Medieval History
Dear Friends,
The journal Textus -- the official publication of the Italian
Association for English Studies -- will devote its 2011 literature
issue to *Between Italy and the British Isles ? dialogue and
confrontation from the dawn of vernacular literatures to the Act of
Supremacy
*If you are interested, please see the complete call for papers below.
Alessandra*
******************************************************************
*
*/Textus/** XXIV/3 (Sep.-Dec.) ? 2011*
*
*Literature issue
*Between Italy and the British Isles ? dialogue and confrontation
from the dawn of vernacular literatures to the Act of Supremacy*
Editor: Alessandra Petrina (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Co-editor: John Law (Swansea University)
Call for Papers: 5 June 2010
Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2010
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 August 2010
Final version to the editors: 15 December 2010
Edited version to the publisher: 1 September 2011
This issue of /Textus/ focuses on Anglo-Italian relations, exploring
connections, analogies and exchanges in late medieval and early
modern history and literature in English.
In the transition between late medieval Latin and the dawn of
vernacular literatures, the literary map of Europe shows a number of
convergences, facilitated and made relevant by the development of
translation among the various vernaculars. Historical and political
events, together with the geographic collocation of the various
cultural communities, as well as linguistic variants, determine
cultural and literary influences. As recently noted by Alastair
Minnis, the concept of ?vernacular? goes beyond language to
embrace literary traditions, the formation of the canon, cultural
history and the transformation of ideologies.
In this context, the study of the relation between Italian culture
and literatures in Middle and Modern English (including Scottish,
Welsh and Irish variants) has long been an object of critical debate.
Single, extremely significant Italian authors, above all Dante and
Petrarca, have been studied for the role they have played on the
formation of the English canon, and for their influence on major and
minor writers; and the relation between Italian literature and local
vernaculars associated with English (from Middle Scots to Irish) has
been investigated. Italian humanism has been a term of reference for
the study of contemporary and later literature in English. The events
associated with the Reformation have deeply marked the history of
Anglo-.Italian relations, and the vagaries of the circulation of
books and ideas.
Possible aspects that might be taken into consideration include
(though they are by no means limited to) the following:
- Italian culture and the development of the English canon
- Italophobia and Italophilia
- Observing Italy from outside
- Petrarch before Petrarchism
- Travelling topoi: images and concepts crossing geographical borders
- Italian humanism: a changing interpretation
- Translating and appropriating
- Universities: the network of international exchanges
*References:*
Bartlett, Kenneth R., ?The Strangeness of Strangers: English
Impressions of Italy in the Sixteenth Century?, /Quaderni
d?Italianistica/ 1 (1980): pp. 46-63.
Corbett, John, /Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation. A
History of Literary Translation into Scots/, Clevedon: Multilingual
Matters, 1999.
Einstein, Lewis, /The Italian Renaissance in England/. Studies, New
York: The Columbia University Press, 1902.
Ellul-Micallef, Patricia, ?Italian Pride and English Prejudice: The
Reception of Otherness in the Renaissance?, /Journal of
Anglo-Italian Studies/ 6 (2001): pp. 87?101.
Höfele, A. and W. Von Koppenfels, (eds) /Renaissance Go-Betweens.
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe/, ed., Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter, 2005.
Jack, R.D.S., /The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature/,
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972.
Kristeller, Paul Oskar, ?The European Diffusion of Italian
Humanism?, /Italica/ 39: 1962, 1-20.
Lawrence, Jason, "Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?". In
/Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern
England/, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Parks, George B., ?The Firste Italianate Englishmen?, /Studies in
the Renaissance/ 8 (1961): pp. 197-216.
Skinner, Quentin, /The Foundations of Modern Political Thought,
Volume One: The Renaissance/, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1978.
Wallace, David, /Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and
Associational Forms in England and Italy/, Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997.
