Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, Far Eastern, Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Translating & Interpreting, Poetry History & Criticism
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Author: Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ISBN: 9780811226219
Publisher: New Directions Publication: October 11, 2016
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz
ISBN: 9780811226219
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: October 11, 2016
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

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.”

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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print

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.”

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