叙述距离理论观照下的儿童文学汉译:《王子与贫儿》个案研究

Translation of Children's Literature from the Perspective of Narrative Distance Theory: A Case Study of The Prince and the Pauper

本文以美国著名文学批评家韦恩·布斯在其文学批评代表作《小说修辞学》中提出的叙述距离理论为理论框架,结合儿童读者的特殊性,分析了儿童文学翻译中译者采取的距离调控的目的和手段,并对马克·吐温的《王子与贫儿》两个中译本进行比较研究,探索这一理论在指导和评价儿童文学翻译的必要性和可行性。

The paper is based on the Narrative Distance Theory proposed by Wayne Clayson Booth,a famous American literary critic,in his masterpiece The Rhetoric of Fiction.Booth claims that the novel is a kind of narration by the 'implied author'.To exert impact on the assumed readers,the author should make use of many techniques,including his control of narrative distance.The paper analyzes the aims and ways to adjust the distance rendered by the translator when he faces children readers.Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper is the case of the paper.Based on the comparison between its two Chinese versions,the paper probes into the necessity and feasibility of using the Narrative Distance Theory in the translation of children's literature.