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      Italy Made in Britain: Contemporary British Perspectives on Italian Culture

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          This special issue of Modern Languages Open is about how contemporary Britain perceives and imagines Italy, and how it mirrors itself in Italy’s image. It aims at interrogating the current clichés about Italy, showing how imagery about the country is multi-faceted and prismatic, highlighting areas of dialogue as well as tendencies towards stereotyping. It problematizes the images of Italy as it is seen in various layers of British society – from the media, to film, to politics – showing how the construction of the southern European country still corresponds to a horizon of expectations more than to reality. Initially inspired by the one-day conference Italy Made in England, held at the University of Warwick on 22nd February 2014 and funded by the Warwick Humanities Research Centre, this special issue emerges from an ongoing dialogue among a group of scholars whose work focuses on the interaction between Italian and British culture.

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                Journal
                2052-5397
                Modern Languages Open
                Liverpool University Press
                2052-5397
                22 March 2018
                2018
                : 2018
                : 1
                : 3
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Warwick, GB
                [2 ]University College Cork, IE
                [3 ]University of Bristol, GB
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                10.3828/mlo.v0i0.195
                2a96bcf8-1317-42f3-80d2-e922ee03e1b1
                Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                Comparative literature studies,Philosophy of language,Literature of other nations & languages,Languages of Europe

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