中国百年翻译文学阅读史变迁:表征与反思

A Study of Reading the History of Translated Literature in China

中国近一百五十年翻译文学阅读史之流变表明,中国翻译文学发端于"救亡图存"的国家理想,经历了以意识形态为主导的三十年和呼唤文学理想回归的新时期。翻译文学作品的阅读史也历经了由雅趋俗、从精英阅读到大众阅读、从阅读狂欢到阅读理性的变迁。后网络时代翻译文学阅读式微有其深层的社会、历史和诗学原因。当下,翻译文学阅读之困境启发人们反思电子文明时代碎片化、浏览式阅读情境,并探索翻译文学阅读突围的可能。

The history of reading,a new discipline established under the influence of Annals School,new cultural history and book history,is of dual characteristics of social history and cultural history.Seeing reading as a kind of social practice,it concerns reading habits and reader’s response as well as the influence reading can exert on individuals,the society and the development course of history.This paper,taking the perspective of the history of reading,examines the translated literature in China across a span of 150 years(1870-today)and generalizes the reading history of translated literature,a period that plays an important role in the literature tradition in China.This paper also outlines and characterizes the development of the reading history of translated literature,which started from the urgent need of salvaging China from subjugation in the late Qing Dynasty,and has since gone through a period of 30 years dominated by ideology and finally entered a new period calling for the return to the ideal of literature.A diachronic view of the reading history of translated literature can categorize three shifts in what were read,who read them and how they were read,based on which this paper proceeds to explore the reasons behind the decline of translation literature reading in this Internet Age featuring fragmentation reading,and probes the possible ways of breaking through this plight.