The Philosophy of Literary Translation: Dialogue, Movement, Ecology

by Clive Scott

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009389955
• ISBN13: 9781009389952
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"