Silvia Pettini

List of John Benjamins publications in which Silvia Pettini is involved.

Online Resource

Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy

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Articles

Pettini, Silvia 2017 Translating literature into playability: The case of Dante’s Inferno  Game Localisation, Zhang, Xiaochun and Samuel Strong (eds.), pp. 100–119 | Article

From the perspective of Game Localisation (O’Hagan and Mangiron 2013, Bernal-Merino 2015), this paper examines the translation of Dante’s Inferno (Electronic Arts 2010) from English into Italian. Parallel excerpts from in-game dialogues are compared in order to analyse the relationship between… read more

Pettini, Silvia 2015 Auteurism and game localization — revisiting translational approaches: Film quotations in multimedia interactive entertainment Culture & Society issue, pp. 268–288 | Article

In the fertile ground between cinema and video games, Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid saga stands out for its auteur’s clear tendency to use film language and aesthetics and for his evident inspiration from pop culture and the American cinematic tradition. Moreover, the series is rich in quotations… read more