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Mist-/Mys-tification of the Source Text: Dynamic Ambivalence in the Chinese Ulysses.

Focuses on Chinese author Jin Di's technique of translating James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' which aspires to achieve the closest approximation in total effect to the source language. Background on Jin's literary career; Translation of the typographical features of Joyce's texts; Approximation in Chinese o...

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Published in:James Joyce Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 251 - 262
Main Author: Li-ling Tseng
Format: Article
Published: University of Tulsa Winter99
Subjects:
Jin Di
Ulysses (Book : Joyce)
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Translators
China
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Focuses on Chinese author Jin Di's technique of translating James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' which aspires to achieve the closest approximation in total effect to the source language. Background on Jin's literary career; Translation of the typographical features of Joyce's texts; Approximation in Chinese of the epic-related epithets associated with proper names; Conveyance of Joyce's humor.