"Cai Wei",an ancient Chinese poem from a poetry collection called Shi Jing,has been translated into English by many people,while those English versiom differ.According to Andre Lefevere's Manipulation Th..."Cai Wei",an ancient Chinese poem from a poetry collection called Shi Jing,has been translated into English by many people,while those English versiom differ.According to Andre Lefevere's Manipulation Theory,the three main factors that manipulate translation are patronage,ideology,arid poetics.This translation theory can be well applied in the analysis and appreciation of English versions of"Cai Wei".The factors that manipulate the two versiom,respectively translated by Xu Yuanchong and Ezra Pound,can be located through detailed analyses and comparison between the chosen versions from the perspective of the Manipulation Theory.More specifically,it is Xu's readers,personal experiences,traditional Chinese philosophy and ideology,as well as the theories of the former Chinese translators that constitute the major manipulating factors that influenced his Chinese-oriented translation;for Pound,his English-oriented translation was affected by his avantgarde readers,Ernest Fenollosa and imagism.展开更多
文摘"Cai Wei",an ancient Chinese poem from a poetry collection called Shi Jing,has been translated into English by many people,while those English versiom differ.According to Andre Lefevere's Manipulation Theory,the three main factors that manipulate translation are patronage,ideology,arid poetics.This translation theory can be well applied in the analysis and appreciation of English versions of"Cai Wei".The factors that manipulate the two versiom,respectively translated by Xu Yuanchong and Ezra Pound,can be located through detailed analyses and comparison between the chosen versions from the perspective of the Manipulation Theory.More specifically,it is Xu's readers,personal experiences,traditional Chinese philosophy and ideology,as well as the theories of the former Chinese translators that constitute the major manipulating factors that influenced his Chinese-oriented translation;for Pound,his English-oriented translation was affected by his avantgarde readers,Ernest Fenollosa and imagism.
基金sponsored by Jiangsu Philosophy and Social Science Key Program for Universities and Colleges entitled“Complex Corpus-based Study of Style of Poetry Translation by Poet Translators”(Grant No.:2018SJZDI160).
