Translating Baudelaire Contributor(s): Scott, Clive Prof (Author) |
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ISBN: 0859896579 ISBN-13: 9780859896573 Publisher: University of Exeter Press OUR PRICE: $110.88 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: 'Clive Scott's Translating Baudelaire offers exhilarating perspectives on the practice of (verse) translation. Imbued with a postmodernist sense of the mobility and provisionality of text, he seeks to liberate the translator from what he calls 'pre-postmodernist' anxieties . . . His unrivalled ability to analyse French verse and his remarkable talents as a wordsmith, indeed as a poet, combine to produce compelling renderings of some of Baudelaire's finest verse. His book is an intoxicating invitation to jouissance, promising redemption from 'a state of punishment, in which we are compelled to reiterate our sense of loss'. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Poetry |
Dewey: 841 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.33 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Scott, Clive: - Clive Scott is professor emeritus of European literature at the University of East Anglia. |