{"id":1914,"date":"2013-05-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2013-05-06T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:28:58","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-foreign-echoes-discerning-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dual \u00a0Dissertation Reviews <\/a>has posted Brian Skerratt<\/a>‘s review of my dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry<\/em><\/a>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Lucas Klein\u2019s dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry<\/em>, is notable both for its ambition and its erudition. In seeking to answer how the \u201cChineseness\u201d of Chinese poetry, its quality of being or seeming natively Chinese, is produced in and through acts of translation, Klein not only tackles Modernist-inspired poetry from the twentieth century, where \u201cChineseness\u201d is a salient issue, but also the monolith of the Chinese literary tradition itself, including such ultra-canonical figures as Wang Wei \u738b\u7dad (692-761) and Du Fu \u675c\u752b (712-770). In practical terms, this impressive breadth of scope results in a dissertation in two parts: the first featuring studies of modern poet Bian Zhilin \u535e\u4e4b\u7433 (1910-2000) and contemporary poet Yang Lian \u694a\u7149 (b. 1955), and the second reaching back to Tang Dynasty masters Wang Wei, Du Fu, and Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1 (813-858). By avoiding the urge to arrange his chapters chronologically \u2015 or, at least, by putting the modern before the pre-modern \u2015 Klein refuses to allow \u201ctraditional China\u201d or its poetic stand-in, Tang regulated verse, their place as the seat of pure Chineseness, untarnished by contact with the modern West; in fact, one of his goals is to situate the Tang Dynasty back into a global network of cultural interaction and exchange. The arrangement of chapters further serves to illustrate Klein\u2019s methodology, which is to allow the insights of deconstruction, Marxist thought, translation studies, and contemporary avant-garde poetics to illuminate the distant past \u2015 and vice-versa. Klein\u2019s dissertation serves the larger goal of deconstructing the binaries tradition\/modernity, native\/foreign, textual analysis\/high theory, and, most centrally, original\/translation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Dissertation Reviews has posted Brian Skerratt‘s review of my dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry. Here\u2019s how it begins: Lucas Klein\u2019s dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[623,3],"tags":[581,1107,180,402,462,344,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-uS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1398,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1398","url_meta":{"origin":1914,"position":0},"title":"Announcing Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We are delighted to welcome a new member to the Dissertation Reviews family. 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