A Reception Aesthetics Approach to Translator's Subjectivity——A Case Study of Three Chinese Versions of Sonnet 116

Shakespeare's sonnets,the brightest pearls of the world literature,have aroused great interest of scholars in China.Reception Aesthetics emphasizes the in literature works and subjectivity in readers' reading.Therefore,the translator in the translation process should concretize spots of indeterminacy of literature works,taking the horizon of expectations of the target language readers into consideration,to achieve the optimal reception of the translated text.From the perspective of Reception Aesthetics,this paper attempts to explore the translator's subjectivity based on the comparative analysis of theme,content,form and style in the three Chinese versions of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.