Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 76 Search Results for
comparative poetics
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Haun Saussy Abstract Readers of Chinese poetry in English translation have long been accustomed to seeing Wang Wei's quatrain “Lu zhai” as a microcosm of the Chinese poetic tradition. Thematically, it is also a world in miniature, including an “empty mountain,” “human voices,” and “returning...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... as a response to the changing notion of textuality and hermeneutic of Chinese poetry in our transmedial ecology. Treating translation as performance requires a move toward an understanding of poetry as not merely textual scripts but also as dynamic cultural performances of a poetic voice that is aided by its...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (2): 353–398.
Published: 01 October 2020
... section of Sima Xiangru's 司馬相如 (ca. 179–ca. 117 BCE) “Shanglin fu ” 上林賦 ( Fu on the Shanglin Park). 1 comparative poetics fu poetry ekphrasis Homer Xunzi Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 30 See Longinus, On the Sublime , 15.1: “In poetry the goal [ telos...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and modern studies, bringing together articles that address Chinese and comparative poetics from both historical and contemporary periods, in both classic and modern forms. It accords the conditions of modernity or postmodernity a critical space of interrogation while heeding the persistence of poetic...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Translation to Untranslatability. ” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 40 ( 2020 ): 139 – 63 . Barmé, Geremie . Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader . Armonk, NY : Sharpe , 1996 . Bei Dao 北島 . “ Ancient Enmity, ” translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain . Mānoa 24...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 235–243.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., edited by Susan Bush and Christian Murck, 132 64. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. Cai, Zong-qi, ed. A Chin ese Literary Mind: Culture, Creativity, and Rhetoric in Wenxin diaolong. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Cai, Zong-qi. Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 157–178.
Published: 01 December 2023
... dynamics between yi and the law of poetic composition. Like Yu Ji, the early Qing critic Wang Fuzhi 王夫之 (1619–1692) accentuates the miraculous nature of yi by comparing it to external processes of change. But instead of lavishing superlatives on yi as an agent of Creation, Wang seeks...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 179–203.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... 10. Ibid., 50. 11. Wordsworth, Prose Works of William Wordsworth , 1:139. 12. Birch, Peony Pavilion , ix. 13. This Hao Jing should not be confused with the Yuan scholar Hao Jing 郝經 (1223–1275) discussed in chapter 6. 13. See Cai, Configurations of Comparative Poetics...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 96–121.
Published: 01 December 2023
... in Wang's own poetry, see Varsano, “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?,” 1–25. 23. For an analysis of this important text on the Book of Poetry , see Cai, Configurations of Comparative Poetics , 44–49. 24. Wang C., Shige , 173. 25. This point has been noted in Huang J., Yijing lun de...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 138–169.
Published: 01 March 2021
... may not like the book because it is not scholarly, though at times it does indicate an awareness of some scholarly consensus. In a moment of comparative poetics, for instance, Jin explains, “Unlike poetry in the West, which traditionally is rooted in divine inspiration from a poetic Muse, Chinese...
Journal Article
Prism (2021) 18 (1): 293–299.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., professor emeritus of comparative literature at New York University at the time of his death, only months after Make It the Same was published. Edmond bases his reading of Brathwaite's poetics in his early-years' time as a DJ and his use of tape-recording technology for his poetry, which existed...
Journal Article
Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
... are a powerful and creative expression of his poetics as a whole. Going beyond the traditional model of influence study, the article proposes a theoretical framework of cross-cultural intertextuality, creative rewriting, and cultural translation. In 2013 Yang Mu published his fourteenth, and latest, book...
Journal Article
Prism (2022) 19 (1): 240–243.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a “so-called ‘poet’” (xvii). This is not to say there are no issues with Tian's study, some of them significant. Going in, I was both intrigued by and skeptical of the idea of a comparative study of poetic musicality, as such a discussion would have to address in some detail how the phonic qualities...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., the setting sun draws shadows, lightly bringing along lush fog. 更淒迷、夕陽寫影, 半捎蒨霧。 27 As I have argued elsewhere in my comparative reading of Lü Bicheng and Kang Youwei's overseas poems, the methods of associating foreign cultural sites and texts with Chinese poetic and cultural history as an act...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the jungle and the human as two estranged characters in this poetic drama creates an inevitable alienation. Most noticeable, the jungle is characterized as an unfathomable subject. Human compares it to “a multi-intelligent spirit” that is simultaneously “gentle and evil.” Jungle also stalks Human...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2023
... maneuvers in 1860s Qing China, the article clarifies the paratextual chronology of the translations, analyzes the translators’ manipulations of poetic form, and draws on Lawrence Venuti's theorization of foreignizing translation and Lydia H. Liu's concept of the supersign to expose Wade's foreignizing...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 220–234.
Published: 01 December 2023
... for comparison with Western theorizing about the same topic. Comparing both traditions on transcendent mental activity, artistic conception, and language would highlight the cogency and uniqueness of Chinese thinking on these topics, in turn initiating an in-depth dialogue between the two traditions and thereby...
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (2): 462–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Surface classicism lends itself to critiques of superficiality and inauthenticity, but this article demonstrates that its ubiquity in contemporary culture also creates new networks of relationality among remediations of classical poetics and imagery. Ultimately, the mediation of both liveness...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 1–12.
Published: 01 December 2023
... foundations laid by pre-Qin and Han-Wei thinkers for the subsequent rise of literary creation. In particular, it compares and differentiates Confucian, Daoist, and syncretic expositions on six key terms: yi 意 (conception), xiang 象 (image), yan 言 (word), xin 心 (heart/mind), xing 形 (bodily form...
Journal Article
Prism (2020) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 March 2020
... discussed in chapter 3, in which Wang recounts Guo's painstaking translation of Goethe's poetic drama in two acts over a period of three decades. By analyzing translation passages dating from different periods in Guo's life, ranging from 1919, when Guo first attempted to render Faust into Chinese while...
1
