https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129272 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:08:08 GMT 2026-04-25T15:08:08Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129482 Title: Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies : volume 16 Authors: Vassallo, Peter; Lauri Lucente, Gloria Abstract: Table of Contents:; - Translating Elizabeth Gaskell: Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, A Dark Night's Work: Mara Barbuni; - "Learned Italian things": W.B. Yeats and Italian Renaissance Aesthetics: Peter Vassallo; - "Such is the Working of the Southern Mind": A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster's Italian Narratives: Francesca Pierini; - Tradurre A Passage to India di E.M. Forster: reiterazioni verbali, ritrno narrativo e vuoti ermeneutici: Tania Zulli; - Nostalgia in John Fante's "Home Sweet Home": Francesca D 'Alfonso; - "Dove sta memoria": Charles Tomlinson and the Chimes of Italy: Francesco Marroni; - "Nothing is as it seems": Venice and its Spectral Other in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now: Gloria Lauri-Lucente; - Notes on Contributors Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129482 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129480 Title: Translating Elizabeth Gaskell : Sylvia's lovers, Wives and daughters, A dark night's work Authors: Barbuni, Mara Abstract: In the past decade or so, Italy has witnessed an intense revival of Elizabeth Gaskell's literature, thanks to new essays and especially to new translations of her novels and short stories. This contribution, authored by the translator of the first Italian editions of Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, Sylvia's Lovers and A Dark Night's Work, offers an overview of her methods of translation by focusing on her personal approach to the texts, her lexical choices and, in general, the main challenges put forward by Gaskell's language and contexts. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129480 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129479 Title: "Learned Italian things" : W. B. Yeats and Italian Renaissance aesthetics Authors: Vassallo, Peter Abstract: This essay deals with W.B. Yeats's fascination with Renaissance Italy which he eventually appropriated as a model for the Irish literary revival and the harmonization of Unity of Culture in the coalescing of religious, aesthetic and practical life. Yeats found inspiration in Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, especially the fourth section of this manual of courtly accomplishments which contained Pietro Bembo's exposition of physical and aesthetic beauty. This book enabled him to construct other versions of himself, a sort of histrionic self fashioning in his endeavor to "re-make" himself. The essay will also focus on Yeats's abiding interest in Renaissance art, especially the paintings of Mantegna and Titian, and the influence of these artists on the composition of his later poetry. In his appropriation of the Renaissance, Yeats was consciously aligning himself with the "pagan" aesthetics of Pater while repudiating the moralistic tenets of Ruskin and Arnold. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129479 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129478 Title: "Such is the working of the Southern mind" : a postcolonial reading of E. M. Forster's Italian narratives Authors: Pierini, Francesca Abstract: This article discusses E.M. Forster's "Italian narratives", a literary corpus that reveals the complexity, the ambivalence, and the richness of Britain's relation to the European South. Forster's narratives present, through the interplay of their characters, a vast array of approaches and attitudes towards Italian culture. By making use of a long cultural and literary tradition that depicts Italy as the bearer of a unique constellation of counter-values perceived at the opposite spectrum of British ideals, Forster builds a series of narratives dominated by a game of revulsion and attraction towards the Italian Other, which is characterized by powerful and contradicting patterns. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/129478 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z