This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task and art, Clive Scott explores various theoretical approaches as he goes in search of his own style of translation.
Translating Rimbaud’s Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision;... Læs mere
For the first time, The White Man's Burdens offers a cross-section of British poetry in which the Empire was the burden of the song.... Læs mere
The sixth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet is the first book to explore in detail the vital connections between today’s digital... Læs mere
A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century.
The definitive study of the once-important Jewish communities of Devon and Cornwall, providing an in-depth study of the demography and economic activity as well as the political, cultural, religious and social life of South-Western Jewry.
A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon.
This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism.
The first volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume illustrate the elaboration of that vision,... Læs mere
This book reprints a wide variety of articles and speeches for the first time since they appeared in Spanish and foreign journals and in clandestine broadsheets from France. Some censored material has been restored.