TY - JOUR
T1 - Dislocating Language into Meaning
T2 - Difficult Anglophone Poetry and Chinese Poetics in Translation—Toward a Culturally Translatable Li Shangyin
AU - Klein, Lucas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2016/7/2
Y1 - 2016/7/2
N2 - T. S. Eliot wrote, “We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult” (“The Metaphysical Poets” 248). But what of poets outside “our” civilization? This article considers the translation of the famously—or infamously—difficult poet Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) in light of the history of poetry translation from Chinese into English, which, from Coleridge to Prynne, coincides with and even helped create the history of poetic difficulty in English. My argument here concerns the elements of Li Shangyin that can be crystallized and made relevant for the present through translation into English.
AB - T. S. Eliot wrote, “We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult” (“The Metaphysical Poets” 248). But what of poets outside “our” civilization? This article considers the translation of the famously—or infamously—difficult poet Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) in light of the history of poetry translation from Chinese into English, which, from Coleridge to Prynne, coincides with and even helped create the history of poetic difficulty in English. My argument here concerns the elements of Li Shangyin that can be crystallized and made relevant for the present through translation into English.
KW - Chinese poetry
KW - English and American poetry
KW - difficulty
KW - translation
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U2 - 10.1080/00397709.2016.1207465
DO - 10.1080/00397709.2016.1207465
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84986564626
SN - 0039-7709
VL - 70
SP - 133
EP - 142
JO - Symposium - Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures
JF - Symposium - Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures
IS - 3
ER -