Research on the Translatability of the Style of Lin Yutang’s The Gay Genius
Abstract
This paper takes Lin Yutang’s The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo as the research object. Guided by Liu Miqing’s style translation, translation aesthetics, and translation reception, it takes Zhang Zhenyu’s translation in 2017 as an example and analyzes the level of style reproduction in the translation compared with the source text, so as to explore the translatability of the style of The Gay Genius. The conclusion is that the style of The Gay Genius is highly translatable. With the improvement of the translator's language conversion skills and cultural coordination ability and the development of modern translation theories, its translation can be more perfect. In addition, this paper raises and discusses the issues related to translatability. Based on existing research, it further explains the translatability limits of the original work and the relationship between the translator’s language style and the work’s translatability.
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