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Experimental Chinese literature : translation, technology, poetics / by Tong King Lee.
Van Pelt Library PL2275.E96 L44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Tong-King, author.
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ; vol. 121.
- Sinica Leidensia ; volume121
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Experimental--China--History and criticism.
- Literature, Experimental.
- Chinese literature--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Poetics.
- Translating and interpreting--China--History.
- Translating and interpreting.
- History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 181 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, with some Chinese excerpts and parallel English translations.
- Contents:
- 1 Central Issues 1
- Experimental Literature and its Modes of Materiality 1
- Multimodality and Intersemioticity 6
- Translation and the Translational 9
- Technology 15
- Chapter Outline 17
- 2 Machine Translation and Hsia Yü's Poetics of Deconstruction 21
- Death of the Translator 22
- Translation and Deconstruction 24
- Dichotomies Revisited 27
- Pink Noise: Mode of Writing 30
- Deconstructing Authorship 31
- Romancing the Machine Poet 34
- Transparent Meanings: Multimodality and Materiality 38
- The Texts: Literary Meaning and its Discontents 41
- Disjuncture and Divergence 42
- Concretising Images 46
- Ungrammatically: Fetishism with the Word 51
- Proliferating Différance: Pink Noise in Multiple MT 56
- (Ir)reconeiling Text and Machine 59
- The Text-Machine as Monster 60
- The "Ish-ness" of Language 62
- 3 The Material Poetics of Chen Li: Translation and Technology 67
- The Translingual Sign as Inscription Technology 69
- Intermediality: The Printed Text and its Digital "Translation" 76
- Interlinguality: Writing Through Translation 80
- Intersemioticity: Creative Transpositions 88
- Engendering a Material Poetics through Translation and Technology 94
- 4 Visuality and Translation in Literary Art: Xu Bing's A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground 98
- The Imagetext in Deconstructed Chinese Characters: A Book from the Sky 100
- Icon-Language in Deverbalised Communication: A Book from the Ground 114
- Imagetext: Image-In-Text to Image-As-Text 126
- 5 The Translational: Intersemioticity and Transculturality 130
- Case Examples 131
- Text Garden 132
- Read, Art 138
- Evil/Exorcised 145
- Translation as Method in Literary Art 157
- 6 On Chineseness and the Trope of Translation in Experimental Literature 160.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004293373
- 900429337X
- OCLC:
- 904036914
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