Retranslated Chinese classical canon Journey to the West: a stylometric comparison between Julia Lovell's retranslation and Arthur Waley's translation.
Journey to the West (西游记; Xi You Ji) is one of the best-known classic novels in Chinese literature, and it has been translated into English by various notable translators. This study compares the retranslation of the novel by Julia Lovell published in "Penguin Classics" in 2021 with Arthur Waley's t...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 308 - 321 |
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