Imaging Italy Through the Eyes of Contemporary Australian Travellers (1990-2010)

Roberta Trapè (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

199 Seiten

2011 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-3197-0 (ISBN)

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For centuries Italy has been the destination of a lifetime for an endless stream of travellers. This book – focussing on the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals – explores an aspect as of yet scarcely studied within the global phenomenon of travel to Italy, and discovers an image of the country starkly different from the one that prevailed in previous writings. From the beginning of the 1990s onwards there has been a sizeable output of books by Australian writers set in or about Italy. After a meticulous examination of these works, Roberta Trapè has selected and analysed those that she considers the most interesting examples of Australians’ continuing fascination with Italy – works of Jeffrey Smart and Shirley Hazzard, and of Robert Dessaix and Peter Robb. Examining the ways the four authors describe Italian places, Imaging Italy looks into what it is that continues to attract Australian writers and artists to the country, and tries to detect new trends in their attitude towards it. The image of Italy that emerges from the most recent works is, no doubt, a superb picture – not flattering but certainly not false – of its contemporary times.

Roberta Trapè holds a PhD in English and American Studies from the University of Florence. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies for five years. She has also written on notions of space in narrating history. Currently resident in Italy, she is applying the ‘spatial turn’ in the social sciences to literary texts and researching the role of encounter in the production of sociability.

Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4438-3197-2 / 1443831972
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-3197-0 / 9781443831970
Zustand	Neuware