The Reception and Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in English

中詩英譯與接受現象

廖佳慧(Chia-Hui Liao)

《國立彰化師範大學文學院學報》 6期 (2012/09) Pp. 47-63

https://doi.org/10.29602/XLZY.201209.0004

摘要

研究翻譯作品，必得研究其在譯入環境中的接受反應。透過翻譯，外國文學在目的系統中廣宣流布。龐德的〈河商之妻〉(譯寫自李白的〈長干行〉)即一代表實例，至今仍被納入英美文學選集中。藉由中詩英譯的歷時調查，本文側重譯作與譯入文境間的互動，審視前者與後者的社會文化間的關係。本文強調翻譯行為的發生與接受一方的時代背景相互作用。譯作不會憑空出現，亦不會在目的環境中形成封閉的狀態，而是與文學、文化、社會與政治等活動彼此交流、影響。

關鍵字

詩詞翻譯 ； 文境 ； 接受反應 ； 目的/譯入系統 ； 出版現象

並列摘要

Translation and reception are inseparable. Translation helps disseminate foreign literature in the target system. An evident example is Ezra Pound's translation based on the 8th-century Chinese poet Li Bo's ”The River-Merchant's Wife,” which has been anthologised in Anglophone literature. Through a diachronic survey of the translation of classical Chinese poetry in English, the current paper places emphasis on the interaction between the translation and the target socio-cultural context. It attempts to stress that translation occurs in a context-a translated work is not autonomous and isolated from the literary, cultural, social, and political activities of the receiving end.

並列關鍵字

poetry translation ； context ； reception ； target system ； publishing phenomenon