{"product_id":"steles-wesleyan-poetry-series","title":"Stèles (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"First English critical edition of a bilingual masterpiece with facsimile and facing-page translation\n\nWinner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008)\n\nVictor 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 It includes unpublished manuscript material, newly identified sources, commentaries on the Chinese, and a facsimile of the original edition as printed in Beijing in 1914.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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0819568325\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0819568325.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Segalen, Victor|Bush, Christopher|Billings, Timothy|Saussy, Haun\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41537972011066,"sku":"DBV.0819568325.A","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0819568325-0.jpg?v=1784351884","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/steles-wesleyan-poetry-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}