Wei Jin
Abstract
The translator is both the active reader and the creative reproducer of the source text. This paper, through an analysis of the principal role the translator plays in the actual process of literary translation, shows that the subjectivity of the translator is inevitable and thus acceptable if the original intention is not treason but loyalty.
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The translator is both the active reader and the creative reproducer of the source text. This paper, through an analysis of the principal role the translator plays in the actual process of literary translation, shows that the subjectivity of the translator is inevitable and thus acceptable if the original intention is not treason but loyalty.
Key concepts: Subjectivity, Principal (computer security), Linguistics, Loyalty, Literary translation, Translation (biology), Process (computing), Translation studies