Middlebury

CMLT0325A-S22

Tang Poetry/American Poetry
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Tang Poetry / American Poetry
Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound, rival founders of the Imagist poetry movement a century ago, both published influential translations of Tang-dynasty lyrics, even though neither one knew a word of Chinese. In this course, we will not only study their accomplishments in context, but go a step further to begin learning how to read and write the most commonly used characters in Tang poetry so that we can parse a selection of the best poems in the original as we explore such topics as the differences between Chinese and European poetics, theories of translation and intercultural adaptation, and Orientalist fantasies of the ideogram. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary. 3 hrs. lect./disc.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22721
Subject Code:
CMLT
Course Number:
0325
Section Identifier:
A

Course

CMLT 0325

All Sections in Spring 2022

Spring 2022

CMLT0325A-S22 Lecture (Billings)