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Introduction
No full textThis volume is the result of a university research project entitled ‘Translation and reception of Alessandro Manzoni in nineteenth-century England’ funded by the University of Bari. It pertains to the broad and fertile field of critical studies concerning the interaction between English and Italian letters and cultures. Its focal point is the analysis of the complex relations surrounding the translation and reception of Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (1827) in England and a few years later in America, in the assumption that translation is central and essential to intercultural relations, as Translation Studies has shown.
The critical and theoretical perspective of this study rests on the most recent developments and final convergence of Translation Studies and Cultural Studies, and considers translation as a privileged locus of exchange and negotiation of values and ideologies. Availing themselves of such key trends in translation research as Itamar Even-Zohar’s and Gideon Toury’s ‘polysystem’ theory, and of the fundamental contributions of scholars like Antoine Berman, Lawrence Venuti, and Susan Bassnett, the various researchers have concentrated on specific translations, which have been submitted to detailed description in a perspective that is mainly target oriented. Particular attention has therefore been devoted to the receiving context, considering how and why in England and somewhat later in America the impact of Manzoni’s work was weaker than in France and Germany. As emerges from the analyses, not only a faulty knowledge of Italian but other external factors exerted an ideological influence on reception and on the editorial machine
Cultures in Contact: Translation and Reception of 'I Promessi Sposi' in 19th Century England
No full textCultures in Contact deals with the complex cultural relations surrounding the translation and reception of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel I Promessi Sposi (1827) in nineteenth-century England and a few years later in America.
The critical and methodological perspective of this study rests on the most recent developments and final convergence of Translation Studies and Cultural Studies, and considers translation as a privileged locus of exchange and negotiation of values and ideologies.
The book analyses the situation of the target and source literatures and cultures at the time of the early translations, focusing on the systemic factors determining the selection of texts for translation. Particular attention has been devoted to the receiving context, considering how and why in England and in America the impact of Manzoni’s work was less significant than in France and Germany. A notable intra- and inter-linguistic interdependency of the English and French translations of I Promessi Sposi developed, and, in this perspective, the influence that the early French and English versions exercised on the definitive edition of I Promessi Sposi appears today critically relevant. The textual analysis of the translations has also revealed the importance of paratexts and irony in the way in which they shed light on both the reception of I Promessi Sposi in England and the translators’ wish to direct readers toward a given interpretation of the novel
Sustainable disclosure versus ESG intensity: Is there a cross effect between holding and SRI funds?
No full textSustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds – the largest component of the fast-expanding sustainable financial investment industry – apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) analyses to manage their investment portfolios and are particularly demanding in terms of issuers' disclosure. In this paper we take a step forward and ask whether adopting high-quality sustainability disclosure is important also for SRI funds' holding companies. Specifically, we introduce a novel metrics on the extent of holding companies' sustainability disclosure based on the quality of their Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting. In parallel, we use a standard approach to measure a fund's ESG intensity, that is, the weighted ESG average of a fund's investments. Indeed, we find that an SRI fund's ESG intensity systematically improves when the associated holding company improves its GRI sustainability disclosure. Moreover, we show that this positive effect of holdings' disclosure on a fund's ESG intensity is larger in jurisdictions with less stringent regulation on disclosure, where the signaling value of GRI disclosure is supposedly heightened. Our results do not seem to be driven by endogeneity between a fund's ESG intensity and its holding company's GRI reporting. First, a fund's ESG investment policy and its holding company's sustainability disclosure policy lie on separate decision ladders. Second, we show that the two variables are empirically uncorrelated. Third, our results prove resilient to a battery of robustness checks. The implication of our finding is that holding companies' sustainability disclosure engagement can reap a benefit for their managed SRI funds – provided ESG ratings are reliable –, whose enhanced credibility might prove a key competitive factor
