Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics - Hardcover

Yip, Wai-Lim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520077369 ISBN 13: 9780520077362

Publisher: California University Press, 1993

Synopsis

In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne to Robert Creeley, as he attempts to create a double consciousness that includes the state of mind of the original author and the expressive potentials of the target language. He aims, first, to expose the types of distortions that have occurred in the process of translation from one language to another and, second, to propose guidelines that will prevent this kind of linguistic violence in the future.

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About the Author

Wai-lim Yip is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He has written more than thirty books in English and Chinese, including Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres (California, 1976).

Edition details

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520077369
• ISBN 13: 9780520077362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260