Fashion Narrative and Translation - Is Vanity Fair?

Fashion Narrative and Translation explores fashion in narrative and translation featuring a corpus of descriptions in comparative literature. The book is divided into themes introducing crucial issues in fashion discourse and translation studies, including cinematic adaptation 'from page to screen' and costume design.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Stuff of Words
Chapter One: Fashion Semantics
Chapter Two: Women, Vanity, and Mortiferous Mirrors
Chapter Three: The Ambiguity of Luxury and Eastern Temptations
Chapter Four: From Bonfires to Bonnets: The Antinomies of Fashion Discourse
Chapter Five: The Balls before the Battles
Chapter Six: Ribbons and Laces: Symbols of Seduction
Chapter Seven: Taming, Tailoring, and Domestication: The Shrew Translated
Chapter Eight: Manhattan Macabre, Murders and the Made in Italy
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Rosanna Masiola is a retired professor of English, translation, and Anglo-American literature at the University for Foreigners of Perugia.

Summary

Fashion Narrative and Translation explores fashion in narrative and translation featuring a corpus of descriptions in comparative literature. The book is divided into themes introducing crucial issues in fashion discourse and translation studies, including cinematic adaptation ‘from page to screen’ and costume design.

Product details

• Authors: Rosanna Masiola, Masiola Rosanna
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781793647290
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-729-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism