Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of lite...Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of literary stylistics is new.The Dead is thefinal and best-known story of Dubliners.This paper aims to analyze three Chinese versions of The Dead in the perspective of liter-ary stylistics in order to test the validity of retranslation hypothesis.展开更多
This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung&...This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.展开更多
文摘Literary stylistics,based on linguistics and literary criticism has developed into a new discipline,which is one importantmethod to analyze the fiction translation.The study on retranslation in the perspective of literary stylistics is new.The Dead is thefinal and best-known story of Dubliners.This paper aims to analyze three Chinese versions of The Dead in the perspective of liter-ary stylistics in order to test the validity of retranslation hypothesis.
基金part of the research project titled "The English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi"(18CYY012),funded by the National Social Science Fund of China
文摘This paper contains a charge of plagiarism in which Cheung Yik-man, the translator of a classic Chinese novel San Guo Yan Yi, failed to acknowledge the existing translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang while Cheung's retranslation is extremely close to Yangs' with some changes only in the first two chapters. In this case, paratexts to Cheung Yikman's version covered up the behaviour of plagiarism, which is different from Lawrence Venuti's discussion of paratexts' function in his 2004 essay as "an immediate form of intertextuality" and "make[s] explicit the competing interpretation". This article examines the unreliability of paratexts in intralingual translation, based on a case in English translations of San Guo Yan Yi: Cheung Yik-man's translation of "The Battle of the Red Cliff" excerpted from the novel.
