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 cultu...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.展开更多
文摘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.