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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei | Reprint Edition

Compare Textbook Prices for Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Reprint Edition ISBN 9780811226202 by Weinberger, Eliot,Paz, Octavio
Authors: Weinberger, Eliot,Paz, Octavio
ISBN:0811226204
ISBN-13: 9780811226202
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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print 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. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”

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