As the most popular English novelist Charles Dickens' s early literary works, the English works Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, showed people the different characters. It mainly described an unmarr...As the most popular English novelist Charles Dickens' s early literary works, the English works Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, showed people the different characters. It mainly described an unmarried woman without a wedding ring in a public buildings in a certain town died after giving birth to an orphan. The author through the orphan Oliver Twist's sufferings, described a child not changed his good nature no matter how bad the environment was, not dyed by the surrounding environment, finally adopted by a gentleman to live a happy life. At the same time, the works also described some ugly social phenomenon, as represented by the Jews Fagin and Bill Sikes used children to steal, and guided them for error education, made the children went to a circuit. The author depicted some distinctive characters, but also had its limitations. The author was too idealistic in depicting the bourgeois virtues, but in depicting the social crime phenomenon reflected his prejudice against the Jews.展开更多
The image of Jews,as the“other”,constructed in Oliver Twist by Dickens and reconstructed in its Chinese translation by Wen’an He(1977/1997)1 is studied at the level of lexical items from the perspective of imagolog...The image of Jews,as the“other”,constructed in Oliver Twist by Dickens and reconstructed in its Chinese translation by Wen’an He(1977/1997)1 is studied at the level of lexical items from the perspective of imagology in this paper.Lexical items involving the image of Fagin,the representative of Jews,are negative in the source work.In translating the lexical items to reconstruct Fagin’s image,the translator retains the features of irony and vulgarity carried with them.So,the image of Fagin is generally transported into the target culture basically unchanged.However,due to the translator’s individual reason or the social background of China at that time,those lexical items with religious connotation in the source text are translated without explanation,and as a result,the image of Jews constructed by this kind of lexical items fails to be conveyed to the target readers.展开更多
Oliver Twist is the second novel composed by Charles Dickens,a renowned British writer from the Victorian period.It de⁃scribes the tearful experience of Oliver,an orphan.The work has been analyzed from the perspective...Oliver Twist is the second novel composed by Charles Dickens,a renowned British writer from the Victorian period.It de⁃scribes the tearful experience of Oliver,an orphan.The work has been analyzed from the perspective of translation versions,charac⁃ters or social background,etc.by various scholars,but seldom from the angle of stylistic or even foregrounding.Foregrounding is a visual metaphor aiming to explain a linguistic technique,and originated from painting theory.This thesis will decipher Oliver Twist from the aspect of deviation to get the gist of the work and savor the beauty of stylistic.展开更多
Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens,a very famous novelist of Victoria era,tells the story of the miserable orphan Oliver Twist.The characterization of the main characters demonstrates the author’s romantic reali...Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens,a very famous novelist of Victoria era,tells the story of the miserable orphan Oliver Twist.The characterization of the main characters demonstrates the author’s romantic realism,and has a close connection with Sigmund Freud’s Theory of personality structure.展开更多
文摘As the most popular English novelist Charles Dickens' s early literary works, the English works Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, showed people the different characters. It mainly described an unmarried woman without a wedding ring in a public buildings in a certain town died after giving birth to an orphan. The author through the orphan Oliver Twist's sufferings, described a child not changed his good nature no matter how bad the environment was, not dyed by the surrounding environment, finally adopted by a gentleman to live a happy life. At the same time, the works also described some ugly social phenomenon, as represented by the Jews Fagin and Bill Sikes used children to steal, and guided them for error education, made the children went to a circuit. The author depicted some distinctive characters, but also had its limitations. The author was too idealistic in depicting the bourgeois virtues, but in depicting the social crime phenomenon reflected his prejudice against the Jews.
基金This paper is adapted from my Ph.D.Dissertation which was finished under the supervision of Prof.Rachel Weissbrod at Bar-Ilan University,Israel in 2017.
文摘The image of Jews,as the“other”,constructed in Oliver Twist by Dickens and reconstructed in its Chinese translation by Wen’an He(1977/1997)1 is studied at the level of lexical items from the perspective of imagology in this paper.Lexical items involving the image of Fagin,the representative of Jews,are negative in the source work.In translating the lexical items to reconstruct Fagin’s image,the translator retains the features of irony and vulgarity carried with them.So,the image of Fagin is generally transported into the target culture basically unchanged.However,due to the translator’s individual reason or the social background of China at that time,those lexical items with religious connotation in the source text are translated without explanation,and as a result,the image of Jews constructed by this kind of lexical items fails to be conveyed to the target readers.
文摘Oliver Twist is the second novel composed by Charles Dickens,a renowned British writer from the Victorian period.It de⁃scribes the tearful experience of Oliver,an orphan.The work has been analyzed from the perspective of translation versions,charac⁃ters or social background,etc.by various scholars,but seldom from the angle of stylistic or even foregrounding.Foregrounding is a visual metaphor aiming to explain a linguistic technique,and originated from painting theory.This thesis will decipher Oliver Twist from the aspect of deviation to get the gist of the work and savor the beauty of stylistic.
文摘Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens,a very famous novelist of Victoria era,tells the story of the miserable orphan Oliver Twist.The characterization of the main characters demonstrates the author’s romantic realism,and has a close connection with Sigmund Freud’s Theory of personality structure.
