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A Study on Howard Goldblatt’s Rewriting of Mo Yan’s Strange Encounter
YE Jing
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2019.09.005
Wenzheng College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, China
Since Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize, Howard Goldblatt, the translator of Mo Yan’s works, has caught attention worldwide. The academic circle regards Goldblatt’s translations as rewritings of the original works, but how? This essay, by the example of Mo Yan’s short-short Strange Encounter, analyzes how Goldblatt rewrites under the determining factors of ideology, poetics, and patronage, and puts forward two principles a translator should observe from the narrow sense: A good command of the original text and a good command of the target language and culture.
rewriting, Goldblatt, Mo Yan, Lefevere, Strange Encounter
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