英诗《公主》片段重译现象的空间性阐释

Interpreting the Retranslations of an Excerpt of The Princess from the Perspective of Space Theory

丁尼生的长诗《公主》(The Princess)中有一个片段刻画了一位大男子主义者的形象。自上世纪末以来,中国的坊间和网络对该片段诗产生了浓厚的兴趣并竞相翻译,至此已有数十种中文译本。中国当代的社会为《公主》片段诗形塑了一个翻译空间,而翻译空间的纬度性又与人类生活的社会性和历史性结合,对原文文本注入多次、多重的阐释,从而产生了多元的、异质的译本。通过对片段诗译本空间的解读,文章展现了翻译与社会交互影响的各种力量,原文作者、译者、读者、评论者纠结在翻译空间里;翻译空间生产、翻译文本、翻译研究成为一种互文性的空间结构。

An excerpt of The Princess, a verse written by Alfred Tennyson, sketches a male chauvinist. Since the end of the 20th century the excerpt has been translated into Chinese, for both traditional andience and the netizens. By now there have appeared dozens of Chinese versions. This paper argues that the contemporary Chinese society has shaped a translation space for the excerpt, which is characterized by diversity and heterogeneity and interaction with other human spaces. In this space, the source text has been and will be reinterpreted many times. And then the paper, by interpreting the Chinese versions in the space, reveals how translation＇ s power influence the society and vice versa, and shows the contest for the space among the author, translators, readership and critics. Moreover, translation studies is also involved in the space.