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The Graduate Students' Association of Italian Studies is proud to
present the conference "Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and
Remaking Italian Literature".
It will take place 6-7 May 2011 at Alumni Hall 100, University of
Toronto (121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON).
A copy of the program can be downloaded at:
http://chass.utoronto.ca/italgrad/conference.html
This event is free and open to the public.
Since its first formulation as "intersemiotic translation" by Roman
Jakobson in 1959, the notion of adaptation has inspired various
theoretical and critical approaches. Adaptations of literary works,
whether for the stage, for the screen or for other visual media,
together with remakes within the same medium, tell us much about the
destination culture's appropriation of earlier forms. Adapting a text
is also a way of re-reading it, thereby expanding its possible
meanings: this form of intertextuality is represented, for example, in
the late-modernist and post-modernist aesthetics of parody. In more
recent years, aspects of this concept can be found in the popular
notion of "transmedia storytelling" (Jenkins 2006) and in the category
of "miramaxing" proposed by Jim Collins (2010) to identify the complex
interplay between the screening of literary masterpieces, the
representation of reading pleasures, and the taste of popular cinema.
Considering these and other conceptions of adaptation in the Italian
context leads to critical questions. Perhaps most importantly, how do
these forms of re-writing affect the core of Italian culture? Is
Italian literature "transposing" itself through a variety of tastes,
media and techniques?
Our conference will investigate this conceptual node by exploring
modes and problems of adaptations, including many different media
(theatre, literature, cinema, comics, and traditional artistic
iconography) in post-Unification Italian culture. In particular, we
wish to explore the ways in which the poetics of adaptation have
influenced the historical construction of Italian identity and the
founding of a nation-wide spoken Italian.
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