Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders

1. Front Matter

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2. The Translator’s Gaze: Intersemiotic Translation as Transactional Process

   • Madeleine Campbell, Ricarda Vidal

   Pages 1-36

3. Incarnating a Poem in Images: An Intersemiotic Translation of “Tramonto” by Giuseppe Ungaretti

   • Eugenia Loffredo

   Pages 37-61

4. The Case of the Poem in Motion: Translation, Movement and the Poetic Landscape

   • Manuela Perteghella

   Pages 63-85

5. Synaesthesia and Intersemiosis: Competing Principles in Literary Translation

   • Clive Scott

   Pages 87-111

6. Pierre de Ronsard ’s “Ode À Cassandre”: Erasure, Recall, Recolouration

   • Vahni Capildeo

   Pages 113-124

7. Translating Titles and Content: Artistic Image and Theatrical Action

   • John London

   Pages 125-145

8. Hysteria, Impropriety and Presence: Towards a Feminist Approach to Intersemiotic Translation

   • Cara Berger

   Pages 147-166

9. Hosting Hysteria

   • Laura González

   Pages 167-184

10. Affordance as Boundary in Intersemiotic Translation: Some Insights from Working with Sign Language s in Poetic Form

    • Kyra Pollitt

    Pages 185-216

11. Beyond Representation: Translation Zone(s) and Intersemiotic Translation

    • Heather Connelly

    Pages 217-245

12. Translation is Dialogue: Language in Transit

    • Arlene Tucker

    Pages 247-268

13. An Analytic of Making: Translating Berman’s Twelve Deforming Tendencies

    • Bryan Eccleshall

    Pages 269-292

14. Movement as Translation: Dancers in Dialogue

    • Ella McCartney

    Pages 293-309

15. Transitional/Translational Spaces: Evocative Objects as Triggers for Self-Negotiation

    • Gaia Del Negro

    Pages 311-334

16. Disorienting Dilemmas in Immersive Dance: Caroline Bowditch’s “Frida” and Stephanie Singer’s “Bittersuite”

    • Marta Masiero

    Pages 335-352

17. Life’s Too Short: On Translating Christian Marclay’s Photo-Book The Clock

    • Jen Calleja

    Pages 353-369

18. Radical Ekphrasis; or, An Ethics of Seeing

    • Sophie Collins

    Pages 371-394

19. Adventures in Intersemiotic and Metaphysical Translation

    • Robert Prosser, S. J. Fowler

    Pages 395-404

20. Back Matter

    Pages 405-433

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This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. Challenging Roman Jakobson’s seminal definitions, it examines how a poem may be expressed as dance, a short story as an olfactory experience, or a film as a painting. This emergent process opens up a myriad of synaesthetic possibilities for both translator and target audience to experience form and sense beyond the limitations of words. The editors draw together theoretical and creative contributions from translators, artists, performers, academics and curators who have explored intersemiotic translation in their practice. The contributions offer a practitioner’s perspective on this rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary field which spans semiotics, cognitive poetics, psychoanalysis and transformative learning theory. The book underlines the intermedial and multimodal nature of perception and expression, where semiotic boundaries are considered fluid and heuristic rather than ontological. It will be of particular interest to practitioners, scholars and students of modern foreign languages, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, interdisciplinary humanities, visual arts, theatre and the performing arts. 

• Intersemiotic translation
• intercultural communication
• Non-verbal media
• Cultural literacy
• multimodal
• intermedial translation
• Ekphrasis
• Synaesthesia
• cognitive poetics
• public engagement
• practice-based research
• Roman Jakobson
• interlingual translation
• feminist theory
• Conceptual Metaphor Theory
• transformative learning theory
• photography
• film installation
• contemporary dance
• participatory arts

• Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

  Madeleine Campbell

• Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, London, UK

  Ricarda Vidal

Madeleine Campbell is an associate tutor at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and a freelance writer, researcher and translator. She researches intersemiotic translation as practice, and she is also Secretary of Cultural Literacy in Europe, leading its special interest group on Intersemiotic Translation. Her collaborative Jetties project staged Algerian Mohammed Dib's writings and her translations of Occitan Aurélia Lassaque appeared at Poetry International Rotterdam (2018).


Ricarda Vidal is a teaching fellow, translator and curator based at King’s College London, UK. As curator of Translation Games and Talking Transformations, she explores intersemiotic translation as practice-based research and for public engagement. Her recent books include Death & Desire in Car Crash Culture (2013), The Power of Death (2014), Alternative Worlds (2014), and Revolve:R bookworks (2012-18). 

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