豪厄尔《今古奇观》译本儒家家庭观的叙事重构

Confucian family view reconstructed in the narrative of E.B.Howell’s The Inconstancy of Madam Chuang and Other Stories from the Chinese

本文在阐述儒家家庭观及其在小说家庭叙事中的塑造方式基础上,探讨豪厄尔《今古奇观》译本对儒家家庭观的叙事重构策略。研究发现,译者运用多元化的叙事策略,对原叙事所塑造的儒家家庭观进行了重构;其选材的时代性与普适性、中西家庭观的异同点等,有利于儒家思想文学路径的域外传播。

This article explores the narrative strategy employed in E.B.Howell’s The Inconstancy of Madam Chuang and Other Stories from the Chinese,based on the mechanism of constructing the Confucian family view in the original narrative.It is found that diversified narrative strategies are employed to reconstruct the Confucian family view shaped in the original fiction narrative;the epochal and universal nature of the translation material selection,and the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western family views are conducive to the dissemination of Confucian thought constructed in literary works.