- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name "Cold Mountain") and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him.
Han-shan and the CMPs are amongst the most legendary literary landscapes and cultural memories in the history of world scholarly exchange. The maniac poet recluse hidden in the Cold Mountains, the delicate poetic realms of Confucianism, Buddhism, Zen and Taoism contained in the Cold Mountain Poems, and the incredible pervasiveness of its text travel and canon construction worldwide, as well as the profound impact of CMPs on comparative literature, world literature and Chinese studies, provide the perfect lens to learn about Chinese language, literature, culture and society. This book is thus intended to investigate CMPs in a coherent global context. Considering the vertical studies of the Chinese literature polysystem, it highlights the horizontal influence of CMPs, literarily or non-literarily. Furthermore, it addresses the making and developing of the Han-shan phenomenon and its implications for translation studies, travel writing, canon construction and literary historiography.
This book is for scholars, researchers and students in literary history and East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese literature and culture and those interested in the history of poetry in general.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Travel Writing and Translation Studies
- 2 Text Travel and Canon Construction
- 3 Cultural Norms of the Departure and Intralingual Travel of the CMPs
- 4 Cultural Polysystem of Arrivals and Interlingual Travel of the CMPs
- 5 Canon Construction of the CMPs in the Cultural Polysystem of Arrivals: A Case Study on Gary Snyder’s Translation of the CMPs
- 6 Return Journey of the CMPs and Their Canon Reconstruction in Chinese Literature
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- Afterword
- References
- Index