Gli strumenti di comunicazione della responsabilità sociale nelle banche di prossimità: un'analisi del contesto pugliese
No full text“Visualità, ‘second sight’ e fotografia in At the End f the Passage di Rudyard Kipling”
No full textMusica e politica sulle ali del 'Rock’n’roll': migrazioni e contaminazioni
No full textL’ultima opera teatrale di Tom Stoppard, "Rock’n’roll", rappresentata per la prima volta a Londra nel giugno del 2006 e diretta da Trevor Nunn, sviluppa il concetto di migrazione su piani e assi diversi, spostandosi sincronicamente e in modo intermittente tra l’Inghilterra e la Cecoslovacchia (il protagonista è un ex emigrato ceco che torna al suo paese di origine, ma mantiene i suoi rapporti con Cambridge) e diacronicamente, dagli anni Sessanta ai Novanta. Centrale è il modo in cui l’autore rappresenta la trasformazione di un sogno generazionale, quello legato a valori e ideali appartenenti a una congerie storico-culturale unica quale quella del ’68, nel transito tra contesti geografici e sociali diversi e tra periodi storici diversi, trasferendosi quindi sul piano della memoria, e offrendo anche un interessante spunto di riflessione sul concetto stesso di ‘generazione’. Traendo ispirazione da alcuni scritti di Vaclav Havel, il drammaturgo fa però della musica il perno intorno al quale avvita il processo memoriale dell’opera. Negli anni Sessanta, interessati da una fondamentale convergenza delle arti e dei piani culturali alto/basso, nonché dal fiorire degli studi intorno alla nascente e subito proliferante pop culture, la musica pop e rock assume una posizione di assoluto protagonismo, facendosi portatrice di valori libertari e protestatari in un clima transnazionale di infuocata insofferenza verso ogni forma di gerarchia o istituzione. L’opera di Stoppard indugia quindi sulla fecondità della contaminazione tra musica e politica, musica e cultura, musica e vita nel veicolare quel ‘complessivo modo del sentire’ di una generazione, il cui transito è seguito per tappe musicali tra il ’68 e il ’90: tra la contestazione e la fine del conservatorismo di ‘ferro’, tra la Primavera di Praga e la Rivoluzione di velluto
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
The representation of mission on institutional and corporate websites : a case of migration of discursive practices
No full textIn most Western countries, citizens’ trust and confidence in Public Administration (PA) as a professional agent of the government suffered a significant decline during the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the 20th century the crisis in public organizations were viewed both as a policy and managerial failure.
As a consequence, public service underwent reform, and was reconfigured according to new criteria of good management and effective leadership. To meet public needs and expectations, public administrators were required to formulate strategies, articulate their mission and strengthen marketing and customer-orientation, championing a vision of the ‘New Public Management’ or ‘Neo-Managerialism’.
This rapid change has penetrated the UK public sector, but it can also be seen as a part of a more wider process of socio-cultural change affecting the business sector as well. Just as public organizations are increasingly adopting business-like approaches and logics, so are companies giving greater attention to social responsibility. Thus, this perspective suggests that ‘sector blurring’ is indeed a reality: no longer can organizations be easily classified by conventional labels and new concepts of publicness and privateness are evolving.
This paper presents preliminary observations and findings from an exploratory analysis conducted on a set of city council websites, based in the UK, and a similar set of websites for businesses based in the UK. Focus is given to the presence or absence of common features connected to a standalone or incorporated mission which provide insights into the processes of change in institutional and corporate discursive practices and about the functions and values of the organizations. On this view, the analysis draws on work grounded in the awareness that language use is a form of social practice that shapes society
Remembering Slavery 1807-2007. A View from Manchester
No full textThe article documents ways in which the city of Manchester marked the bicentenary anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade in 2007. By analyzing the wide range of events which were offered to the community, the article argues that by emphasizing the links between the past - and often hidden - history of Britain and the enduring legacy of slavery in the country, this series of events actually helped to expand the remit of heritage and the heritage industry and ultimately projected revised versions of Englishness
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