Freedoms and Restrictions of Translator＇s Subjectivity in Literary Translation

With the translation studies leaning to target-language, the translator＇s subjectivity has been paid more and more attention by translation scholars. It is noticed gradually that translation is actually a dynamic and complex process, during which the translator, acting as a reader of the source text and also a writer of the target text, will unavoidably add something subjective in his or her translation. Since literary translation is interwoven with more cultural and social elements, the translator has to make a choice between loyalty and violation, getting freedom and being restricted when he or she confronts with all the clashes and conflicts between the source language culture and the target language culture.

On Translation Thoughts of American Translator Howard Goldblatt

In 2012,Moyan won the Nobel Prize for literature to which the media and the scholars paid great attention.The translations of his works by Howard Goldblatt were also caught great attention.Howard Goldblatt was believed to help Moyan win the Nobel Prize.Based on this,it is necessary to study translation thoughts of Howard Goldblatt,which will provide some references for Chinese literature translations.

A Study of Su Mansu's Literary Translation and His Translation Principles

Su Manshu was a writer and translator in modern China. In addition to his fruitful literary creation, in the aspect of translation, he translated a lot of poetry in English literature, Hugo‘s Les Miserable's and also some Indian literary works. He is good at making use of old verses to translate poetry. As to translation principles, he advocates "translation without increasing", "translation without increasing ornaments," and practices the method of "translation according to the source text context".

Cultural Context in Literary Translation——from the Perspective of Explanatory Function and Restrictive Function

Literary translation is not merely the transformation of words,but it is a cross-cultural activity from cultural perspective.The paper mainly explores the concept of cultural context and the relationship between cultural context and literary translation,and analyzes explanatory function and restrictive function of cultural context in literary translation.If these functions can be involved in the literary translation,it is necessary for translators to resort to different translation strategies according to the different target cultural context.The selection of translation strategies is never random,but constrained by the cultural context.

Reception Aesthetics and Its Enlightenment on Literary Translation

As a kind of reader-centered paradigm of literary research, reception aesthetics studies the reception effects of the text,which is a shift of the focus of literary criticism from the relation between the author and the text to the relation between the text and the reader. Based on the enlightenment of reception aesthetics on literary translation, the translator — the reader of the original text as well as the author of the translated text — must take the reader's"horizon of expectations"into consideration during the process of translation, so as to reach the"fusion of horizons"to the largest extent.

On Feminism in Literary Translation

The 1980s witness the emergence and development of the cultural turn in translation studies,which closely combined translation and culture from then on,and a new perspective-the cultural perspective for translation studies.The gender issue is an important part of cultural studies.Feminist translation theory states its viewpoints on the role of gender,and approves of translators'gender role in the translation of the original text.In a given social context,the writers and translators of literature are both gendered human beings.Therefore,on doubtfully they are influenced by the political,economical and cultural factors.These will more or less put an influence on the writing and the translating.This paper aims to have a systematic analysis on feminist translation theory and explore the relationship between feminism and literary translation.

On Lu Xun’s Responsibility Consciousness in Literary Translation

In literary translation,Lu Xun shouldered the mission and responsibility to his motherland,the people,education,language,literature and art.In his opinion,foreign literature and culture would bring “fire and light” to current society,provide Chinese children and youngsters with valuable readings and enhance the development of Chinese literature,language and characters.In his career of literary translation,Lu Xun fulfilled his long-cherished dream of being a “Spiritual Warrior” in China.

Appreciating literary translations as afterlives of the original work

In literary translation, the original was rewritten and transformed, resulting in the rebirth of the original work--the afterlives. Afterlives are embodied in the re-creation of national literature in other countries. With the translation of western novels at the e, nd of 19th century and the beginning of 20^th century in China, the themes in original novels were re-interpreted and re-invented in Chinese context. Moreover, modern aesthetic mode and value became popular, and ancient Chinese language was renovated into modern style. Afterlives can also be seen in the re-translation that is conducted with different interpretation in the same historical period as well as the re-translation that is performed not from the original language in different historical periods. Literary translators play instrumental role as active agents in the delivery of afterlives, extending and growing the original.

From the Manipulation of Literary Translation to the Manipulation of Literary Creation： A Case Study

Manipulation always means a kind of extraordinary alteration for some purposes. All translation implies a degree of manipulation of the source text for a certain purpose. Liang Shih-chiu＇s literary translation serves for his literary creation which aims to promote colloquialism and to construct New Literature in the May Fourth Movement. Literary translation is the foundation of literary creation, or rather, its important strategy. The paper, from the perspective of Manipulation Theory, analyzes the purpose and strategy of Liang Shih-chiu＇s literary translation and explores the influence of his literary translation upon his literary creation in terms of ideology, poetics and patronage.

