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A Comparative Study on the Three English Versions of Liao Zhai Zhi Yi from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics

Author: WuZuoYan
Tutor: LiYan
School: Yan'an University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Literary Translation Reception Theory Horizon of expectations Significance is not designated
CLC: I046
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


\had a profound impact. This thought-provoking literary works, due to its rich connotation and implication, gradually translated into different text. The English translation of the novel will no doubt help foreign readers to appreciate the classical Chinese novel, to understand the profound Chinese culture. The author attempts a comparative study of the English translation of the three different periods from the perspective of aesthetics. Reception Aesthetics (also known as the accepted theory) in Germany in the 1960s, the rise of a new paradigm and emerging methodology of literary criticism, the Western Literary Theory from the \metastasis. The emergence of this theory of translation studies provide new ideas and direction. Stressed that the initiative of the readers in the literary process. Reception Aesthetics used in translation studies, research translator in the translation process embodied in the initiative and creativity, to accept the aesthetics of literary works is an unfinished, the schematic structure of the multi-level, full of \significance depends on the reader's \In the process of literary translation, the translator plays the role of a double identity, he is both the recipients of the original information (the reader), and the creators of the target text (Translator). According to the theory of aesthetics, first in the presence of cognitive, such as social experience, aesthetic tendencies, acceptance and other factors, making the different translators interested in the original produce different aesthetic look, the \In addition, a work not all information is presented in front of the reader, it has many meanings undetermined point and significance blank readers need to interpret according to their own understanding. In the process of translation, the translator must consider the existence of the reader, to predict the level of acceptance of the readers and aesthetic taste, try to make their own understanding and interpretation of the original text to fit the reader to the horizon of expectations \fusion of horizons, because of the times and the different historical and cultural backgrounds, different translators have different \reconstruction, according to their own horizon of expectations text of undetermined significance sentinel \In the text, the authors selected three different periods of the English translation of \horizon of expectations \Is rich in content and implication of classic literary works such as \Only through the discovery and interpretation of multiple translations of many, we can continue to nearing completion of its understanding.

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