A Study of Translation Methods Adopted in the Yangs’ Version of “Master Gao” from the Perspective of Manipulation Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Ruijing Qin ◽  
Chengfa Yu

Soon after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, foreign translation of Chinese culture was put on the agenda. Lu Xun’s short stories were selected as representative works and translated into English by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (hereinafter referred to as “the Yangs”) in the 1950s and 1960s under the special international and domestic environment, and they have played an important role in spreading Chinese culture to the world. Based on André Lefevere’s Manipulation Theory, especially its three elements, namely, poetics, ideology and patronage, this paper examines the translation methods adopted by the Yangs in their translation of Lu Xun’s short story “Master Gao”. Through example analysis, the article concludes that the Yangs mainly adopted literal translation under the influence of poetics, ideology and patronage in the then special social background. It is hoped that the research aims to provide a theoretical and practical reference for future translation and dissemination of Chinese literary works to the world.

Author(s):  
Sergey Nickolsky

The question of the Russian man – his past, present and future – is the central one in the philosophy of history. Unfortunately, at present this area of philosophy is not suffciently developed in Russia. Partly the reason for this situation is the lack of understanding by researchers of the role played by Russian classical literature and its philosophizing writers in historiosophy. The Hunting Sketches, a collection of short stories by I.S. Turgenev, is a work still undervalued, not fully considered not only in details but also in general meanings. And this is understandable because it is the frst systematic encyclopedia of Russian worldview, which is not envisaged by the literary genre. To a certain extent, Turgenev’s line is continued by I. Goncharov (the theme of the mind and heart), L. Tolstoy (the theme of the living and the dead, nature and society, the people and the lords), F. Dostoevsky (natural and rational rights), A. Chekhov (worthy and vulgar life). This article examines the philosophical nature of The Hunting Sketches, its structure and content. According to author’s opinion, stories can be divided into ten groups according to their dominant meanings. Thus, in The Hunting Sketches the main Russian types are depicted: “natural man,” rational, submissive, cunning, honest, sensitive, passionate, poetic, homeless, suffering, calmly accepting death, imbued with the immensity of the world. In the image and the comments of the wandering protagonist, Ivan Turgenev reveals his own philosophical credo, which he defnes as a moderate liberalism – freedom of thought and action, without prejudice to others.


2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-756
Author(s):  
Jon Adams ◽  
Edmund Ramsden

Nestled among E. M. Forster's careful studies of Edwardian social mores is a short story called “The Machine Stops.” Set many years in the future, it is a work of science fiction that imagines all humanity housed in giant high-density cities buried deep below a lifeless surface. With each citizen cocooned in an identical private chamber, all interaction is mediated through the workings of “the Machine,” a totalizing social system that controls every aspect of human life. Cultural variety has ceded to rigorous organization: everywhere is the same, everyone lives the same life. So hopelessly reliant is humanity upon the efficient operation of the Machine, that when the system begins to fail there is little the people can do, and so tightly ordered is the system that the failure spreads. At the story's conclusion, the collapse is total, and Forster's closing image offers a condemnation of the world they had built, and a hopeful glimpse of the world that might, in their absence, return: “The whole city was broken like a honeycomb. […] For a moment they saw the nations of the dead, and, before they joined them, scraps of the untainted sky” (2001: 123). In physically breaking apart the city, there is an extent to which Forster is literalizing the device of the broken society, but it is also the case that the infrastructure of the Machine is so inseparable from its social structure that the failure of one causes the failure of the other. The city has—in the vocabulary of present-day engineers—“failed badly.”


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Huiguan Ding ◽  
Asli Ogunc ◽  
Dale Funderburk ◽  
Shiyou Li ◽  
Zhebie Shi

For more than a decade, the People’s Republic of China has sought to expand the degree of internationalization of its official currency. In recent decades, China has become the world’s second largest economy, as well as the world’s largest trading nation, and its securities markets are among the largest in the world. Today, the RMB is among the top five as a world payments currency. One of the significant costs of achieving higher degrees of internationalization of a country’s currency is the complicating impact it has on the efficacy and effect of that country’s domestic monetary policy.  However, what is the nature and extent of that complicating impact? This paper employs an IS-LM model of an open economy as an analytical framework, embeds an RMB internationalization factor into that model. Specifically, with this model we examine the impact of RMB internationalization on the effects of China’s monetary policy. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Fajrul Falah

