摘要
《魔戒》是一部气势恢宏的奇幻小说，由牛津大学盎格鲁撒克逊语教授、语言学家J.R.R.托尔金所著。当前，国内绝大多数对于《魔戒》的探讨都是基于文学的角度讨论和略论托尔金的原作，很少有人关注这部作品的翻译情况，英语毕业论文，更别提仔细探讨该如何翻译贯穿故事的大量优美诗歌了。《魔戒》中包含了风格各异，长短不一的丰富诗歌，除了单纯的从文学诗歌的角度欣赏它们，读者还可以从中获取对于故事背景和各个种族特征及历史的丰富信息。因而，英语论文网站，诗歌的翻译情况对读者全面理解整个故事至关重要。
文章分为四部分：第一部分对《魔戒》展开简要介绍，包括故事内容，地位作用以及现有中译本的基本信息。第二部分介绍了接受美学的两个核心概念——空白和期待视野，并说明这两个概念在文学翻译策略上的启示。第三部分首先对《魔戒》中的诗歌进行了整体介绍，重点略论不同种族的特征及其反映到它们诗歌上的特点，接着选取了具有代表性的三首诗歌，在前文所介绍的接受美学基础上对大陆译林出版社和台湾学者朱学恒的诗歌译本进行略论比较。译林版将其读者群定位为普通青少年，推测读者期待视野为童话风格，因而在翻译上更注重诗歌的韵律美和易读性，诗歌风格的变化不明显。朱学恒版将其读者群定位为奇幻文学爱好者，推测读者期待视野为严肃的史诗风格，在翻译时更注重诗歌内容的准确性和整体风格的表现。第四部分对全文进行归纳总结，在前文的基础上总结译林版和朱版翻译的优缺点并对略论此类诗歌提出三点评判标准。
关键词： 诗歌翻译，接受美学，读者期待视野，空白，《魔戒》
Abstract
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, an epic fantasy, was written by J.R.R.Tolkien, linguist and Professor of philology and Anglo-Saxon language of Oxford. At present, most studies on The Lord of the Rings stands at the angle of literature, discussing and analyzing Tolkien and the original work. Seldom people see from the side of translation, let alone the translation of the wonderful poems throughout the story. There are various poems in the trilogy, apart from appreciating them on linguistics, readers also get plenty of information about the background and characteristics for each race. Thus, the quality of translations is very important for readers to fully understand the story.
This thesis includes four parts. In the first part, the author gives the brief introduction of The Lord of the Rings, including the story content, status, influence and the information of the current translations. In the second part, the thesis talks about two core conceptions of Reception Aesthetic theory- gap and horizon of expectation, then illustrates the enlightenment of Reception Aesthetics on literary translation. In the third part, the thesis starts by talking about the various kinds of poems in the trilogy, which pays attention to the features of different races as well as their poems. Then the thesis selects three typical poems doing analysis and evaluation on the two translations (Yilin Press’s version and Taiwanese scholar Zhu Xueheng’s version) bases on Reception Aesthetics theory. Yilin Press sets the readership ordinary teenagers and infers that their horizon of expectation is the style of children’s book. Thus, Yilin Press focuses on poems’ readability and rhythmic beauty, and there is little transformation on the overall style. Zhu Xueheng sets the readership fans of fantasy literature and infers that their horizon of expectation is seriously epic style. Thus, Zhu’s translation pays more attention to the accuracy of content and the overall style which can express different races’ features. In the fourth part, the author makes a summary of the whole thesis. The
Advantages and disadvantages of Yilin’s and Zhu’s versions are concluded respectively. The author also raises three analysis aspects for evaluating the poems of same type.
Key words: poem translation, reception aesthetics, horizon of expectation, gap, The Lord of the Rings |
