Patchwork

Seven Essays on Art and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27020-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture

Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature presents in English translation a number of essays written by the Chinese literary scholar and novelist Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998). One of the great minds of the twentieth century, Qian, with his characteristic erudition and wit, addresses here aspects of the classical literary and artistic traditions of China. Better known, as a scholar, for his magisterial Limited Views: Essays on Ideas & Letters (Guanzhui bian) (1979-80) and, as a novelist, for his Fortress Besieged (Weicheng) (1947), these essays, first written during the period 1948-83 and much revised over the years, allow readers insight into Qian’s abiding concern with “striking connections” between disparate literary, historical, and intellectual traditions, ancient and modern, Chinese and Western.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qian, Zhongshu

Campbell, Duncan M

Weitere Mitwirkende

Campbell, Duncan M.

Campbell, Duncan M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction by Professor Zhang Longxi
Translator’s Introduction

Preface

Chinese Poetry and Chinese Painting

On Reading Laokoon

Synaesthesia

Lin Shu’s Translations

Poetry as a Vehicle of Grief
(translated by Siu-kit Wong)

Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”—the First English Poem Translated into Chinese—and Several Other Related Matters

An Historical Anecdote, a Religious Parable, and a Novel

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

The Chinese literary scholar and novelist Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) was one of the great minds of the twentieth century. Fluent also in a range of modern and classical European languages, his writings offer a remarkable engagement with the literary and artistic traditions of China.

Duncan M. Campbell teaches aspects of traditional Chinese culture, history, and classical literature and translation at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research focuses on the literary and material culture of the late imperial period in China.