Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations - Softcover

Scott, Prof. Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859897699 ISBN 13: 9780859897693

Publisher: University of Exeter, 2006

Synopsis

Translating Rimbaud’s Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing. It also provides a reassessment of Rimbaud’s creative impulses and specifically his prose poems, the Illuminations.

In the expanding field of translation studies, a brilliant and demanding book such as this has a valuable place. In addition, it also provides some fascinating ‘hands on’ translation work of a very practical kind. Published as a sequel to the author’s Translating Baudelaire (UEP, 2000), it will become part of the canon.

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About the Author

Clive Scott is Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications over the last few years include Translating Baudelaire (University of Exeter Press, 2000); Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002); The Spoken Image: Photography and Language (Reaktion, 1999); The Poetics of French Verse: Studies in Reading (Clarendon, 1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859897699
• ISBN 13: 9780859897693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352