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oa Chapter 3. Literary journals and book series as agents of consecration

Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka in the Italian literary field (1908–1938)

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If “texts circulate without their contexts” (Bourdieu 1999), how can a translated author acquire symbolic capital in a new literary field? A very significant agent of consecration can be found in literary journals and book series that, according to their own position in the field of reception, may have an interest in including some foreign authors in their repertoire, so sharing and potentially increasing their respective symbolic capitals. By discussing the case of Thomas Mann’s and Franz Kafka’s Italian trajectories and the development of the Italian literary field in the first decades of the 20th century, this paper proposes a new theoretical perspective on the relationship between translated literature and national literary history, based on the experience of the research project LTit (www.ltit.it).

  • Affiliations: 1: Università 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' di Chieti-Pescara

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  3. Bourdieu, Pierre
    1996 The Rules of the Art. Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field. Cambridge: Polity.
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  4. 1999 “The Social Conditions of the International Circulation of Ideas”. Bourdieu. A critical Reader, ed. by Richard Shusterman : 220–228. Oxford: Blackwell.
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  7. Casanova, Pascale
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     [Google Scholar]
  8. Costagli, Simone
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     [Google Scholar]
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    1870 Storia della letteratura italiana. Napoli: Morano.
     [Google Scholar]
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    1990a “The Position of Translated Literature within the Literary Polysystem”. Polysystem Studies [= Poetics Today 11 (1)]: 45–51.
     [Google Scholar]
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    eds 2002a Traduction: les échanges littéraires internationaux [= Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 144].
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     [Google Scholar]
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    1998 Method in Translation History. Manchester: St. Jerome.
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  20. Rundle, Christopher
    2010 Publishing Translations in Fascist Italy. Oxford: Peter Lang.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Sapiro, Gisèle
    2008 “Translation and the field of publishing. A Commentary on Pierre Bourdieu’s A Conservative Revolution in Publishing from a Translation Perspective”. Translation Studies, 1 (2): 154–67. 10.1080/14781700802113473
     https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700802113473 [Google Scholar]
  22. ed 2009 Les Contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale. Paris: Nouveau Monde. 10.14375/NP.9782847363920
     https://doi.org/10.14375/NP.9782847363920 [Google Scholar]
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    2008 La prima fortuna di Thomas Mann in Italia. PhD diss., Università degli Studi di Padova.
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  24. Sisto, Michele
    2019 Traiettorie. Studi sulla letteratura tradotta in Italia. Quodlibet: Macerata. 10.2307/j.ctvj7wnt8
     https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvj7wnt8 [Google Scholar]

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