In Praise of Art and Literature: Intertextuality, Translations and Migrations of Knowledge in Anna Jameson’s Travel Writings.

Sull'articolo: The study explores travel literature as a hybrid genre constructed through a process of translations, intertextual movements and trans-codification of art forms. Anna Jameson's writings (19th Century) are examined as emblematic of this process, directed towards women's emancipation and education. Art and litertaure are thus seen as expressions of a moral and cultural ideology conveyed through aesthetic forms. Si include synopsis su tutto il volume pubblicato online su www.informaworld.com : Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life Writing", aims to be a theoretically challenging, analytical book of essays that describes the diversity of shapes transcultural life writing takes, demonstrating how it has become one of the most dynamic and productive literary forms of self-inscription and self-representation.1 This work expands much contemporary criticism on life writing, which tends to center on content - representations of race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, and so forth - rather than on the actual construction of the text and its performative possibilities. This collection of essays demonstrates that reading contemporary forms of life writing from a literary perspective is a rich field of critical intervention, which has been overlooked because of recent cultural studies' concern with material issues.