The transparent eye : reflections on translation, Chinese literature, and comparative poetics / Eugene Chen Eoyang.
Eoyang, Eugene Chen.
1993
PN241 .E57 1993 (Mapit)
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Title The transparent eye : reflections on translation, Chinese literature, and comparative poetics / Eugene Chen Eoyang.
Author Eoyang, Eugene Chen.
ISBN 0824814290 (alk. paper)
9780824814298 (alk. paper)
Imprint Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1993.
Language English
Description xx, 311 pages ; 25 cm.
Call Number PN241 .E57 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 495.1/802
Summary "In this remarkably stimulating and erudite series of essays, Eugene Chen Eoyang explores many of the underlying paradigms and presumptions in world literature, highlighting issues of cultural interchange and cultural hegemony. Translation is seen in this perspective as a central rather than a peripheral factor in understanding the meanings of literary works."--BOOK JACKET. "Taking concrete examples from Chinese literature, Eoyang illuminates not only the semantic collisions that underlie the complexities of translation, but also the cultural identities reflected in language and values. The title alludes to a passage from Emerson, reminding us that the object on view is not only the vision we see but is also the organ through which that vision is apprehended. The confrontation with a radical "other" - which is, for many Westerners, what Chinese literature represents - is thus both a discovery and a self-discovery."--BOOK JACKET. "Part of the book's originality is that it identifies a new audience - one that is incipiently bicultural, or knowledgeable about what has been called "East" as well as what has been called "West." Readers with an interest in the theory and practice of translation will find this an inspiring and indispensable work, one that prepares the way for a comparative poetics that recognizes the intense subjectivities in every culture and at the same time establishes a basis for a comparison that tries to transcend, even as it acknowledges, provincialities."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-301) and index.
Available Note Also issued online.
Series SHAPS library of translations.
Available in Other Form Transparent eye.
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"Confound Their Language": The Mythologies of Translation
"God's Hand Is in Every Translation": The Myths of Theory
Translation across Civilizations: The Contribution of Barbarians
"Artifices of Eternity": Audiences for Translations of Chinese Literature
"Dim Emblazonings": Images of Chinese Literature in English Translation
Translation as Excommunication: Notes Toward an Intraworldly Poetics
The Ship of Theseus: The Ontology of Translation
Guises and Disguises: The Epistemology of Translation
Horizons of Meaning: The Phenomenology of Translation
The Maladjusted Messenger: Rezeptionsasthetik in Translation
Catalyst and Excavator: Pound and Waley as Translators of Chinese Poetry
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria: The Importance of Flavor in Chinese Literary Criticism
Polar Paradigms in Poetics: Chinese and Western Literary Premises.

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