Eugene Chen Eoyang
Biographic Data
| ID | 741518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Chen Eoyang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene Chen |
| FAMILY NAME | Eoyang |
| SIGNATURE | EOYANG E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
This Thing Called the World
whose untold amplitude is as important as the words in print. This deconstruction of reality is staged in multiple counterpoints and role reversals : children not yet born cry and suffer while the dead continue to feel, love, see, and move around; mountains get personified while dead bodies grow trees and new life; wind, water, air have feelings and perform purposeful actions. These strategies blur the boundaries between life and death, city and …
Gatekeepers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 101 Jonas Zdanys Red Stones Illus. Steven Schroeder Lamar University Press Red Stones's collaborative effort sees Jonas Zdanys's precision of language in these twelve-line lyric poems contrasting with the textural abstractions of Steven Schroeder's paintings. Zdanys, a celebrated bilingual poet who writes in as well as translates from the Lithuanian, navigates from the physical to the philosophical in these short poems th…
The Persistence of "Cathay" in World Literature
In his article "The Persistence of 'Cathay' in World Literature" Eugene Eoyang argues that China has only recently begun to occupy a place in world literatures as evidenced by the absence of Chinese literature from the early editions of the widely adopted Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and its token representations in subsequent editions. "Orientalized" images of China still persist partly stemming from the continuing currency of stereoty…
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art
The Blank Slate
Intercultural Explorations
Divided into four sections: Asian-Western Intersections, Intercultural Memory, Intercultural Perspectives on Women, Genre Studies, and The Intercultural Arts, these essays from diverse hands and multiple perspectives illuminate the intersections, the cross-sections, and the synergies that characterize significant literary texts and artistic productions. Individually, they exemplify the insights available in an intercultural perspective; together …
Borrowed Plumage
This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation: some of these “polemic” essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for example, the belief that humor is untranslatable; the assumption that translations are always inferior to the originals; the spread of translations that are more impenetrable to the target audience than the originals ever were to the source language audience; above all, …
English as a postcolonial tool
English as the global (if not the universal) language reflects a hegemony of the past as well as of the present: both a continuation of the British Empire (and thus demonized as a former colonial language) and, as the preferred language of international business and capitalist development throughout the world, resented as a powerful neo-colonial language. Yet, as this study seeks to show, English is capable of acting against its own imperialisms,…
Teaching English as Culture
The teaching of an 'imperialist' language like English in a postcolonial era presents not only unprecedented difficulties to the teacher, it also raises disconcerting questions about the paradigms underlying the concepts of language, language teaching, and culture. This new perspective renders inadequate, on the one hand, the peda-linguistic categories of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language), and, on the othe…
L'enseignement de l'anglais dans le discours postcolonial
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Parity
Reading these fascinating essays on translations of the Declaration of Independence into various languages-including Russian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French, and Spanish-what emerges is how remarkably paradoxical that document is. It is clearly both revolutionary and universal. Yet, we should perhaps remind ourselves of the inevitable contradiction in those two claims. If it is revolutionary, its precepts run counter to mainstream tradition: …
Translating as a mode of thinking translation as a model of thought
The sympathetic neurons that innervate eccrine sweat glands undergo a phenotypic switch from noradrenergic to cholinergic and peptidergic. The changes in neurotransmitter choice are retrogradely specified by interactions with the target tissue that are mediated by a secreted differentiation factor. Production of the target-derived differentiation factor requires noradrenergic innervation. The switch from noradrenergic to cholinergic and peptiderg…
Translating Chinese Literature
Leading scholar-translators talk about the craft of translating Chinese literature into English
T'ang Transformation Texts
Tao Te Ching
A Taste For Apricots
In 835, Po Chii-yi J his poetry was read by literati and sung by the common people. By his own estimation, he had risen higher in the official hierarchy than many poets before him; yet his songs were sung by proud (and expensive) prostitutes. Behind these lines and their concern with literacy and illiteracy lies an implicit recognition of the disenfranchisement of the unlettered and of the importance of the written word. Command over spoken langu…
Selected Poems of Ai Qing
Selected Poems of Ai Qing
The Wang Chao-chun Legend
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria
The Oral Element in Chinese Fiction
The Solitary Boat
One critic of Chinese poetry has written, suggestively: "Western readers are sometimes struck by what they do not find ...". One of the most familiar constituents of poetry, particularly of the lyric, that will not be found in much of Chinese nature poetry is an identifiable grammatical subject. It is not uncommon for a translator of Chinese poetry to ask "... who is its subject? I? You? She?" The requirements of the translation into Western lang…
