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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| description | 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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| spelling | 123456789-5822026-02-18T06:15:32Z Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture Pierini, Francesca 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. 2025-07-20T07:10:34Z 2025-07-20T07:10:34Z 2016 Thesis https://repository.auw.edu.bd/handle/123456789/582 en application/pdf AUW |
| spellingShingle | Pierini, Francesca Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title | Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title_full | Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title_fullStr | Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title_short | Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture |
| title_sort | trading rationality for tomatoes the consolidation of anglo american national identities in popular literary representations of italian culture |
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