Cross-Language Poetics in East Asia

Norbert Francis is professor emeritus at Northern Arizona University and presently visiting researcher in the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at Chengchi University. His current project focuses on problems of indigenous language preservation and literary preservation in multilingual contexts from a cognitive science point of view. Recent publications include Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music, and Narrative: The Science of Art (2017) and “New Poetics in China: A Review of Experimental Chinese Literature,” published In Chinese Language and Discourse (2015).