Between the Lines of Translated Works ——An Intertextual View of Translation Study

This paper is intended to study translation from the viewpoint of 搃ntertextuality? The author believes that translation is a type of transforming activity intertextualized with language, text, culture, and thinking. Any translated text is a tissue in an immense network of complex, where the significance of each text unfolds through referring to each other. The nature of translation makes it possible and necessary to deem 搃ntertextuality?a prominent perspective in translation studies. In this paper the interrelation between translation and intertextuality is perceived from the history of translation practice as well as the analysis of diachronic and synchronic models. The essay is composed in the hope of rendering a new dimension to translation studies.