Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish

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Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . / Jansen, Hanne.

Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. ed. / Luc van Doorslaer; Peter Flynn; Joep Leerssen. Vol. Translation Liberya 119 John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. p. 163-179.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Jansen, H 2016, Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . in L van Doorslaer, P Flynn & J Leerssen (eds), Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. vol. Translation Liberya 119, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 163-179.

APA

Jansen, H. (2016). Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . In L. van Doorslaer, P. Flynn, & J. Leerssen (Eds.), Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology (Vol. Translation Liberya 119, pp. 163-179). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Vancouver

Jansen H. Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . In van Doorslaer L, Flynn P, Leerssen J, editors, Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. Vol. Translation Liberya 119. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2016. p. 163-179

Author

Jansen, Hanne. / Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. editor / Luc van Doorslaer ; Peter Flynn ; Joep Leerssen. Vol. Translation Liberya 119 John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. pp. 163-179

Bibtex

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