The translatability of revolution : Guo Moruo and twentieth-century Chinese culture

"The first comprehensive study of the writer, politician, and Marxist historian Guo Moruo, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Leaping between different genres of Guo's works, it interrogates the linka...

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Auteur principal : Wang Pu (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The translatability of revolution : Guo Moruo and twentieth-century Chinese culture / Pu Wang
Publié : Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv-336 p.)
Collection : Harvard East Asian monographs ; 415
Sujets :
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The translingual making of a Chinese zeitgeist. Apostrophe, translatability, and the origins of Guo's lyrical politics
  • Translingual practice and a "Caesura of the revolution"
  • Poetics, thematics, and time : translating Faust in Revolutionary China
  • Part II. Translating antiquity into revolution. Autobiography and historiography
  • People's democracy in ancient costume
  • Modernizing translations of classical poetry
  • Conclusion, or, some final variations