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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Clive, 1943- Author.

Contributor:

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

Translating and interpreting.

Literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature--Translations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Scott, Clive, 1943- Philosophy of literary translation

ISBN:

9781009389952

1009389955

9781009389945

1009389947

OCLC:

1369032739