Wallace, David, ?Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography,
Periodization?, in /New Medieval Literatures 3/, ed. by D. Lawton,
W. Scase and R. Copeland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999: 9-38.
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Textus CFP
Dear Friends,
The journal Textus -- the official publication of the Italian
Association for English Studies -- will devote its 2011 literature
issue to *Between Italy and the British Isles ? dialogue and
confrontation from the dawn of vernacular literatures to the Act of
Supremacy
*If you are interested, please see the complete call for papers below.
Alessandra*
******************************************************************
*
*/Textus/** XXIV/3 (Sep.-Dec.) ? 2011*
*
*Literature issue
*Between Italy and the British Isles ? dialogue and confrontation
from the dawn of vernacular literatures to the Act of Supremacy*
Editor: Alessandra Petrina (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Co-editor: John Law (Swansea University)
Call for Papers: 5 June 2010
Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2010
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1 August 2010
Final version to the editors: 15 December 2010
Edited version to the publisher: 1 September 2011
This issue of /Textus/ focuses on Anglo-Italian relations, exploring
connections, analogies and exchanges in late medieval and early
modern history and literature in English.
In the transition between late medieval Latin and the dawn of
vernacular literatures, the literary map of Europe shows a number of
convergences, facilitated and made relevant by the development of
translation among the various vernaculars. Historical and political
events, together with the geographic collocation of the various
cultural communities, as well as linguistic variants, determine
cultural and literary influences. As recently noted by Alastair
Minnis, the concept of ?vernacular? goes beyond language to
embrace literary traditions, the formation of the canon, cultural
history and the transformation of ideologies.
In this context, the study of the relation between Italian culture
and literatures in Middle and Modern English (including Scottish,
Welsh and Irish variants) has long been an object of critical debate.
Single, extremely significant Italian authors, above all Dante and
Petrarca, have been studied for the role they have played on the
formation of the English canon, and for their influence on major and
minor writers; and the relation between Italian literature and local
vernaculars associated with English (from Middle Scots to Irish) has
been investigated. Italian humanism has been a term of reference for
the study of contemporary and later literature in English. The events
associated with the Reformation have deeply marked the history of
Anglo-.Italian relations, and the vagaries of the circulation of
books and ideas.
Possible aspects that might be taken into consideration include
(though they are by no means limited to) the following:
- Italian culture and the development of the English canon
- Italophobia and Italophilia
- Observing Italy from outside
- Petrarch before Petrarchism
- Travelling topoi: images and concepts crossing geographical borders
- Italian humanism: a changing interpretation
- Translating and appropriating
- Universities: the network of international exchanges
*References:*
Bartlett, Kenneth R., ?The Strangeness of Strangers: English
Impressions of Italy in the Sixteenth Century?, /Quaderni
d?Italianistica/ 1 (1980): pp. 46-63.
Corbett, John, /Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation. A
History of Literary Translation into Scots/, Clevedon: Multilingual
Matters, 1999.
Einstein, Lewis, /The Italian Renaissance in England/. Studies, New
York: The Columbia University Press, 1902.
Ellul-Micallef, Patricia, ?Italian Pride and English Prejudice: The
Reception of Otherness in the Renaissance?, /Journal of
Anglo-Italian Studies/ 6 (2001): pp. 87?101.
Höfele, A. and W. Von Koppenfels, (eds) /Renaissance Go-Betweens.
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe/, ed., Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter, 2005.
Jack, R.D.S., /The Italian Influence on Scottish Literature/,
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972.
Kristeller, Paul Oskar, ?The European Diffusion of Italian
Humanism?, /Italica/ 39: 1962, 1-20.
Lawrence, Jason, "Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?". In
/Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern
England/, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Parks, George B., ?The Firste Italianate Englishmen?, /Studies in
the Renaissance/ 8 (1961): pp. 197-216.
Skinner, Quentin, /The Foundations of Modern Political Thought,
Volume One: The Renaissance/, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1978.
Wallace, David, /Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and
Associational Forms in England and Italy/, Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997.
Wallace, David, ?Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography,
Periodization?, in /New Medieval Literatures 3/, ed. by D. Lawton,
W. Scase and R. Copeland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999: 9-38.
- Syracuse University Examines ?sex And Power From The Middle Ages To The Enlightenment?
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