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 writing those responses into the act of translation. Every reader is invited to translate, and to translate with a creativity appropriate to the complexity of their own reading experiences. Throughout, Scott himself consistently uses the creative resource of photography, and more particularly photographic fragments, as a cross-media language used to help capture the activity of the reading consciousness.

Art Facts is a play in the joys of language experimentation. It includes word games, puzzles, visual poems, "straight" poems, prose essays, and more. Nichol explodes on the page.

Scobie illuminates bpNichol's relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol's importance as a writer of fiction. Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series: ABC of Reading the TRG Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism Michael Ondaatje: Word, Image, Imagination Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour

This study proposes to demonstrate that Apollinaire's penchant for primitivism emerged from his spiritual side, his philosophical background, his desire to shock, and thirst for novelty and experimentation. His life and work beautufully illustrate how the primitive flows into the modern. He emerges not only as a precursor of Dada and surrealism, but also as an incarnation of "the lively childhood of our era."

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