Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre-the "stele-poem"-in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor struggling to command his personal empire, drawing from a vast range of Chinese texts to explore themes of friendship, love, desire, gender roles, violence, exoticism, otherness, and selfhood. The result is a linguistically and culturally hybrid modernist poetics that is often ironic and at times haunting. Segalen's bilingual masterwork is presented here fully translated, in the most extensively annotated critical edition ever produced. It includes unpublished manuscript material, newly identified sources, commentaries on the Chinese, and a facsimile of the original edition as printed in Beijing in 1914. Volume 2 of this work is available online at www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2 and www.steles.org.

Stèles (wesleyan Poetry Series)

Steles =: [Gu jin bei lu]

Segalen, Victor, 1878-1919; Billings, Timothy James, 1963-; Bush, Christopher, 1968-

Victor Segalen; Timothy James Billings; Christopher Bush

United States, United States of America

Bilingual Chinese-English ed., 2007

Middletown, CT, United States, 2006

Middletown, CT, Connecticut, 2007

Volume 1, 2007

"Victor Segalen, Stèles, [Gu jin bei lu], vol. 2, Chinese sources and contexts, trans. and ed. Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007) is published online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2 and http://www.steles.org "--T.p. verso.
Parallel title on title page in Chinese characters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-415).
Facsim. reprint of French work and Chinese parallel titles with English translation and Chinese parallel titles on facing pages.

"Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre-the "stèle-poem"-in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor struggling to command his personal empire, drawing from a vast range of Chinese texts to explore themes of friendship, love, desire, gender roles, violence, exoticism, otherness, and selfhood. The result is a linguistically and culturally hybrid modernist poetics that is often ironic and at times haunting. Segalen's bilingual masterwork is presented here fully translated, in the most extensively annotated critical edition ever produced. It includes unpublished manuscript material, newly identified sources, commentaries on the Chinese, and a facsimile of the original edition as printed in Beijing in 1914. Volume 2 of this work is available online at www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2 and www.steles.org."--Page 4 de la couverture

V. 1. Stèles -- V. 2. Chinese Sources And Contexts. Victor Segalen ; Translated, Edited, And Annotated By Timothy Billings And Christopher Bush. Victor Segalen, Stèles, [gu Jin Bei Lu], Vol. 2, Chinese Sources And Contexts, Trans. And Ed. Timothy Billings And Christopher Bush (middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007) Is Published Online At Http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2 And Http://www.steles.org --t.p. Verso. The Second Volume Of This Set Is Published Electronically To Provide A Large Amount Of Supplementary Material For Scholars And Students Who Are Interested In Pursuing Further The Chinese Sources And Intertexts Of Segalen’s Poetry. Parallel Title On Title Page In Chinese Characters. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 401-415). System Requirements For Vol. 2: Web Browser; Internet Access; Adobe Acrobat Reader. Facsim. Reprint Of French Work And Chinese Parallel Titles With English Translation And Chinese Parallel Titles On Facing Pages.

v. : 24 cm
System requirements for vol. 2: web browser; internet access; Adobe Acrobat Reader
"Victor Segalen, Stèles, [Gu jin bei lu], vol. 2, Chinese sources and contexts, trans. and ed. Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007) is published online at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/segalen2 and http://www.steles.org "--T.p. verso
The second volume of this set is published electronically to provide a large amount of supplementary material for scholars and students who are interested in pursuing further the Chinese sources and intertexts of Segalen’s poetry
Parallel title on title page in Chinese characters
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-415)
V. 1. Stèles -- v. 2. Chinese sources and contexts

2024-08-23