A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature

ISBN-13: 9781481304184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 302 str.

David Jasper; Geng Youzhuang; Wang Hai

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Readers invested in the complexities of translation betwixt China and the West will find this volume full of intriguing studies and attentive readings that encompass the myriad issues surrounding East-West translation with rigor and imagination.--George Newlands, Honorary Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow "Choice"

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• Introduction
• PART I: READINGS IN THE EAST AND WEST
• 1. Poetic Desire and the Laws of Heaven: James Legge's Shi-jing and the Translation of Consciousness
• David Lyle Jeffrey
• 2. The Tale within a Tale as Universal Theme: A Comparative Reading of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Journey to the West (Xiyuoji)
• Eric Ziolkowski
• 3. Pilgrimage to Heaven: Timothy Richard's Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West
• John T. P. LAI
• PART II: STUDIES IN TRANSLATION: CHINA AND THE MISSIONARIES
• 4. Revisiting the Missionary Stance: Conversation and Conversion in James Legge's The Religions of China (1880)
• Trevor Hart
• 5. A Study of the ""Preface"" and ""Introduction"" to James Legge's The Texts of Taoism
• ZHAO Jing
• 6. The Hermeneutics of Translating Christian Theology for the Evangelization of Chinese School Children in Late Imperial China
• B. H. McLean
• 7. The ""Ishmael"" of Sinology: H. A. Giles' History of Chinese Literature (1901) and
• Late Victorian Perceptions of Chinese Literature and Culture
• Elisabeth Jay
• 8. Two Nineteenth-Century English Translations of The Travels of Fa-hsien (399-414 AD): An Episode in the Translation of China in England
• David Jasper
• PART III: TRANSLATION AS DISLOCATION
• 9. Poetically Translating Chinese Texts into the West: Ezra Pound's Translation of Chinese Poetry and Confucian Classics
• GENG Youzhuang
• 10. The Power of Powerlessness: Rediscovering the Radicality of Wu Wei in Daoism through Blanchot
• WANG Hai
• 11. What Is Lost in the Chinese Translations of The Merchant of Venice? A Comparative Reading of the Texts
• YANG Huilin
• 12. Translation as Trans-Literal: Radical Formations in Contemporary Chinese Art
• Andrew W. Hass
• Notes
• Contributors
• Credits
• Index