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Item Details
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STAUNIN MA LANE
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| By: |
Brian Holton (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£12.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848614667 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848614666 |
| Publisher: |
SHEARSMAN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
11 March, 2016 |
| Pages: |
148 |
| Language: |
chi, sco, eng |
| Description: |
Staunin Ma Lane isn't intended to be a comprehensive tour of classical [Chinese] poetry, though it does contain specimens of many of the major genres and styles, and it may serve as a --first primer. Note that the poetry is in the Scots: the English versions are there to help the non-Scots speaker. |
| Synopsis: |
Staunin Ma Lane isn't intended to be a comprehensive tour of classical [Chinese] poetry, though it does contain specimens of many of the major genres and styles, and it may serve as a --first primer. Note that the poetry is in the Scots: the English versions are there to help the non-Scots speaker. It has been my aim to make poems in Scots: if you expect to --find dictionary definitions of Chinese words in my translations, you will be disappointed. That sort of drably mechanical 'accuracy' does not make poetry, and a poem that doesn't move the reader is like a joke that isn't funny. In the translation of poetry, there are many, many more ways of being wrong than of being right, and I do not claim that my versions are in any way de--finitive or better than anyone else's: I do, however, want to say to the reader, "Deek whit the Mither Tongue can dae: gin it can dae this, whit'll it no can dae?" (Look what our mother tongue can do: if it can do this, what will it not do?), and I would urge readers inclined toward translation to do it for themselves, whatever their mother tongue might be. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Shearsman Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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