Cesare Pavese And Anthony Chiuminatto

Author : Cesare Pavese,Anthony Lawrence Chiuminatto
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802092946

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Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto by Cesare Pavese,Anthony Lawrence Chiuminatto Pdf

Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) is generally recognized as one of the most important writers of his period. Between the years 1929 and 1933, Pavese enjoyed a rich correspondence with his Italian American friend, the musician and educator Antonio Chiuminatto (1904-1973). The nature of this correspondence is primarily related to Pavese's thirst to learn about American culture, its latest books, its most significant contemporary writers, as well as its slang. This volume presents an annotated edition of Pavese and Chiminatto's complete epistolary exchange. Mark Pietralunga's brilliant introduction provides historical and cultural context for the letters and traces Pavese's early development as a leading Americanist and translator. The volume also includes an appendix of Chiuminatto's detailed annotations and thorough explanations of colloquial American terms and slang, drawn from the works of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, and William Faulkner. A lively and illuminating exchange, this collection ultimately corroborates critical opinion that America was the igniting spark of Pavese's literary beginnings as a writer and translator.

Author : Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487506308

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Kafka’s Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Pdf

This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.

Author : Andrea Raimondi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443858427

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The Many Voices of Contemporary Piedmontese Writers by Andrea Raimondi Pdf

What do Cesare Pavese, Beppe Fenoglio and Primo Levi have in common? Apart from their obvious Piedmontese origins, they and other writers coming from this Italian region share a certain tendency towards multilingualism, which is a characteristic that has not been comprehensively investigated over the years. This study presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern and contemporary narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories here examined are notable for the intriguing way in which they move between a variety of idioms – Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches (with rare excursions into French). With the support of linguistic and philosophical theories on the relation between identity, alterity and language, the book demonstrates how the use of non-standard parlances is fundamental in both reinforcing the sense of belonging to specific social groups and highlighting the presence of dissimilar identities and ‘other’ cultures. A sociolinguistic study and an analysis of the political and historical context of the region are also provided in order to illustrate how the combination of different varieties in literature reflects the region’s peripheral position, as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in Piedmont since the nineteenth century. This book fills a notable gap, and casts new light on Piedmontese literature.

Author : Caterina Bernardini
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609387549

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Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945 by Caterina Bernardini Pdf

"This study gauges the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy in the period from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and the creative responses it facilitated. But it also investigates the contexts and causes of Whitman's success abroad, in the lives, backgrounds, beliefs, and imaginations of the people who encountered it. Ultimately, it chronicles the evolution of a literature intent on regenerating itself and moving toward modernity. Bernardini gives particular attention to women writers and noncanonical writers often excluded from previous discussions of Whitman's Italian reception. The book is grounded in archival studies and examination of primary documents, which led to a series of noteworthy discoveries. While the main focus is on the Italian literary scene, the history of the reception retraced here is constantly evaluated in relation to other cultures that were also intent, in those same years, on reading and recreating Whitman. Studying Whitman's reception from a transnational perspective shows how many countries were simultaneously carving out a new modernity in literature and culture. In this sense, Bernardini not only shows the interconnectedness of various international agents in understanding and contributing to the spread of Whitman's work, but, more largely, a constellation of similar pre-modernist and modernist sensibilities. This stands in contrast to the notion of sudden innovation: modernity was not easy to achieve, and most of all, it did not imply a complete refusal of tradition. Instead, a continuous and fruitful negotiation between tradition and innovation, and not a sudden break with the literary past, is at the very heart of the Italian and transnational reception of Whitman"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : NWU:35556039066261

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Italian Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guido Bonsaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198849469

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America in Italian Culture by Guido Bonsaver Pdf

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and artefacts to travel internationally. Furthermore, improved literacy and social reforms had produced an Italian working class with increased time, money, and education. At the turn of the century, if Italy's ruling elite continued the tradition of viewing Paris as a model of sophistication and good taste, millions of lowly-educated Italians began to dream of America, and many bought a transatlantic ticket to migrate there. By the 1920s, Italians were encountering America through Hollywood films and, thanks to illustrated magazines, they were mesmerised by the sight of Manhattan's futuristic skyline and by news of American lifestyle. The USA offered a model of modernity which flouted national borders and spoke to all. It could be snubbed, adored, or transformed for one's personal use, but it could not be ignored. Perversely, Italy was by then in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship, Mussolini's Fascism. What were the effects of the nationalistic policies and campaigns aimed at protecting Italians from this supposedly pernicious foreign influence? What did Mussolini think of America? Why were jazz, American literature, and comics so popular, even as the USA became Italy's political enemy? America in Italian Culture provides a scholarly and captivating narrative of this epochal shift in Italian culture.

Author : Redaktion Osnabrück
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230259

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2010 by Redaktion Osnabrück Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Massimo Lollini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UOM:39015080732764

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Humanisms, Posthumanisms, & Neohumanisms by Massimo Lollini Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106020242431

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AdI by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cesare Pavese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351471992

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This Business of Living by Cesare Pavese Pdf

On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically destroyed all his private papers. His diary is all that remains and for this the contemporary reader can be grateful. Contemporary speculation attributed this tragedy to either an unhappy love aff air with the American film star Constance Dawling or his growing disillusionment with the Italian Communist Party. His Diaries, however, reveal a man whose art was his only means of repressing the specter of suicide which had haunted him since childhood: an obsession that finally overwhelmed him. As John Taylor notes, he possessed something much more precious than a political theory: a natural sensitivity to the plight and dignity of common people, be they bums, priests, grape-pickers, gas station attendants, office workers, or anonymous girls picked up on the street (though to women, the author could--as he admitted--be as misogynous as he was affectionate). Bitter and incisive, This Business of Living, is both moving and painful to read and stands with James Joyce's Letters and Andre Gide's Journals as one of the great literary testaments of the twentieth century.

Author : Christiane Nord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351189330

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Translating as a Purposeful Activity by Christiane Nord Pdf

This bestselling text is a comprehensive overview of functionalist approaches to translation in English. Christiane Nord, one of the leading figures in translation studies, explains the complexities of theories and terms in simple language with numerous examples. Covering how the theories developed, illustrations of the main ideas, and specific applications to translator training, literary translation, interpreting and ethics, Translating as a Purposeful Activity concludes with a concise review of both criticisms and perspectives for the future. Now with a Foreword by Georges Bastin and a new chapter covering the recent developments and elaborations of the theory, this is an essential text for students of translation studies and for translator training.

Author : Alison Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 051151977X

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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon by Alison Wray Pdf

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self.

Author : Cesare Pavese
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015000685134

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Selected Letters, 1924-1950 by Cesare Pavese Pdf

This is a fascinating treasure trove of correspondence of the great Italian writer in the most fertile years of his career.

Author : Moira Inghilleri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315399812

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Translation and Migration by Moira Inghilleri Pdf

Translation and Migration examines the ways in which the presence or absence of translation in situations of migratory movement has currently and historically shaped social, cultural and economic relations between groups and individuals. Acts of cultural and linguistic translation are discussed through a rich variety of illustrative literary, ethnographic, visual and historical materials, also taking in issues of multiculturalism, assimilation, and hybridity analytically re-framed. This is key reading for students undertaking Translation Studies courses, and will also be of interest to researchers in sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and migration studies.