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
The Story of The Stone is the peak of the art of the novel in ancient China. Its artistic achievement is displayed first of all in its dazzling array of characters. Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai, Yuan...The Story of The Stone is the peak of the art of the novel in ancient China. Its artistic achievement is displayed first of all in its dazzling array of characters. Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai, Yuanyang, Qingwen, and the others all have their distinct personalities and are true to life as if they were living amongst us. These richly complex characters with their different stations in life and divergent views and philosophies act out an intricate pattern of human relationships and conflicts within the Jia family mansion. Apart from their distinct ways of acting and speaking, the peculiarities of their appearances, dress and living arrangements, the names the author gave them also contribute a lot to the successful display of all these characters.展开更多
The culture-loaded word is a symbol of national culture,since national culture with distinctive features is directly or indirectly reflected in its vocabulary.This paper is driven both by qualitative research and by q...The culture-loaded word is a symbol of national culture,since national culture with distinctive features is directly or indirectly reflected in its vocabulary.This paper is driven both by qualitative research and by quantitative method through the comparison and analysis of translation strategies involved in the five types of material culture-loaded-words,namely,apparel,diet,equipment,architecture and medicine,in The Story of Stone by David Hawkes.With the final quantitative statistics of the proportion of each translation method,it aims to scrutinize either the broad spectrum or the specific characteristics of those translation strategies so as to provide a perspective for the study of cultural translations.展开更多
As an encyclopedic novel and the summit of Chinese classical literary creation,Hongloumeng has not received due critical attention to its unusual narrative style,let alone abundant unreliable narrative.From unreliable...As an encyclopedic novel and the summit of Chinese classical literary creation,Hongloumeng has not received due critical attention to its unusual narrative style,let alone abundant unreliable narrative.From unreliable narration of narrator and character,this research probes into effective translation strategies to achieve a balance between source text and target text,in light of a comparative analysis of typical illustrations taken from A Dream of Red Mansions and The Story of the Stone.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The Story of The Stone is the peak of the art of the novel in ancient China. Its artistic achievement is displayed first of all in its dazzling array of characters. Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai, Yuanyang, Qingwen, and the others all have their distinct personalities and are true to life as if they were living amongst us. These richly complex characters with their different stations in life and divergent views and philosophies act out an intricate pattern of human relationships and conflicts within the Jia family mansion. Apart from their distinct ways of acting and speaking, the peculiarities of their appearances, dress and living arrangements, the names the author gave them also contribute a lot to the successful display of all these characters.
文摘The culture-loaded word is a symbol of national culture,since national culture with distinctive features is directly or indirectly reflected in its vocabulary.This paper is driven both by qualitative research and by quantitative method through the comparison and analysis of translation strategies involved in the five types of material culture-loaded-words,namely,apparel,diet,equipment,architecture and medicine,in The Story of Stone by David Hawkes.With the final quantitative statistics of the proportion of each translation method,it aims to scrutinize either the broad spectrum or the specific characteristics of those translation strategies so as to provide a perspective for the study of cultural translations.
文摘As an encyclopedic novel and the summit of Chinese classical literary creation,Hongloumeng has not received due critical attention to its unusual narrative style,let alone abundant unreliable narrative.From unreliable narration of narrator and character,this research probes into effective translation strategies to achieve a balance between source text and target text,in light of a comparative analysis of typical illustrations taken from A Dream of Red Mansions and The Story of the Stone.
