The Transparent Eye
Title | The Transparent Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Chen Eoyang |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1993-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780824814298 |
In this remarkably stimulating and erudite series of essays, Eugene Chen Eoyang explores many of the underlying paradigms and presumptions in world literature, highlighting issues of cultural interchange and cultural hegemony. Translation is seen in this perspective as a central rather than a peripheral factor in understanding the meanings of literary works. Taking concrete examples from Chinese literature, Eoyang illuminates not only the semantic collisions that underlie the complexities of translation, but also the cultural identities reflected in language and values. The title alludes to a passage from Emerson, reminding us that the object on view is not only the vision we see but is also the organ through which that vision is apprehended. The confrontation with a radical "other" - which is, for many Westerners, what Chinese literature represents - is thus both a discovery and a self-discovery. Part of the book's originality is that it identifies a new audience - one that is incipiently bicultural, or knowledgeable about what has been called "East" as well as what has been called "West." Readers with an interest in the theory and practice of translation will find this an inspiring and indispensable work, one that prepares the way for a comparative poetics that recognizes the intense subjectivities in every culture and at the same time establishes a basis for a comparison that tries to transcend, even as it acknowledges, provincialities.
Nature
Title | Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1849 |
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The Transparent Eye-ball and Other Stories
Title | The Transparent Eye-ball and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Dallas E. Wiebe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
The Transparent Eye-ball and Other Stories
Title | The Transparent Eye-ball and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Dallas E. Wiebe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN | 9780930900922 |
The Transparent Eye
Title | The Transparent Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Eric R. Hoffman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2016-01-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781941550922 |
Eric Hoffman has translated Emerson's "Journals" into a new language, distilling the originative matrix-the master's discursive prose-into two suites of lyric poems. This is translation as critique and renewal, a classic modernist project. Hoffman's poems are like a palimpsest or lithography stone on which traces of a previous drawing have survived. We are witnesses to the presence of a negotiation, the negotiation of a presence. "The Transparent Eye" is the latest manifestation of Hoffman's restless and manifold creativity, a creativity Emerson himself would have saluted. He would not have been counting the spoons. Anthony Rudolf, author of "Zigzag" and "Silent Conversations"
Emerson's Change in Vision
Title | Emerson's Change in Vision PDF eBook |
Author | David Matthew Greer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1990 |
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The Transparent Man
Title | The Transparent Man PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Hecht |
Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Nominee for National Book Critics Circle Award, this volume contains many delights and some long poems. There is a European feel about Hecht's verse that is striking, partly due to the richness of the classical allusions, and partly due to the way Hecht handles autobiography. Poetry in the 20th century is very much shaped by the individualism of our times, but poetry that is in essence confessional, eccentric, and overly particularized quickly becomes tiresome. Hecht often avoids this pitfall by realizing his own insight through cultural rather than personal metaphor, and this allows his words and imagery to remain fresh and resonant. ISBN 0-394-58506-2: $18.95.