Aesthetic Representation in Dragonfly Eyes from the Perspective of Translation Aesthetics

Jiayu  Zheng

doi:10.54691/yaz6qn81

Authors

Jiayu Zheng

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/yaz6qn81

Keywords:

Dragonfly Eyes; translation of children’s literature; translation aesthetics; aesthetic representation.

Abstract

Children’s literature carries abundant aesthetic information to convey the perception of beauty to children. In the translation of children’s literature, special attention should be paid to the aesthetic representation of the source text to avoid the loss of beauty. Adopting the text analysis method, this paper takes the Chinese and English versions of Cao Wenxuan’s children’s literary work Dragonfly Eyes as the corpus, generalizes the aesthetic information sets from the perspective of Liu Miqing’s translation aesthetics, and analyzes how the translator achieves aesthetic representation. Through a comparative analysis, it is found that on the basis of faithfulness to the source text, the translator imitated and rewrote the original information, basically preserving the aesthetic information contained therein.

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