Reading Tolkien in Chinese

Reading Tolkien in Chinese
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781350374669
ISBN-13 : 1350374660
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Book Synopsis Reading Tolkien in Chinese by : Eric Reinders

Download or read book Reading Tolkien in Chinese written by Eric Reinders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin and The Unfinished Tales, Eric Reinders reveals the mechanics of meaning by literally back-translating the Chinese into English to dig into the conceptual common grounds shared by religion, fantasy and translation, namely the suspension of disbelief, and questions of truth - literal, allegorical and existential. With coverage of themes such as gods and heathens, elves and 'Men', race, mortality and immortality, fate and doom, and language, Reinder's journey to Chinese Middle-earth and back again drastically alters views on Tolkien's work where even basic genre classification surrounding fantasy literature look different through the lens of Chinese literary expectations. Invoking scholarship in Tolkien studies, fantasy theory and religious and translations studies, this is an ambitious exercises in comparative imagination across cultures that suspends the prejudiced hierarchy of originals over translations.


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