The Philosophy of Literary Translation
Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
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- Author: Clive Scott, University of East Anglia
- Date Published: August 2023
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009389952
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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.
Read more- Situates our experience of reading at the heart of the life of the text, re-empowering the reader and re-balancing a long-running scholarly bias towards textual analysis
- Shows how translation explores and extends the dynamic of reading, enabling us to cross perceptual boundaries and multiply relations with the world
- Explodes the myth of language as the barrier between human and non-human worlds, showing how translation reasserts the physicality of voice and self-expression and opens up new possibilities for breaking down barriers between the human and what lies outside us
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'It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Clive Scott's thinking to our contemporary understandings of literary translation. His work is innovative, detailed, compelling and persuasive. In placing the art of the literary translator at the heart of our engagements with reading and writing, he shows how much is at stake for the the wider culture as we negotiate multilingual difference in a time of ecological vulnerability.' Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin
See more reviews'The Philosophy of Literary Translation has the rare virtue of synthesizing deep knowledge of historical thought about language with the insights and recursive questions that emerge from the author's own vibrant translation practice. Clive Scott's foregrounding of the polyglot reader, his empathetic accounts of the experience and drama of reading, and the facility with which he sets theorists in dialogue with one another across time and place generate a lucid and engrossing intellectual journey into creative practice. This is an important, beautifully argued book.' Annmarie Drury, Queens College, City University of New York
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- Date Published: August 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009389952
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.569kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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