The Work of Literary Translation

Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous publications include, Translating Baudelaire (2000), Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (2002), Translating Rimbaud's 'Illuminations', (2006), Street Photography: From Atget to Cartier-Bresson (2007), Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading (Cambridge, 2012) Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology (2012), and Translating Apollinaire (2014).

• Introduction; Part I. Thinking One's Way into Literary Translation: Concepts and Readings: 1. Cartesian reading; 2. Untranslatability; 3. Translation and music; 4. The language of translation; 5. Voice in translation; 6. Orality; 7. Multilingualism; 8. Frontiers; 9. Cultures; 10. Choice as work; 11. The temporal nature of text; 12. The notion of the future of the text; Part II. Translation among the Disciplines: 1. Understanding translation as an eco-poetics; 2. Translation as an agent of anthropological/ethnographic awareness; 3. Translation and the re-conception of comparative literature; 4. Translation in pursuit of an appropriate aesthetics; Part III. The Paginal Art of Translation: 5. Text and page: margin and rhythm; 6. Translation and situating the self: punctuation and rhythm; 7. Translation and vocal behaviour: typography and rhythm; 8. Translation as scansion: capturing the multiplicity of rhythm; Conclusion.

'For Clive Scott, the new proximities and the new estrangements wrought by global flows of people, goods, finance, communications - have given literary translators a more urgent part to play than ever before.' Marina Warner, London Review of Books