《Chinese Poetry in Translation》.ppt

Once Upon a “Chinoiseries”… Getting Into Poetry… Getting Into Poetry… Rendering in English… Block-buster Comprehension… Block-buster Comprehension… Dazzle of the spotlight… Dazzle of the spotlight… Latecomer’s surpassing… Latecomer’s Surpassing… Latecomer’s Surpassing… Latecomer’s Surpassing… Poems of Chinoiseries * Presented by Dr. Lan Jiang, William Paterson University, USA Revised * 王昌龄《闺怨》 十五始展眉，愿同尘与灰。常存抱柱信，岂上望夫台。十六君远行，瞿塘滟滪堆。五月不可触，猿声天上哀。 1917年，旅居中国的艾斯科夫带着大量中国艺术品回到美国举办展览，其中包括一些书法艺术作品——艾斯科夫称之为“书写的画（Written Pictures）”。 渔人网集澄潭下，贾客船随返照来。 全书分两个部分，第一部分以诗人选诗共119首，其中唐诗占109首，以李白作品入选最多，达83首。此书的第二部分，即标题为“书写的画”的部分比较特殊，是对碑帖和书法作品中的诗歌翻译共18首。 Poésies De l’époque Des Thang 1862 D’Hervey Saint-Denys 1823-1892 从18世纪末到1840年鸦片战争之前，英国的传教士汉学阶段，“汉学的成果主要是语言知识、地理民俗、游记之类”，“作为中国古典文学研究前期准备的作品翻译刚刚萌生。 ——陈友冰：英国汉学的阶段性特征及成因探析-以中国古典文学研究为中心,，汉学研究通讯，总第27期，2008 1898 1883, 1923 1901 Herbert Allen Giles 1845-1935 Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng1872 - 1945 Granville Bantock, Sir 1868-1946 by Cranmer-Byng By Giles And grieves for him she lent to fame and war. She sees the bloom of the willows far and wide Climbs the Kingfisher’s Tower. Suddenly On whom as yet sorrow hath laid no scar, At the first call of spring the fair young bride, Clad in bright silk and blue embroidery, Tears in the Spring Ernest Francisco Fenollosa 1853 – 1908 Mary McNeil Fenollosa Ezra W. L. Pound 1885 – 1972 You want into far Ku-to-Yen, by the river of swirling eddies At Sixteen you departed by Ezra Pound The monkeys make sorrow noise overhead And you have been gone five months Why should I climb the look out? Forever and forever, and forever I desired my dust to be mingled with yours At fifteen I stopped scowling The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Florence Wheelock Ayscough 1878-1942 Amy Lowell, 1874-1925 It cannot be too firmly insisted upon that the Chinese character itself plays a considerable part in Chinese poetic composition. Calligraphy and poetry are mixed up together in the Chinese m