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A Comparative Study of the Two Translated Versions of Jane Eyre from the Perspective of Reception Theory

Author: ZhouZuoZuo
Tutor: JinHui
School: Shanghai Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Reception Theory Translation Comparative study Jane Eyre
CLC: I046
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Charlotte Bronte's \Its translation into more than forty kinds in China, the long history of its acceptance in China. The translation analysis are translations of Li Jiye 1980s the translation and yellow Yuanshen 1990s. The accepted theory is the theory of literary criticism that appeared in Germany in the twentieth century, the sixties and seventies. It originated from modern hermeneutics, that translation is interpretation, it is stressed that readers actively construct meaning and contribution to the role as well as the text of openness, highlighting the interaction between the communicative nature of literary reading or text - readers. It should be pointed out that, while accepting the theory emphasizes the infinite possibilities of text interpretation, this interpretation is also within the scope of the text or text-based. Accept the theory of translation revelation. This paper introduces and use of accepted theory core concepts: the horizon of expectations, calling structure, aesthetic pleasure to the original and two in translation as a corpus, based on a detailed analysis of the illustration. Horizon of expectations means the literary acceptance activities, the readers of the original range of experience, fun, values, ideals comprehensive formed literary works an appreciation of standards and the level of appreciation. Vision of literary works and readers of the original expectation horizon in a constantly dynamic process. The potential significance of the works displayed in this process gradually. To accept the main ages continued understanding the changing horizon, in-depth understanding of the implication of the work by the fusion of horizons. Li Jiye and Huang Yuanshen as the translator of two different eras, different horizon of expectations, the different translation pursuit. The analysis showed that Li Jiye translations by ideology and political factors, some of the words in the text or content translation is given ideological color. The novel original reaction the emerging bourgeoisie requirements of the industrial revolution. Horizon of expectations and novel fusion as a proletarian revolutionary intellectuals Li Jiye, so translation services on the purpose of the revolution, to awaken people's sense of class struggle. On the other hand, Huang Yuanshen translation focuses on style translation, reflects the beauty and poetry of the original form and meaning, using different translation strategies, more readers expectations aesthetic factors to consider. Literature in this article is full of gaps and sentinel from multi-level system of language structure, to summon readers or translator will these gaps continue the original concrete, which communicate with the original, adjust their horizon and intention, reconstruction significance. There are different ways in the two translators to fill in the translation process is caused due to the differences of the two languages ??and cultures, regardless of language or cultural blank. Literary works as the object of the reader's aesthetic needs. The essence of the aesthetic experience is a pleasant aesthetic. Readers can play through their own creativity and the exchange of works of art is a pleasure. The aesthetic value of the work to take care of the translator in the translation process, flexible translation strategies to reflect the re-creation of the original artistic beauty. Compare two translations is not difficult to find, Huang Yuanshen the translation to bring more aesthetic enjoyment. Rhetorical devices such as onomatopoeia, figurative translation is extremely vivid, give the impression that a lot of imagination. From the point of view of the theory, translation strategies is the communicative strategies play an intermediary role between the original author and reader, the translator through it. Li Jiye literal approach, retained many European syntax. Huang Yuanshen the translation literal paraphrase the blending, consider the aesthetic level and the level of acceptance of today's readers. Two translated for this novel in the spread and acceptance of China made the contribution is an important part of the history of translation.

A Comparative Study of the Two Translated Versions of Jane Eyre from the Perspective of Reception Theory

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