Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception

Contents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nPart I A Poetics of Fusion: Cultural Appropriation, Multilingualism, Translingual Writing\nChapter 1 D’Annunzio and the Greek and Latin Classics\nChapter 2 D’Annunzio and Japonism\nChapter 3 Il Piacere as a Multilingual Text and its Afterlife in Translation\nChapter 4 ‘The essence of the race’: La figlia di Iorio and Italian Dialects\nChapter 5 The ‘Latin sister’: D’Annunzio’s Relationship to the French Language\nPart II Translators as Transcultural Negotiators\nChapter 6 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Georges Hérelle: Virility, Machismo and the Homoerotic\nChapter 7 After Hérelle: André Doderet, the (In)visible Translator\nChapter 8 ‘An Artist in Translation’: D’Annunzio, Arthur Symons and Symbolist Drama\nChapter 9 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Karl Gustav Vollmoeller: From Classical Culture to the Attractions of Motor Power\nPart III D’Annunzio’s Global Fin-de-siècle Reception\nChapter 10 Fin-de-Meiji as Fin-de-siècle: D’Annunzio and Japanese Literature\nChapter 11 D’Annunzio’s Feminine Archetypes, Nationalist Ideology and Catalan Modernism\nChapter 12 Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Austrian Reception after Italy’s Entry into the War\nPart IV Complex Legacies\nChapter 13 D’Annunzio and Argentina: From Elitism to Mass Nationalism\nChapter 14 Gabriele D’Annunzio in the United States: Politics and Stereotypes\nChapter 15 The Myth of Gabriele D’Annunzio in Russian Culture, 1890–2010: From ‘Songs of the Native Land’ to the ‘Winged Cyclops’\nChapter 16 From ‘Great Italian Poet’ to ‘Fascist Writer’: D’Annunzio and Arabic Culture\nChapter 17 Morlach’s Blood in Fiume’s Mensa: D’Annunzio and the Intimate Adriatic\nChapter 18 Infatuated with Il Vate: Mishima’s Transnational Mimesis of D’Annunzio as Decadent Poet, Patriot and Celebrity\nD’Annunzio in the Twenty-First Century\nBibliography\nIndex