This paper discusses the preservation of the poems＇ aesthetic effects in translation based on the reception aesthetics theory and the corpus from two English versions of The Story of the Stone. As Chinese traditional...This paper discusses the preservation of the poems＇ aesthetic effects in translation based on the reception aesthetics theory and the corpus from two English versions of The Story of the Stone. As Chinese traditional poems are part of world cultural treasure, the preservation of aesthetic effects in translation is of great importance in cultural communication. This paper attempts to solve the problem of preserving the aesthetic effects of Chinese poems in translation and keeping the target texts acceptable to the target language readers from the aspects of beauty of musicality, sense and flavor,展开更多
Translation and aesthetic are invariably closely related topics since the ancient time.Liu Miqing said, " aesthetic is a task that ' can't steer away' in the Chinese translation theory,just like our t...Translation and aesthetic are invariably closely related topics since the ancient time.Liu Miqing said, " aesthetic is a task that ' can't steer away' in the Chinese translation theory,just like our translation can't steer away from Chinese."(2005) In the Chinese literature,Moonlight over the Lotus Pond is like a pearl in the elaborate works.This thesis is to make a comparison of the three English translations of Moonlight over the Lotus Pond from the perspective of aesthetic translation.It grasps the essence of mechanisms of translation on the basis of modern aesthetic principles.Also,there will be a brief analysis of the techniques in the aesthetic translation,i.e.the aesthetic effect in phonology and rhythm,artistic conception,creative translation,parallelism and conciseness.In this thesis the translations from Zhu Chunshen,Wang Jiaosheng,Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang are chosen to analyze the techniques in translating prose,in recreating the aesthetic effect,by which a conclusion about the factors of context,artistic conception and technique of writing is made.展开更多
文摘This paper discusses the preservation of the poems＇ aesthetic effects in translation based on the reception aesthetics theory and the corpus from two English versions of The Story of the Stone. As Chinese traditional poems are part of world cultural treasure, the preservation of aesthetic effects in translation is of great importance in cultural communication. This paper attempts to solve the problem of preserving the aesthetic effects of Chinese poems in translation and keeping the target texts acceptable to the target language readers from the aspects of beauty of musicality, sense and flavor,
文摘Translation and aesthetic are invariably closely related topics since the ancient time.Liu Miqing said, " aesthetic is a task that ' can't steer away' in the Chinese translation theory,just like our translation can't steer away from Chinese."(2005) In the Chinese literature,Moonlight over the Lotus Pond is like a pearl in the elaborate works.This thesis is to make a comparison of the three English translations of Moonlight over the Lotus Pond from the perspective of aesthetic translation.It grasps the essence of mechanisms of translation on the basis of modern aesthetic principles.Also,there will be a brief analysis of the techniques in the aesthetic translation,i.e.the aesthetic effect in phonology and rhythm,artistic conception,creative translation,parallelism and conciseness.In this thesis the translations from Zhu Chunshen,Wang Jiaosheng,Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang are chosen to analyze the techniques in translating prose,in recreating the aesthetic effect,by which a conclusion about the factors of context,artistic conception and technique of writing is made.
