Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crevel, Maghiel van., Editor.

Contributor:

Klein, Lucas, Editor.

Crevel, Maghiel van, Editor.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: "The Translator's Take," "Theoretics," and "Impact." The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. Translation is taken as an interlingual and intercultural act, and the essays foreground theoretical expositions and the practice of translation in equal but not opposite measure. Poetry has a transforming yet ever-acute relevance in Chinese culture, and this makes it a good entry point for studying Chinese-foreign encounters. Pushing past oppositions that still too often restrict discussions of translation-form versus content, elegance versus accuracy, and "the original" versus "the translated"-this volume brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Conventions

1 Sitting with Discomfort

2 Working with Words

3 Translating Great Distances

4 Purpose and Form

5 Embodiment in the Translation of Chinese Poetry

6. Translating Theory

7 Narrativity in Lyric Translation

8 Sublimating Sorrow

9 Mediation Is Our Authenticity

10 Ecofeminism avant la Lettre

11 Ronald Mar and the Trope of Life

12 Ya Xian's Lyrical Montage

13 Celan's "Deathfugue" in Chinese

14 Trauma in Translation

15 A Noble Art, and a Tricky Business

Index

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ISBN:

9789462989948

946298994X

9781003692423

OCLC:

1130227566

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access