Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture
In The Rhetoric of Empire (1993), David Spurr analyzes journalistic discourse on the Third World and isolates a nucleus of rhetorical figures around which representations of the colonial and post-colonial other are articulated. In this paper, I will borrow, in particular, three of these rhetorica...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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AUW
2025
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| 在线阅读: | https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/582 |
| 总结: | In The Rhetoric of Empire (1993), David Spurr analyzes journalistic discourse on the Third
World and isolates a nucleus of rhetorical figures around which representations of the
colonial and post-colonial other are articulated. In this paper, I will borrow, in particular,
three of these rhetorical figures (naturalization, idealization, appropriation) and I will adapt
them to the context of contemporary Anglo-American representations of Italian culture in
popular literature. I will argue that a substantial number of contemporary works on Italy
retains the basic assumption of a world ordered around a dichotomy between modern cul-
tures and pre-modern ones, and makes of this taxonomy the basic spatiotemporal context
for its narratives. |
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