中詩英譯與接受現象

The Reception and Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in English

研究翻譯作品，必得研究其在譯入環境中的接受反應。透過翻譯，外國文學在目的系統中廣宣流布。龐德的〈河商之妻〉（譯寫自李白的〈長干行〉）即一代表實例，至今仍被納入英美文學選集中。藉由中詩英譯的歷時調查，本文側重譯作與譯入文境間的互動，審視前者與後者的社會文化間的關係。本文強調翻譯行為的發生與接受一方的時代背景相互作用。譯作不會憑空出現，亦不會在目的環境中形成封閉的狀態，而是與文學、文化、社會與政治等活動彼此交流、影響。

Translation and reception are inseparable. Translation helps disseminate foreign literature in the target system. An evident example is Ezra Pound's translation based on the 8th-century Chinese poet Li Bo's 'The River-Merchant's Wife,' which has been anthologised in Anglophone literature. Through a diachronic survey of the translation of classical Chinese poetry in English, the current paper places emphasis on the interaction between the translation and the target socio-cultural context. It attempts to stress that translation occurs in a context - a translated work is not autonomous and isolated from the literary, cultural, social, and political activities of the receiving end.