Profiles of Italy: Localising Practices of Swedish Publishing Houses
Cecilia Schwartz
Chapter from the book: Helgesson, S et al. 2018. World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange.
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Chapter from the book: Helgesson, S et al. 2018. World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange.
This chapter provides a methodological path that can be followed in order to find out more about attitudes towards translated literature. It is suggested that by focusing on the publishing houses’ localising practices – especially the selection of titles and the packaging of books – the dynamics that are underlying transnational circulation come to the surface. By describing some useful analytical models and tools, this chapter shows in a tangible way how localising practices can be disclosed. Although the method is applied on a concrete situation in the semi-periphery of world literature – Italian literature in Sweden – it can easily be adapted for exploring a variety of transnational and transcultural relations.
Schwartz, C. 2018. Profiles of Italy: Localising Practices of Swedish Publishing Houses. In: Helgesson, S et al (eds.), World Literatures. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bat.z
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Published on Nov. 22, 2018