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Chapter 4 - What the Translation of Poetry Is

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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This chapter is a declaration of the author’s translational assumptions: rhythm is a force that resists the signified; translation promotes sense-making rather than the gathering of meaning, the relational and the associative rather than the intelligible; back-translation is indispensable to translational exchange and dialecticity; translation operates most fruitfully in the ST’s invisible; the text is not the ST but the totality of its possibilities. A translation of Rilke’s sonnet to Orpheus 1, 5 exemplifies this notion of totality. And the translational involvement of the performing body is illustrated in a translation of the first stanza of Verlaine’s ’En sourdine’. In conclusion, the chapter revisits distinctions between vocative and accusative perspectives, sense and meaning.

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The Philosophy of Literary Translation
Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
, pp. 69 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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