This study aims to express the trust and hegemony in the "Broker" short story by Sri Lima R.N. This research is motivated by the idea that language in fiction or short stories is meaningful and indicated not to be neutral.  The language in the short story, became the media for sending message content to the author as a reflection of the social community referred to. The approach used in this study is the sociology of literature, specific to the study of Gramsci hegemony. The research method used is descriptive qualitative.  Research data obtained from text, words, phrases, sentences, contained in short stories related to trust and hegemony. The research data is then described and expressed based on the approach used. The results of the study show that there was a change in the characteristics of Handoko's character as a broker who was initially good, become opportunist. Brokerage profession is used as a tool to hegemony the public to get profits. Community trust in brokers and people who are considered smart also grow. However, Handoko's figure was eventually protested by people who had used their services and failed. Handoko or brokers run away from the protests and demands of the people.


2020 ◽  
pp. 250-272
Author(s):  
Tessa Thorniley

John Lehmann’s The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) is considered one of the finest literary periodicals of World War Two. The journal was committed to publishing writing about all aspects of wartime life, from the front lines to daily civilian struggles, by writers from around the world. It had an engaged readership and a high circulation. This chapter specifically considers Lehmann’s contribution to the wartime heyday for the short story form, through the example of The Penguin New Writing. By examining Lehmann’s editorial approach this chapter reveals the ways he actively engaged with his contributors, teasing and coaxing short stories out of them and contrasts this with the editorial style of Cyril Connolly at rival Horizon magazine. Stories by, and Lehmann’s interactions with, established writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green and Rosamond Lehmann, the emerging writer William Sansom and working-class writers B.L Coombs and Jim Phelan, are the main focus of this chapter. The international outlook of the journal, which promoted satire from China alongside short, mocking works by Graham Greene, is also evaluated as an often overlooked aspect of Lehmann’s venture. Through the short stories and Lehmann’s editorials, this chapter traces how Lehmann sought to shape literature and to elevate the short story form. The chapter concludes by considering how the decline of the short story form in Britain from the 1950s onwards was closely linked to the demise of the magazines which had most actively supported it.


LITERA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suminto A. Sayuti ◽  
Else Liliani ◽  
Kusmarwanti Kusmarwanti

AbstrakKampus berfungsi tidak hanya sebagai jembatan untuk mencapai pendidikan tinggi, namun juga wahana untuk mengembangkan kompetensi individu, termasuk dalam bidang sastra. Sastrawan-sastrawan muda atau yang bertumbuh ketika menempuh pendidikan di perguruan tinggi atau kampus ini biasa disebut sastrawan kampus. Ppenelitian ini bertujuan mengidentifikasikan latar belakang sosial, ideologi, profesionalisme kepengarangan, dan posisi sosilal  sastrawan kampus FBS UNY khasanah sastra Indonesia. Penelitian  ini menggunakan pendekatan fenomenologis dengan fokus penelitian pada sastrawan kampus yang aktif menulis prosa (novel dan cerpen) di Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni UNY. Hasil penelitian sebagai berikut. Pertama, sastrawan kampus Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta sebagian besar berasal dari suku Jawa. Sastrawan kampus lebih banyak didominasi lelaki.  Umumnya, sastrawan kampus memiliki latar belakang keluarga yang berkorelasi dengan dunia pendidikan. Kedua, sastrawan kampus umumnya lebih memilih memperhatikan hal-hal yang dianggap sering diabaikan dalam kehidupan untuk ditulis dalam karya mereka. Idealisme mengenai nilai-nilai otentik yang berbenturan dengan nilai pragmatisme masyarakat menjadi energi besar yang menggerakkan sastrawan-sastrawan kampus untuk menulis. Ketiga, sastrawan-sastrawan kampus umumnya tidak menjadikan menulis sebagai profesi utama mereka. Menulis adalah kerja sampingan. Sastrawan kampus tidak bergantung pada patronase tertentu.  Keempat, beberapa sastrawan kampus memiliki posisi yang cukup penting dalam sastra Indonesia. Posisi ini dipengaruhi oleh produktivitas karya, promosi dan publikasi, serta jejaring yang dimiliki. Semakin banyak karya yang dihasilkan dan dipublikasikan secara massif di berbagai media, maka penulis karya tersebut akan semakin dikenal oleh masyarakat.Kata kunci: profil, sastrawan kampus, sosiologi pengarang   Abstract               The aims of this study are: (1) to identify the social background of campus writers, (2) to explain the social ideology of campus writer, (3) to explain the professionalism of campus writer, and (4) to map the social position of FBS UNY campus writers in Indonesian literature. This research is a fenomenological qualitative research with a focus of research on campus writers who are active in writing prose (novels and short stories) in the Faculty of Language and Arts of UNY, using the author's sociology approach. The research subjects were selected purposively, namely Herlinatiens, Kedung Darma Romansha, Eko Triono, Muhammad Qadhafi, and Kun Anindito. Data collection techniques used in interviews, searches and studies of campus literary works, as well as news searches in various media. The validity used is expertjudgment, while the reliability of the data is triangulation between researchers and sources. The results of the study show: (1) most of the Yogyakarta State University campus writers are from Javanese. Campus writers are dominated by men. Generally, campus writers have a family background that correlates with the world of education, except Kedung Dharma. (2) Campus writers generally prefer to pay attention to things that are considered often ignored in life to be written in their work. Idealism about authentic values that collide with the pragmatism of the community becomes a great energy that motivates campus writers to write. (3) Campus writers generally do not make writing their main profession. Writing is a side job. Campus writers do not depend on certain patronage. (5) Some campus writers have quite important positions in Indonesian literature. This position is influenced by the productivity of works, promotions and publications, and the networks that are owned. The more massive work produced and published in various media, the writer of the work will be increasingly known by the public.Keywords: profile, campus writer, author’s sociology approach


