接受美学视域下的中国志怪小说英译——以《太平广记》中小说标题英译为例

A Study on the English Translation of Chinese Zhiguai Fiction from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics ——with the Title Translation of the Novels in Anthology of Tales From Records of the Taiping Era as an Example

丁往道、张光前等专家学者都曾对《太平广记》中的志怪小说进行过翻译研究。但从两位的翻译文本来看,二者的翻译策略及翻译目的有很大的差异性,从而使翻译文本发生了很大的变化。通过对《太平广记》中志怪小说篇名翻译的比较可知,丁译策略为异化译法,而张译为归化译法。接受美学确立了读者在文学翻译活动中的中心地位,从接受美学视角来看,丁译、张译策略差异的原因,即以读者为主体从读者的水平和要求出发,以读者的接受为翻译作品好坏的评价标准而产生的。丁译是为了满足内地读者学习英语语言的需要;张译是以英语读者为主,目的是传播文化,用归化的翻译策略更易于西方读者的理解。因此,评价志怪小说英译的优劣应以读者的接受为标准。

Reception aesthetics established the central status of the readers in the lierary translation activities . After the comparison of the two novels ’ titles, it is clear that Ding adopted foreignization and Zhang adopted domes-tication.The reason of the different choices of translation strategies is “readers’ reception”---taking readers’ cultural levels and reading requirements into consideration and taking readers ’ reception as the evaluation criterion of the translations .