{"product_id":"the-tremors-of-translation-clive-scott-9781839543913","title":"The Tremors of Translation: An Edition of Voltaire's Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe 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? \u003cem\u003eThe Tremors of Translation\u003c\/em\u003e sets out to be just such a 'translational' edition of Voltaire's \u003cem\u003ePoème sur le désastre de Lisbonne\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary translation makes room for different kinds of creative participation in a text, different ways in which the text can reinvent its literary life and engage with its own expressivity. Clive Scott's edition of Voltaire's Lisbon poem seeks to empower the reader as translator by tirelessly awakening the text's latencies and ambiguities and 'invisible'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and a Fellow of the British Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clive Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839543914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839543913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50d","brand":"Clive Scott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460139266303,"sku":"9781839543913","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87c43025-fb87-499c-8d1f-7c0f50b828fc.jpg?v=1777413259","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tremors-of-translation-clive-scott-9781839543913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}