Caterina Domeneghini (@catedomen) considers the way different translations can reposition a classic novel in history in her review of "The Stronghold," Lawrence Venuti’s new translation of Dino Buzzati. https://t.co/kFDpxY86YU
In a new review, Caterina Domeneghini (@catedomen) studies a surge in translation to English of the work of Dino Buzzati. “This new translation project doesn’t just revive Buzzati,” she argues, “it reframes him.”
https://t.co/VaP7S1e4xS
New at PB: In a new review of Dino Buzzati's "The Bewitched Bourgeouis" (@nyrbclassics), @catedomen asks: How useful is it to apply an Anglo-American cultural label to an Italian writer whose literary landscape lacked a direct equivalent?
https://t.co/VaP7S1e4xS
Our special issue for New American Studies Journal is out and is open access! https://t.co/6h8XFrBBW6. Featuring @XanderManshel on historical fiction, Edwin Frank on @nyrbclassics, Susan Hegeman on classics and culture wars, Rochelle Gurstein on ephemeral masterpieces, & more!
Research spotlights🔎
With projects ranging from racial surveillance to Japanese experimental film, a selection of #WolfsonScholars share their research with the wider group and reflect on their postgraduate experience.
Caterina's post, entitled 'Cheap Books for Everyman', examines cheap ‘classic’ books and their ever-changing defining attributes within the frame of a well-established cultural and educational phenomenon in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
https://t.co/GJhIzy4xis
Two new posts in the Realigning Reception takeover are now up in a Christmas Double Bill! Claire Barnes and Caterina Domeneghini offer two unique perspectives on the subject of 'Classics and the Mass Market'...
Ukraine-born artist Sergey Katran struggled with art-making in the face of war. But deciding he would not be silenced, he conceived an entire exhibition—featured in our slideshow (along with Dostoevskyesque mushrooms!).
An interview with the man himself: https://t.co/yvcmT5TYgR
“Translation . . . is a democratic furnace of hope.”
@catedomen reviews a new collection of essays by trilingual writer Jhumpa Lahiri, unpicking the many strands of a life lived between three languages. https://t.co/9M9Y1twquy
It’s HERE! On the heels of Roe being overturned, our FALL ISSUE centers women's voices and their lived experiences; Kyung-Sook Shin, Montserrat Roig, and Emma Ramadan are in the house!
Discover new work from 32 countries—including a spotlight on #Armenia: https://t.co/iJLv6kUZuk
"If narrative stands as the dominant mode of representing and interpreting reality, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two." @catedomen reviews Peter Brooks’s “Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative.” https://t.co/YkVqFlu1lu
Thank you @sharpamsterdam, Prof. Kuitert and my fellow speakers for a wonderful kick-off. Thrilled to have presented on books as textual universes in Everyman's Library, "Rewriting and reprinting for social change" panel. Loads of food for thought!
"...when we are losing a language, we are also losing a certain perception of the world."
In light of Sergey Katran's latest exhibition, "Until the Word is Gone," @catedomen speaks to the artist about language and the war in his native country, Ukraine:
https://t.co/7hAZAkfXIx
'Here Classics meets anthropology, and the result is a cautionary tale far from the disciplinary romance that Herodotus once envisioned with his own ethnographic enquiry.' (@catedomen)
https://t.co/DYf2AF02jc
Rare Book Collection fellow Caterina Domeneghini @catedomen from @UniofOxford Dept. of English is researching for “Classics in English, English Classics: Reading J. M. Dent’s Everyman’s Library from Greco-Roman Antiquity to Nationalism and World Literature”