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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yunte (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022].
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.