Chinese whispers : toward a transpacific poetics /
The noted critic and translator Yunte Huang is known for his work on the cultural and linguistic transactions between the Anglo-American and Chinese worlds. In this new book, he explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, univer...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Thinking literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Serve the People, Read Them Verse: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics
- Through the Looking Glass: Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect
- Listening to Marco Polo: Sound, Money, and Vernacular Imagination
- Words Made in China: Ezra Pound as a Translational Poet
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Too Big to Fail: Wallace Stevens, John Cage, and the Poetics of Risk
- Chinese Whispers: The Future of Meaning in the Age of Information
- Coda: The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions.