Nineteen Ways Of Looking At Wang Wei

Weinberger Eliot

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Nineteen Ways Of Looking At Wang Wei

Weinberger Eliot
EssaysNDP1354First published 2016

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation....

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Nineteen Ways Of Looking At Wang Wei

Weinberger Eliot

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