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Giacomo Leopardi in the Anthropocene: translating the non-human from animals to AI
- Abstract:
- This essay aims to reveal, through the prism of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, the contribution of translation and translation studies to our understanding of the Anthropocene. It foregrounds the importance of translation for getting greater purchase on the notions and experiences of Otherness that have come to define an age characterized by boundary crossing, mass extinction, human-machine interaction, expanding galaxies and interspecies (un)communication. After tracing the historical evolution of translation as a ‘science-art of alterity’, the chapter examines selected animal, celestial and robotic texts by Leopardi. It concludes by suggesting that cultural history has a fundamentally literary-translational engine, one that can help us advance our understanding of human and non-human languages and interactions in the age in which we are living.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.5040/9781350532632.ch-009
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+ Ekström, A
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- Editor
+ Bjærke, MR
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- Editor
+ Brita, B
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- Editor
+ Ødemark, J
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- Editor
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Host title:
- Cultural History and the Anthropocene: Old Turns, New Encounters
- Pages:
- 153-168
- Chapter number:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2025-12-17
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781350532632
- ISBN:
- 9781350532601
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English
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Chapter
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2295221
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pubs:2295221
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- Copyright holder:
- Marta Arnaldi
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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- © Marta Arnaldi. Marit Ruge Bjærke, Brita Brenna, Anders Ekström and John Ødemark 2025. This chapter is published open access subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). You may re-use, distribute, and reproduce this work in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence.
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