改写理论视角下的《阿q正传》蓝诗玲英译本分析-an analysis of lanshilings english translation of the true story of ah q from the perspective of rewriting theory.docxVIP

AbstractThe Rewriting theory situates the translation in a macroscopical political, economic, and cultural environment of the target culture which subverts the traditional translation criterion of “fidelity” by stressing that the translating can be significantly affected by ideology, poetics, and patronage, against which the translators can either challenge and take their explicit initiatives, or they can also choose to conform to. In translating, the translator can delete, add, adapt or preserve the message and form of the source text, which has to be realized by playing their implicit initiatives.Based on the Rewriting theory, this thesis has taken the latest English version The Real Story of Ah-Q translated by British Sinologist Julia Lovell and published by Penguin Group which has labeled it as Penguin Classics. Lovell aims at probing into the impact of the dominant ideology and poetics of target culture, the personal ideology and poetics of the translation of translator and the patronage on translation. The source novel is an allegory novel with typical characters, narrative tone of supercilious irony, and abundant cultural reference designed to advance the novel’s therapeutic aspiration. And the translation does not require the simple fidelity at linguistic level but involves with cultural and other macroscopical factors.In the 21st century, cultural globalization is prevailing, and the pursuit of universalvalues of freedom, democracy and human rights in England brought the novel available to Western readers. However, the manipulation in The Real Story of Ah-Q in characterization, narrative mode, culture-specific items and the rhetoric as parody largely owes to the marginal status of Chinese literature in the Western culture, the requirement of interesting and readable works by Penguin Group as the commercial publishing house, and with the translator’s individual ideology as young Sinologist with limited Chinese culture background, and the “faithful recreation