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Research seminar by Dr María Laura Spoturno (Universidad de la Plata, Argentina; and Visiting Research Fellow at U. Edinburgh), on "Retranslation and Multimodality: Rethinking Drama Translation Within and Beyond Words".

María Laura Spoturno is Associate Professor of Literary Translation and US-American Literature at Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP) and a Researcher with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

Her current research focuses on the study of subjectivity and (self) (re) translation practices, self-translation and exile, and the relation between translation, gender and feminisms.

Find the readings for week 7 here: /fac/arts/arthistory/news/researchseminars2019-20/

Respondent: Prof Jennifer Burns (ÌÇÐÄTV)

Abstract: The enduring and palpable significance of Levi's most famous book in terms of testimony, analysis, meditation and warning should not obliterate its literary value. And this not only in the sense that the book has literary value, which deserves to be appreciated and investigated in its own right; but also in the sense that it addresses the meaning and purpose of literature within the very specific circumstances from which it arose. Admittedly, it does this most of the time by indirect means; but on at least one occasion in the course of the narrative the blinding power of an exemplary situation is such as to justify the suggestion that what Levi is setting up for the reader is nothing less than an allegory of the literary act itself. The focus of this talk will be Chapter 11 of Se questo è un uomo, "Il canto di Ulisse".