A Stylistic-Informed English-Chinese Translation Of Fiction

As international cultural exchange deepens, quality literary translation plays a significant role in the communication between different cultures and in the enhancement of translators’ capability in the aforesaid field. In literary translation, the translator appropriately and creatively reproduces the artistic and thematic effect of the original text by employing alternative expressions in the target language which are correspondent to the style of the original text. It is deemed as the goal of translation, criteria of evaluation, and even an essential feature of quality translation work to reproduce the original style in the target language. In the translation of literary work, the aesthetic effect of the original text is reproduced by conveying its content and maintaining its literariness simultaneously. Hence this article boasts valuable meaning in its study of translation practice and theoretical analysis.The author of this thesis conducted the translation of part of Mansfield Park under the guideline of stylistics, and discussed the feasibility and guiding role of stylistics in literature translation. The paper, written in the form of translation report, in the first chapter briefly introduced the translation task, and then in the second chapter depicted the translation process, and then laid the theoretical foundation of literature stylistics, and in the fourth chapter explored the author’s choices of words in the pursuit of its thematic and aesthetic effect and made a stylistic analysis of the translation practice from the perspective of lexical, syntactical, textual, rhetorical and narrative levels, combining stylistic concepts such as "prominence" and "deviation", and lastly made a conclusion. This thesis might contribute to the study of literary fiction translation.