Sound and Sense – A Musical Look at Chinese Poetry in 1916

Authors

  • Zeb Raft University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21992/T9V637

Abstract

This essay examines two contributions related to “Chinese poetry” from Eunice Tietjens, an early editor of and contributor to the Chicago-based magazine Poetry. In the first, Tietjens uses western musical notation to transcribe the “tunes” of two Chinese scholars chanting a short poem. The second is a group of Tietjens’s own poetic sketches of the China she witnessed on her 1916 visit. Taken together, these projects provide a useful commentary on the translation of Chinese poetry in the early 20th century.

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Author Biography

Zeb Raft, University of Alberta

Zeb Raft teaches pre-modern Chinese literature at the University of Alberta. His interests are in the poetry, poetics, and the culture of poetry in pre-modern China, and one of his active projects involves a database catalog of translations of Chinese poetry into English.

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Published

2011-03-23

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010): TRANSLATION AND IMPERSONATION

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ARTICLES

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