The Aesthetic Representation Of The Artistic Ideorealm Of Classical Chinese Poetry In English From Reception Aesthetics Perspective

Artistic ideorealm, an important and unique category in the classical Chinese poetics, is considered as the soul of the classical Chinese poetry. However, most discussions on artistic ideorealm transference are experience-based and inadequate. Aesthetics is an important approach to assessing the values of both literature and its translations. Without beauty, poetry could not find its dependence for existence. This thesis seeks to account for the aesthetic representation of the artistic ideorealm of classical Chinese poetry in English from the perspective of Reception Aesthetics.Reception Aesthetics assumes that openness and indeterminacy are the nature of all literary texts .The reader is the constructor of the meaning in the literary work and one of the parts forming the literary work itself. The reader always carries the dialogue with the author embedded within the text's structure via the text. Creative activities and reception activities constitute the indispensable two-dimensional activities in the literature communication, among which the author, the text and the reader become the essential factors. The meaning of the text generates from the conversation between the reader and the author with the text as a media. Guided by Reception Aesthetics, literary translation is an ever-going two-way communicative process carrying out the dialogue between the text and its readers, between its author and readers.The goal of the conversation is to relive the intention of the author and text, so as to satisfy the reader's horizon of expectations and help him to get the resonance with the author.Artistic ideorealm consists in the totality of the artistic imagery characterized by a fusion of feelings with scenes plus the imagined images it triggers. The essence of ideorealm creation lies not simply in a fusion of feelings with scenes, but more in creating "images beyond images", which can provide readers with a vast imaginary sphere. Therefore, artistic ideorealm is actually completed by both the author and the reader. The reader's subjectivity is fully manifested in the process of ideorealm...