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Ezra Pound's Cathay

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Wai-lim Yip
2015
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Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound’s translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound’s principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, and shows in considerable detail his techniques in translating the Cathay poems.

Originally published in 1969.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-vi

Preface

pp. vii-x

Acknowledgments

pp. xi

Contents

pp. xii-xiii

Abbreviations

pp. xiv

Introduction

pp. 3-7

1. The Chinese Poem: Some Aspects of the Problem of Syntax in Translation

pp. 8-33

2. Precision or Suggestion: Pre-Cathay Obsessions

pp. 34-69

3. His "Maestria" in Translation: Limitations and Breakthrough

pp. 70-101

4. In Search of Forms of Consciousness

pp. 102-168

Appendix 1. From the Fenollosa Notebooks

pp. 169-180

Appendix 2. Cathay Retranslated

pp. 181-232

Selected Bibliography

pp. 233-250

Indexes

pp. 251-259
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