Indic Echoes: Form, Content, and World Literature in Tang Dynasty Regulated Verse
- Resource Type
- research-article
- Authors
- KLEIN, Lucas
- Source
- Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), 2013 Dec 01. 35, 59-96.
- Subject
- Poetry
Buddhism
Medieval poetry
Religious poetry
Poetic meter
World literature
Literary style
Literary criticism
Language translation
Lyric poetry
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 01619705
Can the methods of reading literature in translation extend to readings of texts in the language of their writing? Engaging with current discussions of world literature, "Indic Echoes" treats medieval Chinese regulated verse (lüshi ) as translation, reading poems in that form in terms of foreignization and nativization to examine not only the cultural significance of influence from Indic languages and culture, but also for what it discloses about the constitution of "Chineseness" in the literary tradition.