergone in order to be accepted in the target cultures,
and also their transformation over time within their own source
cultures. The third chapter explores links between translation,
women's writing and children's literature by looking at the work
of a limited number of significant Italian women translators of
children's literature, whose contribution to Italian literature is
still largely ignored. The historical period of Fascism provides a
context for the observation of norms applying to literature for
children in the fourth chapter. The idea that children would be
much more ideologically pliable than adults led the regime to
try to impose on children's books a set of norms conforming to
its political aims. Following a broadly chronological line brings
us, in the last chapter, to look at the way in which the
penetration of innovative literary models and ideas through
translation greatly influenced the development of indigenous children's literature in post-war Italy, as well as at the impact of
globalisation from the 1980s onwards, both on Italian
production and on imported children’s books, their distribution
and reception.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures P Language and Literature > PZ Childrens literature
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Children's literature, Italian -- History and criticism, Children's literature -- Translations into Italian -- History and criticism
Official Date:	May 2012
Dates:	Date Event May 2012 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Labbe, Jacqueline M., 1965- ; Polezzi, Loredana ; Kuhiwczak, Piotr
Extent:	378 leaves
Language:	eng

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