Translating the Perception of Text - Literary Translation and Phenomenology

This book is about translating the perception of text; but that involves the elaboration, from reading, of a text of perception, a text capable of registering the complexities of language-based perception. It offers the phenomenology that has its primary source in the work of Merleau-Ponty.

List of contents

Introduction Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language 1. Merleau-Ponty: Language, Painting and Translation Literary Translation as Phenomenology 2. Overwriting 3. Listening and Speaking: Sounds 4. Listening and Speaking: Rhythm 5. Writing and Speaking 6. Translating the Time and Space of Languages 7. Conclusion: Translation and the Other

About the author

Clive Scott

Summary

This book is about translating the perception of text; but that involves the elaboration, from reading, of a text of perception, a text capable of registering the complexities of language-based perception. It offers the phenomenology that has its primary source in the work of Merleau-Ponty.

Product details

• Authors: Clive Scott, Scott Clive
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367603564
• ISBN: 978-0-367-60356-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general