许渊冲 许明英译《牡丹亭》分析——从翻译美学的角度-an analysis of xu yuanchongs english translation of peony pavilion from the perspective of translation aesthetics.docxVIP

AbstractAs a synthesis of poem, music, dance and stage designing, Chinese opera unfolds the panorama of traditional Chinese aesthetics before us, which undoubtedly becomes one of the most valuable Chinese cultural treasures. Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), a brilliant playwright in Ming Dynasty, is renowned for his Dream in Peony Pavilion, which tells one of the most charming and romantic stories in Chinese classical literature. Apart from the elegant language and far-reaching conceptions, Tang has dealt with the characters’ emotions in Dream in Peony Pavilion with great care and delicacy.This paper attempts to explore Dream in Peony Pavilion based on the theory of translation aesthetics. Generally speaking, translation aesthetics is an interdisciplinary subject of translation studies and aesthetics, which not only concerns about the elements of translation, but also pays a close attention on the reproduction of the beauty in translation. Thus, literary translation is an artistic recreation basing on the literary creation. In drama aesthetics, the beauty of drama is embodied through dance, sound, music and the inner emotion of the characters. Therefore, Professor Xu Yuanchong has put forward the famous Three Beauties principle in literary translation, including the beauty of sound, beauty of form, and beauty of meaning. The author of this paper believes that translation aesthetics offers a proper perspective in drama translation research. The thesis analyzes Xu Yuanchong and his son Xu Ming’s translation work Dream in Peony Pavilion with Xu’s translation theory as standard from the perspective of translation aesthetics — the reproduction of the beauty of image, emotion and language style in the translation work.Through the comparing research between the original work and translation, the author of this paper holds that Professor Xu Yuanchong and his son Xu Ming’s translation hassuccessfully reproduced the beauty of the source work of Dream in Peony Pavilion. T