The Philosophy of Literary Translation

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-38995-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

While reading transforms texts through memories, associations and re-imaginings, translation allows us to act out our reading experience, inscribe it in a new text, and engage in a dialogic and dynamic relationship with the original. In this highly original new study, Clive Scott reveals the existential and ecological values that literary translation can embody in its perceptual transformation of texts. The transfer of a text from one language into another is merely the platform from which translation launches its larger ambitions, including the existential expansion and re-situation of text towards new expressive futures and ways of inhabiting the world. Recasting language as a living organism and as part of humanity's ongoing duration, this study uncovers its tireless capacity to cross perceptual boundaries, to multiply relations between the human and the non-human and to engage with forms of language which evoke unfamiliar modes of psycho-perception and eco-modelling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Clive

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Positions and Propositions: 1. Reading; 2. Translation and Language; 3. Translation and Interpretation; 4. What the Translation of Poetry Is; II. Dialogue, Movement, Ecology: 5. Dialogue and Dialectic in the Translational Act; 6. Movement, Duration, Rhythm; 7. The Ecological Reach and Promise of Literary Translation Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

Scott, Clive
Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and Emeritus Fellow of the British Academy. His principal research interests lie in French and comparative poetics, literary translation and photography's relationship with writing. His previously published works include The Work of Literary Translation (2018), Translating Apollinaire (2014), Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology (2012) and Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (2012). He delivered the Clark Lectures in 2010 and was 2014–15 President of the Modern Humanities Research Association.