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Ezra Pound's Cathay
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Ezra Pound's Cathay
Contributors:
By (Author) Wai-lim Yip
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
15th February 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Dewey:
811.52
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
369g
Description
Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, and shows in considerable detail his techniques
