Translating form and sound: Chinese-English interlanguage poetry and poetics
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing
- Room
- Wolfson Lecture Theatre (SWLT)
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
What happens when translation moves beyond transmitting meaning to attempt to transmit the aural, visual, and formal qualities (rhyme, meter, parallelism, etc.) of one language into another?
What if translation could move beyond the scope of translating the meaning of one text into the meaning of another but to translate whole systems of poetics at scale? In this talk we will explore a wide variety of experimental translation, transliteration, and interlanguage projects that blur the boundaries between Chinese and English.
Registration
This event is open to the public and free to attend; however, registration is required. This event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.
Organiser
This event has been organised by the SOAS China Institute.
About the speaker
Professor Jonathan Stalling is William J. Crowe Chair in Geopolitics and Professor of International & Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He co-directs the Institute for US-China Issues and directs the Newman Prizes, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, and the Chinese Literature Today book series. His interdisciplinary research explores English-Chinese translation, poetics, linguistics, literature, and philosophy. He has authored or edited eight books, including Poetics of Emptiness, Grotto Heaven, and Lost Wax. He translated Winter Sun: Poetry of Shi Zhi (1966–2005), a National Translation Award finalist. His Chinese-English interlanguage work received a Chinese patent in 2020.
Chair
This event will be chaired by Dr Cosima Bruno (Reader in Chinese Literature, SOAS School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics).
Contact
Email: sci@soas.ac.uk
