Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator.Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored.This article contributes a new way of understan...Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator.Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored.This article contributes a new way of understanding poetry translation by re-theorizing the practice with reference to the concept of blank-sign.In the light of the blank-sign,we see poetry as a genre rich with meaning-charged blank-signs and poetry translation as a"blank-flling"endeavour to seek relevance for the poem in the target sociocultural context while craftily leaving its overall poetic"blankness"intact for meaningful reading and contemplation.We illustrate this idea with the Spanish translation of two contemporary Chinese poems,with a focus on discussing the challenges with regard to communicating the culture-laden images and the intertextual connections in the original poem.Based on our preliminary findings,we highlight the value of the study of blank-signs in poetry translation and the need for translators to draw insights from cross-linguistic analysis to inform their practice.This semiotic account offers insights into how poetry translation can be alternatively conceptualised and has implications for practitioners involved in poetry and translation.展开更多
The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two mo...The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two modern Chinese versions of Gabriel Garcfa Marquez＇s One Hundred Years of Solitude. The case study reveals that in translating linguistic events, textual features and cultural phenomena that are unknown to the target audience, for example, magical realism, into Chinese, translators may adopt a range of translation strategies and tactics that lead to significant differences between the genre of the translation and the corre- sponding genre in the target language. New linguistic expressions and writing techniques introduced by experimental literary translation will either be normalised by existing writing conventions or be accepted by the target readership which in turn will expand and enrich the target language and cultural system.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to do a comparative study of two complete Spanish versions of Shi Jing with a detailed analysis of the poem Junzi Xielao.The culture and personal backgrounds of the two translators,their t...The purpose of this paper is to do a comparative study of two complete Spanish versions of Shi Jing with a detailed analysis of the poem Junzi Xielao.The culture and personal backgrounds of the two translators,their translation purposes and intended readers largely influenced the translating style and technique of the two versions.展开更多
基金the funding by Nanjing Youth Literature Talent Programme forher translation and research work.
文摘Poetry is often seen as the ultimate challenge for a literary translator.Why it is so and how in reality translators manage to accomplish this feat remain to be explored.This article contributes a new way of understanding poetry translation by re-theorizing the practice with reference to the concept of blank-sign.In the light of the blank-sign,we see poetry as a genre rich with meaning-charged blank-signs and poetry translation as a"blank-flling"endeavour to seek relevance for the poem in the target sociocultural context while craftily leaving its overall poetic"blankness"intact for meaningful reading and contemplation.We illustrate this idea with the Spanish translation of two contemporary Chinese poems,with a focus on discussing the challenges with regard to communicating the culture-laden images and the intertextual connections in the original poem.Based on our preliminary findings,we highlight the value of the study of blank-signs in poetry translation and the need for translators to draw insights from cross-linguistic analysis to inform their practice.This semiotic account offers insights into how poetry translation can be alternatively conceptualised and has implications for practitioners involved in poetry and translation.
文摘The main purpose of this paper is to develop useful empirical research methods to advance the understanding of experimental Chinese literary translation. This will be based on an empirical corpus-based study of two modern Chinese versions of Gabriel Garcfa Marquez＇s One Hundred Years of Solitude. The case study reveals that in translating linguistic events, textual features and cultural phenomena that are unknown to the target audience, for example, magical realism, into Chinese, translators may adopt a range of translation strategies and tactics that lead to significant differences between the genre of the translation and the corre- sponding genre in the target language. New linguistic expressions and writing techniques introduced by experimental literary translation will either be normalised by existing writing conventions or be accepted by the target readership which in turn will expand and enrich the target language and cultural system.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to do a comparative study of two complete Spanish versions of Shi Jing with a detailed analysis of the poem Junzi Xielao.The culture and personal backgrounds of the two translators,their translation purposes and intended readers largely influenced the translating style and technique of the two versions.
