Sites of Exchange

European Crossroads and Faultlines
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-2015-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 103, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Crossing borders – both physically and imaginatively – is part of our ‘nomadic’ postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imaginative container of diversity we call Europe. This volume gathers together the work of scholars from several European countries in an attempt to encourage a collective reflection upon historical – and often ‘mythical’ – locations and landscapes, as well as upon the thresholds and faultlines that unite or separate them. The issues the volume tackles are delicate and complex, for the encounter of differences engenders both curiosity and suspicion and there is no easy way to create a new synthesis while respecting and promoting diversity. However, since Europe is inevitably a cultural and political entity ‘in the making’, Europeans should embrace the ‘great narrative’ of a ‘utopian project’, uniting their efforts to work towards a civilisation that is grounded on plurality and openness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ascari, Maurizio

Corrado, Adriana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Maurizio ASCARI and Adriana CORRADO: Introduction
1. The Grand Tour and the Mediterranean
Manfred PFISTER: Travelling in the Traces of…Italian Spaces and the Traces of the Other
Edward CHANEY: Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and Revolution
Marino NIOLA: The Invention of the Mediterranean
Alvio PATIERNO: Vesuvius for Everyone in 19th Century France
Paola PAUMGARDHEN: Goethe and Von Archenholz in Naples in 1787: Views of the City between Myth and Reality
Adriana CORRADO: Glances at Naples, Centre of Campania Felix: First Step towards a Complex Cultural Theme
2. Water and Cultural Memory
David SKILTON: Water and Memory
David SKILTON: Ruin and the Loss of Empire: From Venice and New Zealand to the Thames
Eleonora FEDERICI: Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: Driving through Cities and Landscapes
Franca Zanelli QUARANTINI: Water, Mourning and the Quest for Origin in Irène Némirovsky’s Works
Olga BINCZYK: The Modern Voyage: In Search of Identity in the Light of Selected Works of English Writers of the 1930s
3. Literature and Cityscapes
Monica SPIRIDON: The City of Texts
Susan BASSNETT: Seismic Aftershocks: Responses to the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Katia PIZZI: Sites of Exchange and Topographies of Memory at the Northeastern Borders of Italy
Monica SPIRIDON: Memories of a Post-Metropolis: “Torre e Tasso” across the Atlantic
Peter VASSALLO: Valletta (meta)fictionalised historiographically in Thomas Pynchon’s V
4. Borders and Conflicts
Maurizio ASCARI: Borders, Frontiers and Boundaries
Maurizio ASCARI: Shifting Borders: The Lure of Italy and the Orient in the Writings of 18th and 19th Century British travellers
Graham DAWSON: The ‘Ulster’-Irish Border, Protestant Imaginative Geography and Cultural Memory in the Irish Troubles
Jola ŠKULJ: Cultural Spaces in Border Territories
Paola VILLANI: The Redemption of the Siren
Dianna PICKENS: Captive Naples
Adriana CORRADO: Concluding Remarks
Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Maurizio Ascari is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bologna (Italy). He is the author of In the Palatial Chamber of the Mind (1997), La leggibilità del male (1998) and I linguaggi della tradizione (2005). He has also edited and translated works by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Jack London and William Wilkie Collins.
Adriana Corrado is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, Italy. She has published several books, essays and articles, mostly in the field of Utopian literature and the English Gothic novel. To mention but a few: William Godwin illuminista romantico (1988); Da un’isola all’altra. Il pensier utopico nella narrativa inglese da Thomas More ad Aldous Huxley (1988); Mary Shelley, donna e scrittrice. Una rilettura (2000); Quattro storie di vampiri nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento, ed. by Adriana Corrado (2002); Dall’utopia all’utopismo. Percorsi tematici, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson and Adriana Corrado (2003).