A Study Of Words Conversion Of Liu Shicong’s English Translation Texts Of Modern Lyric Prose

Since ancient times. Aesthetics and translation have close relationship with each other. After the middle of the20th Century, translation aesthetics in modern China is going into blooming. Both ancient scholars and modern translators push the development of the history of Chinese translation aesthetics. Fu Lei advances that "gave more weight to likeness in spirit, than to that in form", Qian Zhongshu sets forth the criteria of transfiguration and Liu shicong elaborates the theory of artistic, flavor in literary translation based on Jin Yuelin’s "Flavor". And this theory is significant in both theory and prose practice.Prose is an important literary genre which has a history of several thousand years. However, the research on the translation of modern Chinese prose is far from enough. To produce the correspondent artistic effect in prose translation is important to the translation aesthetic subject. This thesis will analyze the selected modern lyric prose translated by professor Liu based on his own theory of "artistic flavor" in literary translation. Meanwhile, this thesis attempts to analyze the realization of Liu Shicong’s translation idea in some pieces of modern lyric prose translated by Liu Shicong from a new perspective of words conversion. And this thesis includes introduction, body and conclusion. Introduction contains research background, research purpose, research methods and significance and the structure of this thesis. The body of this thesis includes four chapters. Chapter I is literature review, which introduces the studies of translation aesthetic in both China and West and the studies of the "artistic flavor" in literary translation in China. Chapter II introduces the definition and features in prose and lyric prose. Chapter III introduces Liu Shicong’s lifetime and his translation works. Meanwhile this chapter analyzes the theory of "artistic flavor" in literary translation. Chapter IV is the main part of this thesis, which analyzes the selected modern lyric prose from perspective of word conversion, based on the theory of "artistic flavor" in literary translation. And in the conclusion, this thesis summarizes strengths and limitations and makes suggestion for further study.