«Contemporary Imaginaries of Amor-Passio: A Cartography of the
Scientific-Disciplinary Group
10/COMP-01 - Comparative Literature And Literary Theory, 10/SPAN-01 - Spanish And Spanish-American Languages, Literatures, And Cultures
Description
The position entails a comparative analysis of the principal “translation traditions” of Petrarch’s poetry in Spanish and Catalan,from the early modern period to the twenty-first century,with particular attention to the study of contacts among Hispanophone,Francophone,and Anglophone cultural spaces.The activities will include the construction of a research corpus,the textual and socio-historical analysis of translation strategies and “translation imaginaries,”as well as the production of scholarly outputs and materials for the project’s digital platform.The research will further extend the investigation to the contemporary period (twentieth and twenty-first centuries),examining the persistence,transformation,and medialization of the “language of love” across novels,poetry,autofiction,cinema,television series,songs,digital platforms,and video games,in dialogue with the sociology of communication,Cultural Studies,and methodologies in comparative translation studies
Compensation
28,465 Euro
Job posting website
https://www.unict.it/bandi/ricerca-e-trasferimento-tecnologico/incarichi-post-doc
Number of positions
1
Maximum duration
12.0
Funding body
Università degli Studi di Catania
How to apply
Other
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