Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, this...

Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet, what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects, and how does this viewpoint differ from that of documentary photography? Looking closely at the work of Atget, Kertesz, Bovis, Rene-Jacques, Brassai, Doisneau, Cartier- Bresson and more, thi...

While reading transforms texts through memories, associations and re-imaginings, translation allows us to act out our reading experience, inscribe it in a new text, and engage in a dialogic and dynamic relationship with the original. In this highly original new study, Clive Scott reveals the existential and ecological values that literary translation can embody in its perceptual transformation of texts. The transfer of a text from one language into another is merely the platform from which...

Offering an original reconceptualization of literary translation, Clive Scott argues against traditional approaches to the theory and practice of translation. Instead he suggests that translation should attend more to the phenomenology of reading, triggering creative textual thinking in the responsive reader rather than testing the hermeneutic skills of the professional translator. In this new guise, translation enlists the reader as an active participant in the constant re-fashioning of t...

Language has always been central to the meaning and exploitation of photographic images. However, the various types and ‘styles’ of language associated with different photographic genres have been largely overlooked. This book considers the nature of photography, examining the language used in titles, captions and commentaries, particularly as they relate to documentary photography, photojournalism and fashion photography.The Spoken Image addresses the question of how the ...

Translation often proceeds as if languages already existed, as if the task of the translator were to make an appropriate selection from available resources. Clive Scott challenges this tacit assumption. If the translator is to do justice to himself/herself as a reader, if the translator is to become the creative writer of his/her reading, then the language of translation must be equal to the translators perceptual experience of, and bodily responses to, source texts. Each renewal of percep...

"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 th...

Translating Apollinaire delves into Apollinaire’s poetry and poetics through the challenges and invitations it offers to the process of translation.Besides providing a new appraisal of Apollinaire, the most significant French poet of WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. It proposes that translation’s primary task is to capture the responses of the reader to the poetic text, and to find ways of wri...

New York, 1911. Isaac Bell, detective di spicco dell’agenzia investigativa Van Dorn, è alle prese con un caso di ordinaria amministrazione. Anna Pape, una giovane donna che ambisce a diventare un’attrice di successo, è scappata di casa, forse proprio per inseguire il suo sogno. Bell non ci mette molto a trovarla, ma il caso si conclude tragicamente: la ragazza è morta. Assassinata in modo brutale.Per l’investigatore privato comincia un’indagine ben più complessa di quanto p...

«Quando si parla di Cussler è la fantasia a comandare e lo scopo della fantasia è quello di emozionarci, stupirci.»la Repubblica - Luca d'AndreaEdna, profonda come l’oceano, o Nellie, che abbaglia come un caleidoscopio? Isaac Bell è concentrato su questa decisione quando la Commissione federale lo incarica di investigare sulla Standard Oil, la compagnia petrolifera fondata da John D. Rockefeller che sta fatturando incassi record, riuscendo a sbaragl...

«È un magistrale protagonista dell'avventura, non solo scritta ma anche vissuta.»Corriere della Sera«Clive Cussler è l'Hemingway pop a caccia di relitti marini.»la RepubblicaSul transatlantico britannico Mauretania, partito dall’Inghilterra e diretto verso gli Stati Uniti, viaggiano due scienziati europei artefici di una sensazionale scoperta, che nascondono nel timore di vederla c...

È il 1921, un anno d’oro per il Proibizionismo, un anno d’oro per il contrabbando. E proprio inseguendo a grande velocità una barca che trasporta illegalmente whisky, Joseph «Joe» Van Dorn si trova al centro di una sparatoria. Joe, l’amico di una vita di Isaac Bell nonché il capo dell’omonima agenzia investigativa, viene ferito gravemente, mentre Bell, sconvolto, giura di catturare il responsabile. Ma non può immaginare in che guaio si stia cacciando.Quando un testimone della sparat...