The Organization of Distance - Poetry, Translation, Chineseness

The Organization of Distance argues that the impression of Chineseness in Chinese poetry is a product of translation, simultaneously nativizing and foreignizing from sources abroad and in the past.

About the author

Lucas Klein (PhD Yale) is Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. In addition to translations of Xi Chuan, Mang Ke, and Li Shangyin, he has published critical and scholarly work in LARB, CLEAR, Comparative Literature Studies, and PMLA.

Product details

• Authors: Lucas Klein
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2018
• EAN: 9789004368682
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36868-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Sinica Leidensia
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies