The Pragmatic Translator

The Pragmatic Translator
Author: Massimiliano Morini
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441151303

Showcases a descriptive theory of translation based on pragmatics, describing all processes and products of translation on the performative, interpersonal and locative axes.

The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe

The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe
Author: Murray Pittock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0567629198

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Burns' work across Europe and includes bibliographies of major translations of his work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of his reception on the continent.

Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
Author: Massimo Bacigalupo
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1949979016

Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry. Only by following his footsteps, acquaintances and composition processes can we make sense of and enjoy his forbidding Cantos. This study provides for the first time an account of Pound’s Italian wanderings and of what they became in his work. After this study we will be able to read Pound as a guide to the places, people and books he loved, and we will share his the poet traveler’s joys and discoveries.

JULIUS CAESAR 1935: Shakespeare and Censorship in Fascist Italy

JULIUS CAESAR 1935: Shakespeare and Censorship in Fascist Italy
Author: Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher: Skenè. Texts and Studies
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2019-12-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

On 1 August 1935, only a few months before Mussolini launched the colonial enterprise in Ethiopia, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was produced at the Maxentius Basilica in Rome. The performance was organised by The National Workers’ Recreational Club (O.N.D.) and the script was submitted for censorship. However, the procedure followed a different course from the usual one as the commissioner was also part of the Fascist political system. This parallel edition presents for the first time the integral script of the censored text of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, in Raffaello Piccoli's 1925 Italian translation, and explores the implications of this peculiar type of censorship at the moment when, through Shakespeare, censoring became one and the same with political propaganda.

Marshall Mcluhan

Marshall Mcluhan
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Isbn Edizioni
Total Pages: 154
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 8876383271

Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) predicted the effects of electronic media on modern culture as early as 1964. McLuhan published several breakthrough books and coined terms like "hot" and "cool" media, "the global village," and "the medium is the message."