The philosophy of literary translation : dialogue, movement, ecology / Clive Scott, University of East Anglia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Clive, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

Translating and interpreting.

Literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2023).

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ISBN:

9781009389976 (ebook)