Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry

by Yunte Huang

Cultural Studies. Poetry. Yunte Huang's SHI: A RADICAL READING OF CHINESE POETRY is as much a bow to traditions of poetics across cultures as it is to linguistic efforts to bridge them. Huang concerns himself with the very act and implicative force of translation, especially when crossing gap in time and geography from classical Chinese poetry to the audience of the contemporary Anglophone West. His effort is described as "halfway between a hermeneutical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093780472X
• ISBN13: 9780937804728
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.3" x 6.0"