Ryan Johnson

Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The theory of "literary worlds" has become increasingly important in comparative and world literatures. But how are the often-contradictory elements of Eastern and Western literatures to cohere in the new worlds such contact creates? Drawing on the latest work in philosophical logic and analytic Asian philosophy, this monograph proposes a new model of literary worlds that is best suited to comparative literature dealing with Western and East Asian traditions. Unlike much discussion of world literature anchored in North American traditions, featured here is the transnational work of artists, philosophers, and poets writing in English, French, Japanese and Mandarin in the twentieth century. Rather than imposing sharp borders, this book suggests that vague boundaries link Eastern and Western literary works and traditions, and that degrees of distance can better help us to see the multiple dimensions that both distinguish and join together literary worlds East and West. As such, it enables us to grasp not only how East Asian and Western writers translate one another's works into their own languages and traditions, but also how modern writers East and West modify their own traditions in order to make them fit in the new constellation of literary worlds brought about by the complex flow of literary information across twentieth-century Eurasia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785274367
• Artikelnr.: 60730326

Autorenporträt

Ryan Johnson is a tutor and research assistant in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 World Literature, Literary Worlds; Chapter One Literary Worlds and Degrees of Distance; PART 2 Dramatic Worlds; Chapter Two The Chou- Hughes Bardo Thödol and the Problem of Classification; Chapter Three What We Disagree about When We Disagree about N
; PART 3 Poetic Worlds; Chapter Four Paul Claudel and Kuki Sh
z
in the 1920s: France, Japan, and the World; Chapter Five Tradition East and West, English and Chinese: The Cross-Cultural Poetry of Bei Dao and Ted Hughes; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.