Timothy Billings
Biographic Data
| ID | 80577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Billings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Billings |
| SIGNATURE | BILLINGS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Howard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cathay
Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismEzra Pound’s Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound’s translations helped establish a modern style for American literature, at the same time creating a thirst for classical Chinese poetry in English. Pound’s dynamic free-verse translations in a modern idiom formed the basis for T.S. Eliot’s famous claim that Pound was th…
Sleep Competing Activities and Sleep Problems in Minority College Students
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia. A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552–1610. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 359 pp. + 10 color pls. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $57.50. ISBN: 978–0–19–959225–8. - Volume 64 Issue 3
Jesuit Fish in Chinese Nets
This essay offers a "sinographic" reading of Athanasius Kircher's bilingual critical edition of a famous Tang dynasty monument (discovered in 1625) about Nestorian Christians, which frames the material in China Illustrata (1667). The author argues that Kircher's mode of translation is a doctrinal polemic that attempts to reconstruct an imaginary originary text from the Chinese inscription in order to contain unorthodox meanings that interfere wit…
Jesuit Fish in Chinese Nets
This essay offers a "sinographic" reading of Athanasius Kircher's bilingual critical edition of a famous Tang dynasty monument (discovered in 1625) about Nestorian Christians, which frames the material in China Illustrata (1667). The author argues that Kircher's mode of translation is a doctrinal polemic that attempts to reconstruct an imaginary originary text from the Chinese inscription in order to contain unorthodox meanings that interfere wit…
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City
Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia. A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552–1610. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 359 pp. + 10 color pls. index. illus. map. gloss. bibl. $57.50. ISBN: 978–0–19–959225–8. - Volume 64 Issue 3
Sleep Competing Activities and Sleep Problems in Minority College Students
Cathay
Finalist, Pegasus Award for Poetry CriticismEzra Pound’s Cathay (1915) is a masterpiece both of modernism and of world literature. The muscular precision of images that mark Pound’s translations helped establish a modern style for American literature, at the same time creating a thirst for classical Chinese poetry in English. Pound’s dynamic free-verse translations in a modern idiom formed the basis for T.S. Eliot’s famous claim that Pound was th…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (1 work) · China (1 work)