Gatekeepers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 101 Jonas Zdanys Red Stones Illus. Steven Schroeder Lamar University Press Red Stones's collaborative effort sees Jonas Zdanys's precision of language in these twelve-line lyric poems contrasting with the textural abstractions of Steven Schroeder's paintings. Zdanys, a celebrated bilingual poet who writes in as well as translates from the Lithuanian, navigates from the physical to the philosophical in these short poems th…
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria
The Solitary Boat
One critic of Chinese poetry has written, suggestively: "Western readers are sometimes struck by what they do not find ...". One of the most familiar constituents of poetry, particularly of the lyric, that will not be found in much of Chinese nature poetry is an identifiable grammatical subject. It is not uncommon for a translator of Chinese poetry to ask "... who is its subject? I? You? She?" The requirements of the translation into Western lang…
The Oral Element in Chinese Fiction
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria
The Wang Chao-chun Legend
Selected Poems of Ai Qing
Selected Poems of Ai Qing
A Taste For Apricots
In 835, Po Chii-yi J his poetry was read by literati and sung by the common people. By his own estimation, he had risen higher in the official hierarchy than many poets before him; yet his songs were sung by proud (and expensive) prostitutes. Behind these lines and their concern with literacy and illiteracy lies an implicit recognition of the disenfranchisement of the unlettered and of the importance of the written word. Command over spoken langu…
Tao Te Ching
T'ang Transformation Texts
Translating Chinese Literature
Leading scholar-translators talk about the craft of translating Chinese literature into English
Translating as a mode of thinking translation as a model of thought
The sympathetic neurons that innervate eccrine sweat glands undergo a phenotypic switch from noradrenergic to cholinergic and peptidergic. The changes in neurotransmitter choice are retrogradely specified by interactions with the target tissue that are mediated by a secreted differentiation factor. Production of the target-derived differentiation factor requires noradrenergic innervation. The switch from noradrenergic to cholinergic and peptiderg…
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Parity
Reading these fascinating essays on translations of the Declaration of Independence into various languages-including Russian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French, and Spanish-what emerges is how remarkably paradoxical that document is. It is clearly both revolutionary and universal. Yet, we should perhaps remind ourselves of the inevitable contradiction in those two claims. If it is revolutionary, its precepts run counter to mainstream tradition: …
L'enseignement de l'anglais dans le discours postcolonial
Borrowed Plumage
This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation: some of these “polemic” essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for example, the belief that humor is untranslatable; the assumption that translations are always inferior to the originals; the spread of translations that are more impenetrable to the target audience than the originals ever were to the source language audience; above all, …
English as a postcolonial tool
English as the global (if not the universal) language reflects a hegemony of the past as well as of the present: both a continuation of the British Empire (and thus demonized as a former colonial language) and, as the preferred language of international business and capitalist development throughout the world, resented as a powerful neo-colonial language. Yet, as this study seeks to show, English is capable of acting against its own imperialisms,…
Teaching English as Culture
The teaching of an 'imperialist' language like English in a postcolonial era presents not only unprecedented difficulties to the teacher, it also raises disconcerting questions about the paradigms underlying the concepts of language, language teaching, and culture. This new perspective renders inadequate, on the one hand, the peda-linguistic categories of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language), and, on the othe…
Intercultural Explorations
Divided into four sections: Asian-Western Intersections, Intercultural Memory, Intercultural Perspectives on Women, Genre Studies, and The Intercultural Arts, these essays from diverse hands and multiple perspectives illuminate the intersections, the cross-sections, and the synergies that characterize significant literary texts and artistic productions. Individually, they exemplify the insights available in an intercultural perspective; together …
The Blank Slate
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art
The Persistence of "Cathay" in World Literature
In his article "The Persistence of 'Cathay' in World Literature" Eugene Eoyang argues that China has only recently begun to occupy a place in world literatures as evidenced by the absence of Chinese literature from the early editions of the widely adopted Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and its token representations in subsequent editions. "Orientalized" images of China still persist partly stemming from the continuing currency of stereoty…
Gatekeepers
WORLDLITERATURETODAY.ORG 101 Jonas Zdanys Red Stones Illus. Steven Schroeder Lamar University Press Red Stones's collaborative effort sees Jonas Zdanys's precision of language in these twelve-line lyric poems contrasting with the textural abstractions of Steven Schroeder's paintings. Zdanys, a celebrated bilingual poet who writes in as well as translates from the Lithuanian, navigates from the physical to the philosophical in these short poems th…
This Thing Called the World
whose untold amplitude is as important as the words in print. This deconstruction of reality is staged in multiple counterpoints and role reversals : children not yet born cry and suffer while the dead continue to feel, love, see, and move around; mountains get personified while dead bodies grow trees and new life; wind, water, air have feelings and perform purposeful actions. These strategies blur the boundaries between life and death, city and …
Art (16 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · History (12 works) · Literature (12 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Poetry (5 works)