Literary Theory and Oral translation.pptVIP

Literary Theory and Oral translation An Introduction to Structuralism and Postmodernism Introduction of the history of literary theories 1. Literary theory in Classical times: rhetorical criticism, Plato, Aristotle 古典时代的文学理论：修辞批评学，柏拉图，亚里士多德 2. The rise and fall of Neoclassicism新古典主义 3. Romantic Literary Theory(Romantism)浪漫主义 4. Naturalism, symbolism and Modernism自然主义，象征主义，现代主义 5. Phenomenological criticism in France and Germany现象批评学 Terms: Structuralism: Saussure, signified, signifier 结构主义：索绪尔，所指，能指 Postmodernism: poststructuralism 后现代主义，后结构主义 Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze 鲍德里亚，德里达，德路咨 Jean Baudrillard: The majority of silence The ecstacy of communication The end of social 口译要求： 1. 对专业名词的熟练 2. 准确 3. 完整 French Structuralism The Structuralism of the 1950s and 1960s had its centre in Paris. The movement rose to prominence as a s reaction against Sartre’s version of Existentialism, which had also had its centre in Paris. For a short period at least, enormous energy and excitement were generated by this new French phase of Structuralism. Structuralist literary theory was influenced by an outside force : a rising force of the social or human sciences. The logic of modernism encouraged Modernist-oriented critics to keep the social sciences at a distance. But in the 1950s and 1960s, Modernism was no longer a powerful immediate influence, while Postmodernism had not yet achieved recognition as a major new development. At this juncture, the Structural Linguistics of Saussure and the Structural Anthropology of Levi-Strauss were able to strike a chord. An entirely new cast of mind was thus introduced into literary theory. At the same time, the conjunction of literary theory and the social sciences required a significant shift on the part of the latter. The social sciences could make little contribution to literary theory so long as they based themselves upon empiricist ideals, involving the statistical analysis of vast quantities of observational data. Structuralism offered a