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The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)

The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)

Scott, Clive

Hardcover

Series: Transcript, Book 36

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1839543914
ISBN13: 9781839543913
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Apr 9 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

We look to a critical edition of a text to establish its textual being, to detail the historical context of its formation and to provide a comprehensive knowledge of its apparent motivations. But what kind of edition of a text do we need if the reader is to be expressly encouraged to translate it? The Tremors of Translation sets out to be just such a 'translational' edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756): it focuses its approach on the interrogative, on the exploratory, on the pursuit of new expressive possibilities; it seeks, if anything, to disestablish the text, to project alternative contexts of formation and to call standard knowledge of the text into question.

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