Intercultural exchanges in the translation of poetry East and West
The private and the public, the scholar and the artist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21243158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Locke Hart (0000-0002-9782-828X, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-6351 • E-ISSN: 2330-6343 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23306343.2019.1665219 |
| OpenAlex | W2981442908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article on East and West focuses on translation and intercultural exchange in relation between public and private, scholar and artist. After an introduction that discusses poetry and translation, the essay illustrates in three parts on the poetry and translation of Jüri Talvet, especially his poem on Christmas in China (including H. L. Hix’s observation); the overlapping translations of French women poets into English by Norman L. Shapiro and George Edward Hart; the ideas of translation from the translators of my poetry, Siho Ho (Chengru He) and Hua Zhao. Translation and intercultural exchanges involve loss and gain and a creativity that creates new poems on their own merit and not simply as they are connected to the originals. These networks of translation and intercultural exchange are not binary but multiple
Art · China · Creativity · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Translation studies · Computer Science · Law · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |