Intermediality and synaesthesia: Literary translation as centrifugal practice

Scott, Clive (2010) Intermediality and synaesthesia: Literary translation as centrifugal practice. Art in Translation, 2 (2). pp. 153-169. ISSN 1756-1310

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Abstract

Scott argues for literary translation as a centrifugal practice. This dispersal is also a proliferation, which looks to develop a prosthetics of language through the multiplication of sensory associations. But there are obvious limitations to overcome: the constraints of the alphabet parallel those of notation in modern music and require a new approach to onomatopoeia, which in turn gives fuller significance to the ambitions of Lettrism. The enterprise suggests a new role for the handwritten, too, as a trace of voice and the assimilation of language to graphic gesture. The author proposes that literary translation should imagine itself as an eco-activity and science fiction, as a record of a reading, as the dynamic of a consciousness, as psycho-physiological experience. The approach is illustrated through a sequence of translations of Apollinaire’s “Le Voyageur” (1913).

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2016 10:00
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 17:28
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56647
DOI:	10.2752/175613110X12706508989415

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