Author(s):  
Wahyu S. Hadjim ◽  
Novriyanto Napu

This research was conducted to find out the translation methods applied by the translator in translating figurative language in O. Henry’s short stories. This descriptive analysis research took the data from nine short stories as the research documents. There were 19 data taken from those nine short stories. The data were collected by analysis of document. Based on the research findings, from nine short stories, seven simile, three metaphor, three hyperbole were literal translation, two simile were semantic translation, two hyperbole were communicative translation, one hyperbole was idiomatic translation, and one simile was translated free translation. In conclusion, the findings of the study indicated that the result of literal translation was significantly higher than others translation methods. The result is expected to be helpful to improve students’ and readers references of translation method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 685-692
Author(s):  
Siti Ayu Hardiyanti

This study aims to explore the language style of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Old Man”. This research describes the stylistic used in the short story. Ernest Hemingway is one of the famous writers of prose and short story. Many people recognize his special works for short stories because Ernest Hemingway has a characteristic that makes him one of the best short story writers in Europe from a young age. My Old Man is the first work known for the lot use of stylistic styles that distinguish this story from Hemingway’s other works. The researcher limits the stylistic only to explore linguistics such as pragmatics and semantics. In addition, the researcher explains the features of stylistic devices which are on simile, poetry, and calque. This study combines 2 methods of analysis, namely textual and stylistic analysis. The results illustrated how Hemingway used stylistic to describe a child as the narrator, where he told in detail the dark experiences of his father in the world of horse racing in a coherent manner. Hemingway combined his imagination with processing language styles in the story. 


Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Awais Qarni

Kaleem Khariji is a prominent figure of short stories in contemporary Urdu literature. He has evaded from the symbolical style and technique, which is a literary fashion amongst the contemporary Urdu short stories writers. The formation of his short stories is totally different from classical short story writers as well. He does not use symbols, but his characters are capable of symbolical depth. Ghatiya Aadmi—a book comprised of his short stories—has a philosophical and social background. The themes and subject matter of the stories in this book are derived from the social and political circumstances of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The researcher has critically analyzed the characters and subject matter in the short stories of Ghatiya Aadmi.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alda Correia

The representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context. Making the effort to understand how space and landscape influence short stories and their structure, and are represented in them, can help us to make sense of the role of this formerly underestimated subgenre, its social and cultural connections and dissonances, its relation to storytelling and popular narratives, and its alleged low importance. How does the short story genre relate to regional and landscape literature? Can we see it as humble fiction and, in this case, how does the humbleness of this subgenre play a part in the growth of the modernist short story? The oral, mythic and fantastic sources of the short story, together with the travel memoir tradition that brought the love for landscape description and the interest in the narration of brief and easily publishable episodes of local life, helped to consolidate a connection between the short story form and regional literature. ‘Humbleness’ is used here in association with the absence of complexity, plainness, simplicity of approach to a complex reality, straightforwardness. From this perspective, aesthetic value was usually absent from regionalist fiction as its only aim was to render the local truth faithfully. However, this ‘aesthetic humbleness’, which should not be used as a generalization, has been increasingly questioned in regard to modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism and also when we consider specific works.


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