Chapter 2 D’Annunzio and Japonism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I A Poetics of Fusion: Cultural Appropriation, Multilingualism, Translingual Writing
6. Chapter 1 D’Annunzio and the Greek and Latin Classics 29
7. Chapter 2 D’Annunzio and Japonism 48
8. Chapter 3 Il Piacere as a Multilingual Text and its Afterlife in Translation 67
9. Chapter 4 ‘The essence of the race’: La figlia di Iorio and Italian Dialects 85
10. Chapter 5 The ‘Latin sister’: D’Annunzio’s Relationship to the French Language 102
11. Part II Translators as Transcultural Negotiators
12. Chapter 6 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Georges Hérelle: Virility, Machismo and the Homoerotic 123
13. Chapter 7 After Hérelle: André Doderet, the (In)visible Translator 141
14. Chapter 8 ‘An Artist in Translation’: D’Annunzio, Arthur Symons and Symbolist Drama 160
15. Chapter 9 Gabriele D’Annunzio and Karl Gustav Vollmoeller: From Classical Culture to the Attractions of Motor Power 180
16. Part III D’Annunzio’s Global Fin-de-siècle Reception
17. Chapter 10 Fin-de-Meiji as Fin-de-siècle: D’Annunzio and Japanese Literature 201
18. Chapter 11 D’Annunzio’s Feminine Archetypes, Nationalist Ideology and Catalan Modernism 221
19. Chapter 12 Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Austrian Reception after Italy’s Entry into the War 232
20. Part IV Complex Legacies
21. Chapter 13 D’Annunzio and Argentina: From Elitism to Mass Nationalism 251
22. Chapter 14 Gabriele D’Annunzio in the United States: Politics and Stereotypes 267
23. Chapter 15 The Myth of Gabriele D’Annunzio in Russian Culture, 1890–2010: From ‘Songs of the Native Land’ to the ‘Winged Cyclops’ 285
24. Chapter 16 From ‘Great Italian Poet’ to ‘Fascist Writer’: D’Annunzio and Arabic Culture 305
25. Chapter 17 Morlach’s Blood in Fiume’s Mensa: D’Annunzio and the Intimate Adriatic 316
26. Chapter 18 Infatuated with Il Vate: Mishima’s Transnational Mimesis of D’Annunzio as Decadent Poet, Patriot and Celebrity 330
27. D’Annunzio in the Twenty-First Century 345
28. Bibliography 358
29. Index 393