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The Transparent Eye

Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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The Transparent Eye

Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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. 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. 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.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824814290

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9780824814298

Two-way Mirrors

Cross-cultural Studies in Glocalization

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Two-way Mirrors

Cross-cultural Studies in Glocalization

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

In Two-Way Mirrors, Chen Eugene Eoyang engages in cross-cultural study, shedding light not only on the object of study but also on the subject conducting the study. The book's leading metaphor is that of the shop window, which is at once transparent (allowing a view of the merchandise on display) and reflective (offering an image of the prospective shopper). Eoyang shows the different and oppositional premises in Eastern and Western poetics juxtaposed not as contradictory but as complementary, allowing for a mutual illumination of values. He confronts the question of globalization and postmodernism bidirectionally, from an Asian as well as a Western perspective. Eoyang concludes by speculating on the continuing development of comparative literature, a discipline particularly well suited to new modes of discourse both reflective and reflexive, as illuminating as a two-way mirror.

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244

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Lexington Books

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0739105000

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9780739105009

"Borrowed Plumage"

Polemical Essays on Translation

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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"Borrowed Plumage"

Polemical Essays on Translation

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation: some of these "polemic" essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for example, the belief that humor is untranslatable; the assumption that translations are always inferior to the originals; the spread of translations that are more impenetrable to the target audience than the originals ever were to the source language audience; above all, the notion that translation is a marginal rather than a major area of study: indeed, as one essay suggests, translation may represent a model of thought, and translating a mode of thinking. These essays also consider the international trade in translations, the ratio of translations out of the language and of translations into the language, as a possible index to historical development; analyze the humor that can be translated as well as the humor that cannot be translated; uncover the implicit indicators of time and place in traditional Chinese poetry (offering thereby a study in comparative deictics); examine the hermeneutics of Old Testament exegeses, which -- unlike the modern world -- privileged the oral over the written word; discuss the subtle but definable differences between translations that appropriate previous versions by way of allusion and quotation, and translations that merely plagiarize. In the final section, entitled "Divertissements", Eugene Eoyang provides an exposition of his translation of a poem, first published in the People's Daily (and since banned), that contained a hidden -- and decidedly hostile -- acrostic, in which the challenge was not only to convey the original meaning but also to preserve the disguise of the original meaning in the Chinese text. (The translation appeared in The New York Times.) He also offers a wry typology of translators, comparing them -- metaphorically and paronomastically -- to different species of birds; in a concluding coda, he excavates the place-names in bicultural and multilingual Hong Kong, uncovering not only translations and transliterations, but also "heteronyms" (different names for the same place) as well as, remarkably, "phononyms" (names where the pronunciation of a word in one language happens to coincide with a word in another language with the same meaning). The result is a provocative potpourri of fascinating insights into the cultural and semiotic complexities of translation that will surely interest students of translation, literature, linguistics, and history, as well as the informed general reader.

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Rodopi

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9042008547

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9789042008540

Coat of Many Colors

Reflections On Diversity By a Minority of One

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Coat of Many Colors

Reflections On Diversity By a Minority of One

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

A patriotic argument for multiculturalism in America.

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216

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Beacon Press

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0807004219

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The Transparent Eye

Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics

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University of Hawaii Press

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East-West Symbioses

The Reconciliation of Opposites

By: Eugene Eoyang

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East-West Symbioses

The Reconciliation of Opposites

By: Eugene Eoyang

This book explores the encounters between East and West, studying how they get along. These exchanges involve deliberate exoticizations and incommensurabilities, as well as creative fusions, such as Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit monk in the late 16th-early 17th centuries who learned Chinese in Beijing well enough to compose works in Chinese, and Octavio Paz, the Mexican Nobel Laureate, who admired Chinese civilization. The book also considers the effect of the West on Asian countries, the cases of Japan and Turkey, who tried to modernize by becoming more Western, and the examples of China and Korea, who adopted Western forms of theatre to advance a distinctly Asian aesthetic. It will appeal to anyone seeking more than a superficial understanding of the encounters between East and West.

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232

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527525015

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"Borrowed Plumage"

Polemical Essays on Translation

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Polemical Essays on Translation

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Rodopi

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Two-way Mirrors

Cross-cultural Studies in Glocalization

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Cross-cultural Studies in Glocalization

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Lexington Books

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0739105000

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Coat of Many Colors

Reflections On Diversity By a Minority of One

By: Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Reflections On Diversity By a Minority of One

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A patriotic argument for multiculturalism in America.

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Beacon Press

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The Transparent Eye

The Transparent Eye

Two-way Mirrors

Two-way Mirrors

"Borrowed Plumage"

"Borrowed Plumage"

Coat of Many Colors

Coat of Many Colors

The Transparent Eye

The Transparent Eye

East-West Symbioses

East-West Symbioses

"Borrowed Plumage"

"Borrowed Plumage"

Two-way Mirrors

Two-way Mirrors

Coat of Many Colors

Coat of Many Colors

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