Style, Wit and Word-Play: Essays in Translation Studies in Memory of David Hawkes

ISBN-13: 9781443835718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Tao Tao Liu; Laurence K. P. Wong

Opis

This collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of David Hawkes (1923-2009), who is remembered as a pre-eminent translator and interpreter of Chinese literature into English, his most famous work being the translation of the classic eighteenth-century Chinese novel, the Hongloumeng or The Story of the Stone. The first part of the collection consists of studies on him and his works; the second part on the art of translation into English from Chinese literature. All the essays are written by scholars in the field from Britain, America, Australia and Hong Kong.