Contributions

  • Martin Stannard (Editor) - Contributor
  • Greg Walker (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2002-03-01 - Ashgate Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001022934
  • Goodreads124954

Classifications

  • LCCPQ4053.T75P65 2001
  • LCCPQ4053.T75 P65 2001
  • LCCPQ4053.T75

Description

"Translating Travel examines the relationship between travel writing and translation, asking what happens when books travel beyond the narrow confines of one genre, one literary system and one culture. The volume takes as its starting point the marginal position of contemporary Italian travel writing in the Italian literary system, and proposes a comparative reading of originals and translations designed to highlight the varying reception of texts in different cultures." "Two main themes in the book are the affinity between the representations produced by travel and the practices of translation, and the complex links between travel writing and genres such as ethnography, journalism, autobiography and fiction. Individual chapters are devoted to Italian travellers' accounts of Tibet and their English translations; the hybridization of journalism and travel writing in the works of Oriana Fallaci; Italo Calvino's sublimation of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le citta invisibili; and the complex network of literary references which marked the reception of Claudio Magris's Danubio in different cultures."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 12)HardcoverAshgate Publishing2002-03-01

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