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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466133503321

Titolo

A poetics of translation : between Chinese and English literature / / David Jasper, Geng Youzhuang , Wang Hai, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4813-0420-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

418/.020951

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Social aspects

Chinese literature - History and criticism

English literature - History and criticism

Chinese literature

English literature

East and West

Written communication in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Readings in the East and West ; 1. Poetic Desire and the Laws  of Heaven; 2. The Tale within a Tale as Universal Theme; 3. Pilgrimage to Heaven; Part II. Studies in Translation ; 4. Revisiting the Missionary Stance; 5. A Study on the "Preface" and "Introduction"  to James Legge's The Texts of Taoism; 6.The Hermeneutics of Translating Christian Theology for the Evangelization of Chinese School Children in Late Imperial China; 7. The "Ishmael" of Sinology

8. Two Nineteenth-Century English Translations of The Travels of Fa-Hsien (399-414 AD)Part III. Translation as Dislocation ; 9. Poetically Translating Chinese Texts into the West ; 10. The Power of Powerlessness; 11. What Is Lost in the Chinese Translations of The Merchant of Venice?; 12. Translation as Trans-Literal; Notes; Contributors; Credits; Index