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Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil : Dual Translation, Chineseness, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

KLEIN, Lucas

RELEASE DATE:

2013

LENGTH:

110 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

What constitutes the relationship between world literature and Chineseness? How has translation shaped Chinese poetry, and can translation be understood as at the foundation not only of world literature, but of Chineseness, as well? This talk will begin to answer these questions by demonstrating how Chineseness as an aspect of the Chinese poetic tradition is itself a result of translation. Looking at Chinese poetry's negotiation with concepts central to translation - nativization and foreignization, or the work's engagement with the Chinese historical heritage or foreign literary texts and contexts, respectively - I argue not only that Chinese poetry can be understood as translation, but for an understanding of the role of such translation in the constitution of both Chineseness and world literature. After contextualizing recent debates in the field of Sinology and translation studies, I will examine the work of Bian Zhilin 卞之琳 (1910-2000) and his implicit vision for a world literature able to merge the Chinese literary heritage with Western influence. Since debates around world literature, especially in Chinese literary studies, focus on the modern era, however, I shift focus with a discussion of the Tang dynasty (618-907), when China had earlier become highly international, even cosmopolitan, in a detailed look at the history of Regulated Verse (lüshi 律詩), describing not only its origins in Sanskrit but how it maintained associations with Buddhism. Following this, I consider the work of Du Fu 杜甫 (712-770) to understand how the canonization of his work nativized Regulated Verse through its historiography. I conclude with a reconsideration of the ethics of world literature and translation in determining our understanding of the local.

Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil : Dual Translation, Chineseness, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry

部門:

翻譯學研究中心

講者:

KLEIN, Lucas

發佈日期:

2013

影片長度:

110 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil : Dual Translation, Chineseness, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry

部门:

翻译学研究中心

讲者:

KLEIN, Lucas

发布日期:

2013

影片长度:

110 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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