Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
New Directions Publishing · Print & ebook · October 11, 2016
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- Who it’s for
- A compact, layered way into Chinese poetry, with scholarship that still reads like literature.
- Genres
- Translating & Interpreting, Poetry Criticism, Chinese Poetry
- Published
- New Directions Publishing, October 11, 2016
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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.
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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.”
Ways In
A compact, layered way into Chinese poetry, with scholarship that still reads like literature.
Come here for
- close reading, by design
- poetry as criticism
Expect
- annotations and perspective shifts
- teaching notes with bite
Where it sits
| Translating & Interpreting | 44% |
|---|---|
| Chinese Poetry | 39% |
| Poetry Criticism | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Translating & Interpreting
- Chinese Literary Criticism
- Poetry Criticism
- Authors
- Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Published
- October 11, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Translating & Interpreting