Translating Wor(l)ds

Collana di studi sulla traduzione e traduzioni delle lingue asiatiche e nordafricane

Between Texts, Beyond Words

Intertextuality and Translation

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Abstract
This volume offers an overview on a variety of intertextual, interdiscursive and cross-cultural practices in the field of translation between Asian and European languages. From a twelth-century Persian poet to a Chinese female novelist of the last century, from the ‘cultural translation’ of Christian texts carried out in pre-modern Japan and modern China, up to the making of the modern Chinese theory of translation based on its encounter with Western literature, the articles collected provide many valuable insights, ensuring a deeper comprehension of the evolving relations between cultures and of the tools adopted by both Asian and European translators on each particular occasion.

Keywords Figurative language • Modernity • Kirishitanban • Translation • Jesuit missionaries • Chinese Bible • Metaphors • Qian Zhongshu • Self-translation • Franciscans in China • Modes of translation in China • Empathetic imagination • Medieval Japan • Missionary linguistics • Pluridiscursivity • Lu Xun • Intertextuality • Zhang Ailing’s novels • Iconic turn • Classical Persian poetry • Sadness • Christian lexicon • Bible translation

Thema codes CFP • JBCC7 • 1F • 1D

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-311-3 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-311-3 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-312-0 | Published Dec. 31, 2018 | Language en

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