Tag Archives: Lucas Klein

Lucas Klein’s Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Dissertation Reviews has posted Brian Skerratt’s review of Lucas Klein’s dissertation, Foreign Echoes and Discerning the Soil: Dual Translation, Historiography, and World Literature in Chinese Poetry. Skerratt praises Klein’s dissertation for “its ambition and its erudition,” to which I can … Continue reading →

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Short Takes on Long Poems

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Online now are video recordings from the Short Takes on Long Poems symposium, convened by Michele Leggott, Robert Sullivan, and Lisa Samuels at the University of Auckland earlier this year. I attended most of the first day of the symposium … Continue reading →

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Translating Bei Dao

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Translations shape how a poem is read in ways that reveal a great deal about the translators and the audiences they imagine for their work. One of the most effective methods I’ve found for getting my students to appreciate this … Continue reading →

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