Sublimation Theoretic Approach to Xu Yuanchong’s Translation of Images in Li Bai’s Lyric Poetry

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10.2991/sser-18.2018.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Imagery translation; Li Bai’s lyric poetry; Xu yuanchong’s translation; Sublimation theory

Abstract

This paper aims to study Xu Yuanchong’s translation of the imagery in Li Bai’s lyric poetry in light of Qian Zhongshu’s Sublimation Theory. It is found out through this research that the basic ideas of Qian’s Sublimation Theory, namely, “enticement”, “avoidance of errors/misinterpretation” and “pursuit of sublimity” have been perfectly embodied in Xu Yuanchong’s translation of the imagery in Li Bai’s lyric poetry. With his translation, Xu Yuanchong successfully conveys the artistic beauty of Li Bai’s poetry to the readers and attains the goal of “enticement” by skillfully reproducing the beauties of sound, sense and form of the imagery in the original poetry. Xu’s translation successfully avoids errors/misinterpretations in comprehending the rhetoric and emotions of the original poetry and conveying the word meaning and cultural background information. Xu Yuanchong’s image translation realizes the object of “sublimation” by reproducing the semantic and stylistic effects of the images in Li Bai’s lyric poetry as perfectly as possible.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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