Readers, reading and reception of translated fiction in Chinese novel encounters
By: Leo Tak-Hung Chan
Publisher: St. Jerome Pub.; St Jerome Publishing; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; Kinderhook, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781905763191
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Interactng with texts: the target reader. The reading of difference in translated fiction : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse; title: Textual hybridity and textural cohesion : reading D. H. Lawrence in Chinese, with special reference to The rainbow; title: Intertextuality and interpretation, or, how to read Wang Dahong's tradaptation of Dorian Gray; title: Histories of reception: the general reader. The elusiveness of the general reader and a history of mediated reception : translator, author, or reader?; title: Reader reception at the turn of the twenty-first century : the "popularity" of Ulysses and the new reader of the Harry Potter translations; title: Critical and descriptivist readings: the special reader. Source-based critique of translated fiction (I): the narratological approach; title: Source-based critique of translated fiction (II): from traditional to post-Babelian approaches; title: The describer-historian and comparative reading in practice and theory synchronic readings : regional styles; title: Conclusion.