The Philosophy of Literary Translation

Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and Emeritus Fellow of the British Academy. His principal research interests lie in French and comparative poetics, literary translation and photography's relationship with writing. His previously published works include The Work of Literary Translation (2018), Translating Apollinaire (2014), Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology (2012) and Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (2012). He delivered the Clark Lectures in 2010 and was 2014–15 President of the Modern Humanities Research Association.

• 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.

'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