Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Contributor(s): Weinberger, Eliot (Author), Paz, Octavio (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0811226204 ISBN-13: 9780811226202 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting - Literary Criticism | Asian - Chinese |
Dewey: 895.113 |
LCCN: 2016021270 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.4" W x 7" (0.20 lbs) 64 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
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Publisher Description: The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, "Eliot Weinberger's commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei's little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility." |
Contributor Bio(s): Paz, Octavio: - Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.Weinberger, Eliot: - Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City. |