Translating Baudelaire

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-85989-658-0
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task and art, Clive Scott explores various theoretical approaches as he goes in search of his own style of translation. In the course of the book, versions of seventeen of Baudelaire's poems are offered, with detailed evaluations of the poems and the translations.

Translating Baudelaire considers two neglected questions: What form should the criticism of translation take, if the critic is to do justice to the translator's 'project'? How can a translator persuade readers to respond to a translation as a text with its own creative dynamic and expressive ambitions?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Clive

Scott, Clive, Prof.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: A defence of foreignizing translation; translating rhythm; the dead language of translation; translating and co-authoring; translation and transformation; "shot" and "reverse shot" translation; the route through prose; the criticisms of translation; translation and intercutting. Appendices: "translations" of translations of "La Cloche felee" texts of of Verlaine's "Nevermore", Elliot's "Nevermore" and Baudelaire's "Le Balcon" text of Baudelaire's "Assommons les pauvres!" text of Baudelaire's "Le Voyage".

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature, University of East Anglia and Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent books include The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Clarendon Press, 1998) and The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (Reaktion Books, 1999).