Translating Baudelaire (Literary Criticism) - Hardcover

Clive Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0859896579 ISBN 13: 9780859896573

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2000

Synopsis

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?

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About the Author

Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature, University of East Anglia and Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent books include The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Clarendon Press, 1998) and The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (Reaktion Books, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859896579
• ISBN 13: 9780859896573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296