Clive Scott: 34 books

"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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

«Clive Cussler è un magistrale protagonista dell'avventura, non solo scritta ma anche vissuta» Corriere della Sera «Clive Cussler è l'Hemingway pop» la Repubblica Una donna in pericolo, un uomo in cerca di vendetta, una corsa contro il tempo per il detective Bell. 1909,...

El espía, tercera entrega de las aventuras del detective Isaac Bell, una novela de aventuras y suspense en la que Clive Cussler nos proporciona adrenalina en estado puro. Una noche de 1908, un hombre de rasgos orientales entra furtivamente en un arsenal de Washington y coloca los explosivos...

Con Sabotaje, Clive Cussler nos ofrece una nueva aventura cargada de acción y misterio de la mano de la agencia de detectives Van Dorn y del inigualable Isaac Bell. Unos misteriosos saboteadores pretenden destruir el ferrocarril que unirá Estados Unidos, ¿o la nación entera? Una...

Turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell goes undercover as a coal miner for his first solo mission in this novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van...

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in this riveting action-adventure novel from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Clive Cussler. ** ** The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But...

1908, Washington. Quando il geniale progettista Arthur Langner muore tragicamente nella fabbrica di cannoni della marina, lasciando un biglietto d’addio, nessuno dubita che si tratti di suicidio. Soltanto la splendida figlia Dorothy si rifiuta di crederci, e chiede alla celebre agenzia investigativa...

En la quinta entrega de las aventuras de Isaac Bell, el famoso detective privado se enfrenta a un espía dispuesto a poner el futuro del mundo en manos del imperio alemán. 1910. Clyde Lynds, inventor de una nueva y revolucionaria máquina de cine sonoro, se dirige a Estados Unidos a bordo...

Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series.   It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. They...