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Can the unprecedented rise of the historical genre in Italy after 1980 be explained out of the «Umberto Eco effect» alone, as many critics believe? Why are so many Italians nowadays inclined to believe in their Celtic origins? How many middle Ages were there and do we actually live in a high-tech version of them? Has Italy ever been unified? This book discusses the ongoing literary quest for new collective identities in the present-day Italian nation challenged by European integration, globalisation and the burgeoning regionalism, and shows the intricate routes of historical revision on which contemporary Italian fiction embarks.

Multilingualism is a phenomenon that has become increasingly visible in popular cinema and thus is currently a very novel object of academic inquiry. The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary takes on this phenomenon and its different aspects. Its topics range from translation theory to political and aesthetic quandaries of audiovisual translation and subtitling, to narratological function of multilingualism in fiction, to language ideologies and language poetics onscreen. Its authorship is a worldwide body of perspectives, whose contributions span a distinctive collection of international, national and regional film traditions.

Mit der Entwicklung des Web 2.0. sind digitale Medien und Netzwerke zum Teil unseres Alltags geworden. Von Facebook und Twitter zu YouTube und Blogspot: Soziale, kulturelle, religiöse, ökonomische und politische Räume entwickeln sich mittlerweile auch im weltumspannenden Netz, erlauben die Verständigung über die gegenwärtige Situation und lassen die einstige Unterscheidung zwischen ‚online und offline-Welten‘, dem ‚virtuellen‘ und dem ‚realen, physischen‘ Raum obsolet werden. Diese digitalen Räume werden inzwischen nicht mehr als abgegrenzt betrachtet, sondern vielmehr als Kontinuum sozialer Felder verstanden, die von unterschiedlichen Praktiken und transnationaler Kommunikation gekennzeichnet sind.