Elisa Segnini speaks to Frederika Randall: tilting at the Leaning Tower, or translating irony in two writers from Northeast Italy

ABSTRACT

In this conversation, we address the effect of the internationalization of the book market on the world-wide circulation of Italian fiction; the ethics and responsibility of the translator of Italian classics into American English, and the challenges entailed in translating irony.

KEYWORDS:

• Irony
• multilingualism
• Luigi Meneghello
• Ippolito Nievo
• Frederika Randall

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council;

Notes on contributors

Elisa Segnini

Elisa Segnini is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests include the translation, circulation and international reception of Italian fiction and the poetics and politics of multilingual texts.