Translating China for Western Readers: Reflective, Critical, and Practical Essays - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1438455100 ISBN 13 : 9781438455105

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2016

Synopsis

Explores the challenges of translating Chinese works for Western readers, particularly premodern texts.

This book explores the challenges of translating Chinese works, particularly premodern ones, for a contemporary Western readership. Reacting against the “cultural turn” in translation studies, contributors return to the origin of translation studies: translation practice. By returning to the time-honored basics of linguistics and hermeneutics, the book inquires into translation practice from the perspective of reading and reading theory. Essays in the first section of the work discuss the nature, function, rationale, criteria, and historical and conceptual values of translation. The second section focuses on the art and craft of translation, offering practical techniques and tips. Finally, the third section conducts critical assessments of translation policy and practice as well as formal and aesthetic issues. Throughout, contributors explore how a translation from the Chinese can read like a text in the Western reader’s own language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ming Dong Gu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Texas, Dallas. He is the author of Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438455100
• ISBN 13: 9781438455105
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 338
• Éditeur: Dong Gu Ming
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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