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This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the
reception, translation, and artistic reinterpretation of Italo
Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world. The book traces
the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has been
read, translated and adapted in Brazil, France, The Netherlands and
Flanders, Mexico, Romania, Scandinavia, the USSR, China, Poland,
Japan and Australia, as well as offering analyses of the relation
between Calvino's book and, respectively, the East and Africa, and
reflections on the book's inspiration for and resonance in dance,
architecture and art. The volume thus traces the diversity in the
reception and circulation of Invisible Cities in different
countries and continents, offering a much wider framework for the
discussion of Calvino’s masterpiece than before, and a more
detailed picture of its cultural and linguistic ramifications. This
book will be of interest to scholars in Comparative Literature,
World Literature, Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Romance
Languages, European Studies, Dance, Architecture and Media Studies,
as well as to scholars specialised in paratext and reception.
This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish
publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the
role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature
from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels,
using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the
role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under
which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is
not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral
transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting
of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might
be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an
area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular
Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of
the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' - or rather, the
processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization - which
provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature and
literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the
semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the
understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the
cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the
rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that
have not yet been thoroughly explored. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
This open access book uses Swedish literature and the Swedish
publishing field as recurring examples todescribe and analyse the
role of the literary semi-peripheral position in world literature
from various perspectives and on meso, micro and macro levels,
using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This includes the
role of translation in the semi-periphery and the conditions under
which literature travels to and from that position. The focus is
not on Sweden, as such, but rather on the semi-peripheral
transitional space as exemplified by the Swedish case. Consisting
of three co-written chapters, this study sheds light on what might
be called the semi-peripheral condition or the semi-periphery as an
area of transition. As part of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular
Dynamics in World Literatures series, it makes continuous use of
the concepts of 'cosmopolitan' and 'vernacular' – or rather, the
processual terms, cosmopolitanization and vernacularization –
which provide an overall structure to the analysis of literature
and literary phenomena. In this way, the authors show that the
semi-periphery is an ideal point of departure to further the
understanding of world literature, because it is a place where the
cosmopolitan (the literary universal) and the vernacular (the
rootedness in a particular culture or place) interact in ways that
have not yet been thoroughly explored. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
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