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A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature
D Jasper
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Description for A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jasper, David; Youzhuang, Geng; Wang, Hai. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CFP; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Western literature, from the mysterious figure of Marco Polo to the deliberate fictions of Daniel Defoe and Mark Twain, has constructed portraits of China born of dreamy parody or sheer prejudice. The West's attempt to understand China has proven as difficult as China's attempt to understand the West.
A Poetics of Translation is the result of academic conversations between scholars in China and the West relating to issues in translation. ""Translation"" here is meant not only as the linguistic challenges of translating from Chinese into English or English into Chinese, but also as the wider questions of ... Read more
Western literature, from the mysterious figure of Marco Polo to the deliberate fictions of Daniel Defoe and Mark Twain, has constructed portraits of China born of dreamy parody or sheer prejudice. The West's attempt to understand China has proven as difficult as China's attempt to understand the West.
A Poetics of Translation is the result of academic conversations between scholars in China and the West relating to issues in translation. ""Translation"" here is meant not only as the linguistic challenges of translating from Chinese into English or English into Chinese, but also as the wider questions of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781481304184
SKU
V9781481304184
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About D Jasper
David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow. His previous books include The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture and The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. He lives in Wishaw, Scotland.
Reviews for A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature
This valuable volume on the translatability of Chinese texts into English and vice versa strives to demonstrate that in the present global environment, humanities scholars shoulder the tremendous responsibility for forging ties between the West and East, including economic and political exchange.
Choice A key text in the field of comparative study between Chinese and Western literature.
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Choice A key text in the field of comparative study between Chinese and Western literature.
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