Leonora Min Zhou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Leonora Min Zhou is involved.
Articles
2021 The translator as cartographer: Cognitive maps and world-making in translation Target 33:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
The concept of a cognitive map has been borrowed from psychology by literary scholars to denote the mental representation of the spatial layout of (a) storyworld(s). The classic Chinese novel 紅樓夢
Hongloumeng ‘The Story of the Stone’ (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber) is… read more
2018 Towards a poetics of immersion in lyric translation: Aesthetic illusion and the translator as immersive reader in English translations of classical Chinese ci poetry Target 30:3, pp. 388–414 | Article
This study, with reference to a variety of English translations of Chinese ci poetry (詞), sets out to demonstrate a mental state of ‘aesthetic illusion’, in which the translator-as-reader gets immersed into (an) imaginary world(s) triggered by the original poems and imaginatively experiences the… read more