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In Between the Lines Cosima Bruno illustrates how the study of translation can enhance our experience of reading poetry. By inquiring into the mutual dependence of the source text and its translation, the study offers both theoretical insights and methodological tools that bring in-depth stylistic analysis to bear on the translations as against the originals. Through such a process of discovery, Cosima Bruno elaborates a textual exegesis of the work by Yang Lian, one of the most translated, and critically acclaimed contemporary Chinese poets. This book thus reconciles the theory-practice divide in translation studies, as well as helps to dismantle the lingering Eurocentrism still present in the discipline.

Poetry --- Verse translating --- Translating. --- Yang, Lian, --- Yang, Lien, --- Lian, Yang, --- 杨炼, --- 楊煉, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book investigates the poetics of three of the most internationally renowned contemporary Chinese poets - Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo - who were all exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. Their poetry was later to be labelled 'Misty poetry' (Menglongshi). Emphasising polyvalent imagery and irregular syntax, Misty poetry engenders a multiplicity of meanings, often leading to interpretational indeterminacy. This book examines three aspects of the 'Mistiness' of the poets' oeuvre: the socio-historic background where Misty poets live and write; imagery; and linguistic e

Chinese poetry --- History and criticism. --- Duoduo, --- Beidao, --- Yang, Lian, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Yang, Lien, --- Lian, Yang, --- 杨炼, --- 楊煉, --- Pei-tao, --- Bei Dao, --- 北岛, --- 北島, --- Zhao, Zhenkai, --- Chao, Chen-kʻai, --- 趙振開, --- Ai, Shan, --- 艾珊, --- Shi, Mo, --- Shih, Mo, --- 石默, --- Dao, Bei, --- To-to, --- Li, Shih-cheng, --- Li, Shizheng, --- Duo, Duo, --- Duo Duo, --- 多多, --- 朵朵,