Signs Taken for Wonders: The Vanity of Human Wishes and the Production of a "Relevant" Translation

詮釋奉為神蹟：《翼求終成空》與製作「恰當」翻譯的章法

Hueikeng Chang(張惠鍞)

《NTU Studies in Language and Literature》 14期 (2005/09) Pp. 55-79

摘要

The essay proposes a reading of TVHW in formal terms, by situating the poem in the historical context, in which translation of Classical texts into the English tongue was generally undertaken on a strong ideological position. The proposed formal analysis adopts Derrida's concept that translation operates as a position-marked transformation of the symbolic machine of the original, and the task of transformation is conducted usually in terms of the logic of supplementarity. The analysis is meant to recommend a re-interpretation of the poem in light of the strategic play it puts on in order to arrive at a "modern" textual and cultural translation of its Latin original.

關鍵字

Samuel Johnson ； The Vanity of Human Wishes ； Juvenal ； imitation ； familiarization project ； John Dryden ； Jacques Derrida ； logic of supplementarity ； relevant translations ； structure of exemplarity ； moral discourse

並列摘要

本文重新檢閱姜生的模仿詩《翼求終成空》，首先用以廓清該詩與英國十八世紀翻譯文化的歷史關連，其次藉分析該詩與裘文諾之第十首諷刺詩的間文網絡，說明文學翻譯過程，翻譯者如何作介入操作，製作「恰當」譯本。

並列關鍵字

善謀．姜生 ； 《翼求終成空》 ； 裘文諾 ； 模仿詩 ； 同化外來文化 ； 德萊登 ； 德希達 ； 置換邏輯 ； 恰當之翻譯 ； 例釋規格 ； 道德論述