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Chapter 1 - Reading

from Part I - Positions and Propositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2023

Clive Scott
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
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The translator is first and foremost a reader, who fulfils the act of reading through translation. The chapter goes on to question Habermas’s assumption of a necessary distance between the literary text and the reader. The author’s own version of the literariness of text and of the reader’s part in its construction are then explored, as are the differences between writing and speech. The investigation of the reading experience is developed, to further elaborate the nature of readerly participation: ’Reading is a sympathetic supplementation of text’.

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The Philosophy of Literary Translation
Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
, pp. 15 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Reading
  • Clive Scott, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Philosophy of Literary Translation
  • Online publication: 29 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389976.003
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  • Clive Scott, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Philosophy of Literary Translation
  • Online publication: 29 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389976.003
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  • Reading
  • Clive Scott, University of East Anglia
  • Book: The Philosophy of Literary Translation
  • Online publication: 29 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389976.003
Available formats
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