Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Locating Italy: East and West in British–Italian Transactions I) Processes of Othering in Intercultural Exchanges 2) Othering the Other: English and Italian in Transaction 3) Orientalising Italy: The British and Italian Political Culture 4) ‘East or West, Home is Best’? An Examination of European Images of China as the Cultural Other II) Painted Art as Intercultural Medium 5) Viewing the Mona Lisa ‘under a strange mixture of lights’ 6) A Casualty of War: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese Painting III) Occident and Orient in British–Italian Literature 7) Eastern Promise in Puglia: Janet Ross on Frederick II and his Muslim Court 8) Venice in Coryat’s Crudities (1611): Between Multicultural Community and Christian Archetype 9) Venice Observed: East Meets West in Muriel Spark’s Territorial Rights IV) Intercultural Translations in Language Transactions 10) Theory and Practice of Translation between East and West. The Location of Some Cultural Issues 11) Sharing Eastern Visions: Reflections upon Fausta Cialente’s Translation of The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell 12) ‘Languaging’ and the Construction of Tuscan Identity in Jeff Shapiro’s Renato’s Luck Notes on Contributors Ed. By Kirsten Sandrock And Owain Wright. Includes Bibliographical References.