A Contractive Research On Two Versions Of Lady Chatterley’s Lover From The Perspective Of Rewriting Theory

Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is a masterpiece in modern times, but was treated as a banned book at that time among many countries, furthermore, the translation in China was also though a hard time, even though there have been several versions in China so far. The most well-known two are Rao Shuyi’s and Zhao Susu’s, whose translation strategies are different from each other, based on Andre Lefevere’s Theory of Rewriting. This thesis aims at exploring the different translation strategies by two Chinese translators, Rao Shuyi and Zhao Susu, dealing with the erotic descriptions in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, through a comparative analysis with theory of rewriting in the cultural manipulation. The author draw the final conclusion that it is the ideology, patronage and poetics that play the key role in the choice of translation strategies, especially through the culture manipulation. By analyzing the case study, the author obtains a new knowledge of literary translation, since translation strategies determined by the effect of precise domination of the ideology patronage and poetics, it is futile to condemn "unfaithfulness"and to advocate"faithfulness", Consequently, literary translation criticism should not be estimated to make value judgment on the linguistic level., taking into account of the cultural and social context of translation must be from an ideological and poetic perspective, according to Lefevere’s Theory of Rewriting in cultural manipulation,those are helpful for us to access to the true results in justice and objective way, and get better understanding of many translation strategies especially the omission and desalination.