Research on the Precision Japanese Literary Translation Mode from the Perspectives of Cultural Equivalence and Metaphor

In this paper, we conduct research on the precision Japanese literary translation mode from the general perspectives of cultural equivalence and metaphor. Language is a nation all enrichment culture information, the semantics of the accurate grasp, flexible use of expression, this requires the translator to the nation＇ s culture will have a more profound understanding. Accumulating knowledge of Japanese culture, to understand the background knowledge of the translator of the original has a very important role in the accuracy of the translation in the context of Japanese culture, not in a few words to give full expression to the Japanese national characteristics of the life and customs. Under this background, our research proposes the novel paradigm for the corresponding researches that will enhance our understanding of the Japanese which is meaningful.

On Feminist Translation Theory and Literary Translation

Feminist translation theory emerged in the late 70 s and early 80 s of 20 th Century.It is the combination of the feministmovement and the"cultural turn"of translation.It was introduced to China in the 1980 s,and with the development of the transla-tion theory and translation practice,more and more Chinese translators want to study the feminist translation theory from the deeplevels.

The Role and Nature of Literary Translation in Comparative Literature

Literary translation is in fact a kind creation for literature, which involves the translator's understanding of the source-language work and the creation of the target-language work. It promotes the communication and interaction of the two literatures and now has become an indispensible existing form of comparative literature.

The Translator’s Subjectivity in Literary Translation

忠实问题是翻译的根本问题,翻译界长期以来对译文能否绝对忠实于原文颇有争议。本文从认识论角度对这一问题进行深层次的探讨,通过借鉴德国哲学家伽达默尔的阐释学理论,并结合典型的文学翻译实例,揭示译者主体性是译文不可能绝对忠实于原文的根本原因,认为译者主体性在文学翻译中体现得尤为明显。

The Origin of Four-Character Structures with er (而) in Literary Translation from English into Chinese: A Descriptive Study of A Passage

Four-character structures in Chinese are commonly discussed as tools of embodying the aesthetic properties of both oral and written literature works.The use of four-character structures in the Chinese translated texts could have the same function,and it is not hard to find in the Chinese translations of English literature works that four-character structures are largely adopted.Through collecting four-character structures with er(而)from a translated work of A Passage to India,and investigating on their origins in the source English text,this thesis uses statistic methods to induce some linguistic properties on the counterparts.From the perspective of analyzing those counterparts which correspond to the Chinese four-character structure translations,certain characteristics or properties are discovered,and inspirations on literary translation techniques are provided.Some discussions are also made concerning possible relations between the four-character structures with er(而)and their ST counterparts.

A Re-study of Derrida's Deconstructive Translation Thought

Since 1995,Derrida's deconstructive translation thought has always been a hot topic in China.Some results have been achieved on Derrida's translation thought research;but there are still some misunderstandings about his thought on translation.This paper intends to employ some words in his works or interview to clarify some misunderstandings about Derrida's translation thought.

Reception Theory and Creative Treason of Literary Translator

In literary translation,creative treason or translation deviations will surely be a shadow in company with each translated work.A translator is both the reader of the source text and the producer of the target text.Applying much on Reception Theory,the present paper explores the issue of translator's creative treason in literary translation in two aspects:one is the translator's creative treason as reader and the other is the translator's creative treason as producer.

Issues Impacting on the Literary Translators

With the development of the advanced communicative technology,the new age has brought more challenges to the professional translators.The current translators have to face the issues of Machine Translation,global English,multilingual and multicultural society etc.Especially for the literary translators,because of the particularity of their work,they have to struggle more for handling these issues.In this article,I just want to present some of the issues which have impact on the literary translators deeply in the future.

The Enlightenment and Study of Literary Translator based on Eco- translatology

Translator’s study is the focus of translation,especially focus of literary translation.The eco-translatology,the combination of ecology and translatology,enables the new development and prosperity of translation.Translator’s study,especially the literary translator’s study,based on the eco-translatology is vital to uncover the mystery of literary translation and cultivate literary translation talents.This paper first analyzes and summarizes research of translator’s study,then briefly introduces the eco-translatology,and finally researches the literary translator from the perspective of eco-translatology with the descriptive method and case study,exemplifies with famous translator Zhang Peiji.

A Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence and Translation Software in Chinese-English Translation:A Focus on Literary and Technical Texts

In recent years,the domain of machine translation has experienced remarkable growth,particularly with the emergence of neural machine translation,which has significantly enhanced both the accuracy and fluency of translation.At the same time,AI also showed its tremendous advancement,with its capabilities now extending to assisting users in a multitude of tasks,including translation,garnering attention across various sectors.In this paper,the author selects representative sentences from both literary and scientific texts,and translates them using two translation software and two AI tools for comparison.The results show that all four translation tools are very efficient and can help with simple translation tasks.However,the accuracy of terminology needs to be improved,and it is difficult to make adjustments based on the characteristics of the target language.It is worth mentioning that one of the advantages of AI is its interactivity,which allows it to modify the translation according to the translator’s needs.