Receptive Aesthetics and the Translator's Literary Creativity

Receptive aesthetics has drawn attention of literary critics to the reader, understanding again the subjective role of the reader in the re-realization of literary value, and has provided a new perspective for translation study. From the perspective of reception, the translator just translates the text in his mind, which is the result of the fusion of both the translator's horizon and the text's. The concretization of the indeterminacy involved in the text is the source of the translator's creativity. On the other hand, the translator, different from general readers for his duty to express the text in another language, is influenced in re-expressing the text by his implied reader of the target language. At this point, the conversion of artistic images into target lingual codes means creative manipulation of the target language expressions.