"Borrowed Plumage" Polemical Essays on Translation (Approaches to Translation Studies 19) by EugeneChenEoyang Paperback, 197 Pages, Published 2003 by Rodopi ISBN-13: 978-90-420-0854-0, ISBN: 90-420-0854-7
"This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation: some of these "polemic" essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for example, the belief that humor is untranslatable; the assumption that translations are always inferior to the originals; the spread of translations that are more impenetrable to the target audience than the originals ever were to the source language audience; a ..."
Intercultural Explorations Volume 8 of the Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Literature as ... Memory" Leiden 16-22 August 1997 (Textxet 32) by EugeneChenEoyang, Theo D'. Haen, Xxx Xxx Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2005 by Rodopi ISBN-13: 978-90-420-1636-1, ISBN: 90-420-1636-1
"Divided into four sections: "Asian-Western Intersections," "Intercultural Memory," "Intercultural Perspectives on Women," "Genre Studies," and "The Intercultural Arts", these essays from diverse hands and multiple perspectives illuminate the intersections, the cross-sections, and the synergies that characterize significant literary texts and artistic productions. Individually, they exemplify the insights available in an intercultural p ..."
"Over the past fifty years transformations of great moment have taken place in South Africa. Apartheid and the subsequent transition to a democratic, non-racial society in particular have exercised a profound effect on the practice of literature. This study traces the development of literature under apartheid, then seeks to identify the ways in which writers and theatre practitioners are now facing the challenges of a new social order. T ..."