庞德与鲁迅“非通顺”翻译之比较.pdfVIP

A Comparative Study of Pound’s and Lu Xun’s Unfluent Translation By Xia Tian Supervisor: Prof. Cheng Xianfu Thesis Presented to Graduate School, Anhui Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts English Department, College of Foreign Languages, ANU April, 2003 －1－ Abstract The present thesis makes a comparative study of Ezra Pound’s and Lu Xun’s unfluent translation. Unfluent translation eschews a fluent strategy in order to reproduce in the translation whatever features of the foreign text abuse or resist dominant cultural values in the source language (Vuneti1995: 24). Both Ezra Pound and Lu Xun are among the important translators who have employed unfluent strategy in their translating practice. The comparison between their unfluent translation will focus on three aspects — the causes of their unfluent translation, the specific methods used in their unfluent translation and the influence of their unfluent translation. By employing unfluent translating strategy, both Pound and Lu Xun sought to free the reader of translation, as well as the translator, from the cultural constraints that ordinarily govern their reading and writing. Pound had hoped to free the readers and translators from the constraints of stiff and decadent language style of Victorian poems. Lu Xun wanted to set the readers free from the imprecise and sloppy Chinese at his time. In their unfluent translation, Pound and Lu Xun used similar translating methods. They tried to preserve the form or language features of the