TY - BOOK ID - 1895863 TI - Diffusion of distances : dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics PY - 1993 SN - 0520077369 0520912306 0585108668 9780520912304 9780585108667 9780520077362 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Chinese languages KW - Comparative literature KW - Stilistics KW - Chinese literature KW - Chinese language KW - Chinese poetry KW - Poetics. KW - Poetics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - East Asian Languages & Literatures KW - Versification. KW - History and criticism. KW - Versification KW - History and criticism KW - Technique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1895863 AB - In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne to Robert Creeley, as he attempts to create a double consciousness that includes the state of mind of the original author and the expressive potentials of the target language. He aims, first, to expose the types of distortions that have occurred in the process of translation from one language to another and, second, to propose guidelines that will prevent this kind of linguistic violence in the future. ER -