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Channel Crossings - French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Paperback)
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Channel Crossings - French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Paperback)
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Scott's subtle and adventurous analysis breaks new ground in
textual understanding, while his translations radically challenge
established orthodoxies. As he crosses back and forth between
French and English poetry, he has illuminating encounters with a
wide range of poets, from Labe and Shakespeare to Auden and
Jaccottet. The embodiment of gender in the sonnet; the performance
of the dramatic voice; the inflexions of the self in the voice of
lyric verse; the 'landscaping' of nature in the line of verse; the
interventions of the translator in the peculiar lives of the prose
poem and free verse; the tasks of the translator and the
comparatist in a new age - these are some of the issues addressed
by Clive Scott in a sequence of essays as absorbing as they are
original. "Channel Crossings" is the recipient of the R. H. Gapper
Prize for 2004. The Prize, which is judged by the Society for
French Studies, recognises the best publication of its year by any
French studies scholar working in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The citation noted: In his book, Clive Scott gives a subtle and
adventurous account of how processes of cultural exchange have
played an active and enduring role in the development of the
language of poetry in French and English over a period of several
centuries...Clive Scott's book was one of a number of very
impressive works published in 2002. The judges' choice was made in
the light of the book's originality and its likely impact on wider
critical debate on the language of poetry and on questions of
method and approach in comparative literature.
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