Dissertation > Excellent graduate degree dissertation topics show

Study on Children’s Literature Translation Strategies under the Manipulation Theory

Author: ChuHaiYan
Tutor: ZhuHanXiong
School: Wuhan University of Technology
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Manipulation theory children’s literature translation The Wind in the Willows
CLC: I046
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
Downloads: 175
Quote: 0
Read: Download Dissertation

Abstract


Manipulation theory is an outstanding one in the field of literary translation. A wider perspective for literature translation research was provided by such culture-oriented theory. It not only broke through the limits of conventional research but also opened a new chapter in the annals of translation research.The primary goal of this thesis is to discuss strategies which are noteworthy in the children’s literature translating process. From the perspective of manipulation theory by Andre Lefevere and the current reality concerning children literature translation and its peculiarities, we will perceive three elements of manipulation theory are instructive in children’s literature translation.In light of manipulation theory, we also further point out its limitations. It is one-sided to place too much emphasis on manipulation in the process of translating while ignore the translators as the subject of translating also having their subjectivity. Manipulations of ideology, patronage and poetics were blown up out of all proportion. Some traditional theories’viewpoints were discarded such as equivalence in the translating.The chief aim of the present work is to investigate instructive roles and limitations of manipulation theory. Methods will be adopted in the study are known as descriptive-explanatory research method, contrastive analysis and inductive method. This thesis will make a tentative study of manipulation theory’s influence on children’s literature when it is translated into another language by adopting four Chinese versions of The Wind in the Willows. The thesis does not aim to make a final judgment among these four versions, but to uncover the fact that three elements of manipulation theory will also have an effect on children’s literature translation and will be instructive. Through a comparison study, the writer will show what strategies translators merit attention to achieve better result in the translating. In the translating process, considering the special read group—children, translators also have to keep the readers’consideration in mind from its inception for translators were manipulated by three elements of manipulation theory. But translators are not only be manipulated but also need to tap their subjectivity. As for culture problems during the translating process, this paper calls for the proposition that domestication is to be preferred but foreignization should also be adopted appropriately. Though get out of the limitation of traditional translation theory and turn to a broader field beyond "science" and "theory", every theory has mutual complementation. Therefore, as for the result, equivalence from aspects of meaning, style and others should also need to pursuit.The study of children’s literature and its translation has always been put in a marginalized position. It deserves to be taken seriously by large numbers of translators rather than being brushed aside. By analyzing four versions of The Wind in the Willows under manipulation theory, we hope to share reference strategies with translators in the process of translating children’s literature and arouse more academic interest from other researchers to this special literary genre.

Related Dissertations

  1. (?)bersetzungsanalyse Von,,Pünktchen Und Anton "Aus Der Sicht Der Rezeptions(?)sthetik,I046
  2. Lefevere manipulation Theory \,I046
  3. A Study of Cultural Distance in C-E Journalistic Translation Based on Manipulation Theory,H315.9
  4. On the Translation of Children’s Literature in the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics,I046
  5. A Study of Lu Zhiwei’s Translation of English Poems from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory,I046
  6. Eco-translatology in the Translation of Children’s Literature,I046
  7. On Manipulation in China’s Children Literature Translation Since 1949,I046
  8. Translation Strategies in Chi-Chen Wang’s Dream of the Red Chamber from the Perspective of Manipulation,I046
  9. A Comparative Study of Two English Versions of Lun Yu from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory,H315.9
  10. A Study of Lu Xun’s Translation Activities from the Perspective of Ideology and Poetics in Manipulation Theory,H059
  11. Romantic Colors of the Wind in the Willows,I561.078
  12. The Intended Function of the Target Text & Translation Strategies,H059
  13. Translation as Rewriting,I206.5
  14. Translation of Andersen’s Fairy Tales in China during Its 100-year Course-From Polysystem Perspective,I046
  15. A Contrastive Study of Lu Xun’s and Liang Shiqiu’s Translation Viewpoints: A Manipulative Approach,I046
  16. The Functionalist Approaches to the Translation of Children’s Literature,I046
  17. Interpretation of Children Literature Translation in the May Fourth Period by Chesterman’s Models of Translation Ethics,I046
  18. A Comparative Study on Two Chinese Versions of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the Perspective of Skopos Theory,I046
  19. Reception Aesthetics from the Perspective of Children's Literature Translation,I046
  20. Translation of Foreign Literature in Contemporary China: A Study from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory (1949-2008),I206.7

CLC: > Literature > Literary Theory > Literary Creation > Literary Translation
© 2012 www.DissertationTopic.Net  Mobile