Studies on Yan Fu’s Translation Thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance”
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.233How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- translation thoughts; Faithfulness; Expressivenes; Elegance
- Abstract
Since Yan Fu’s putting forward his translation thoughts in his translated book Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays one year ago, it have been a hot topic for ages. Each time when Chinese scholars try to evaluate one translated book, Yan Fu’s translation thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance” would be their first choice to act as a standard to judge whether it can be an ideal one. Even Howard Goldblatt, the most popular literary translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, even explained his translation thoughts with the help of “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance”. Can “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance” be as translation criterion? How about Yan Fu’s own understanding about his translation thoughts and whether he followed his translation thoughts to conduct his translation tasks or not? Besides, how do people today understand Yan Fu’s translation thoughts? In this thesis, the author first pointed out the source of Yan Fu’s translation thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance” and their related discussion. Later, modern interpretation of Yan Fu’s translation thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance” and their development as time went by were described. And at last, whether “Faithfulness, Expressiveness and Elegance” can be as Translation Criterion was discussed in great detail and the author also gave her own opinion about it.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xiaoping Tang PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Studies on Yan Fu’s Translation Thoughts “Faithfulness, Expressiveness, and Elegance” BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1047 EP - 1049 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.233 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.233 ID - Tang2019/07 ER -