Comparative Study Of The Chinese Versions Of "Dead Souls" From The Perspective Of Accepting Aesthetics

Acceptance aesthetics is also called acceptance theory.The theory is that the author should fully consider the reader's "expectation horizon" before reading because his reading reaction is a criterion for judging the merits of a literary work.Acceptance aesthetics emphasizes the reader's subjective initiative and the translator as a special reader plays a subjective role in connecting the original text with the target language.Therefore different translations of the same work can translate different aesthetic effects.From the perspective of reception aesthetics,it is a unique perspective of the field of translation theory to evaluate the role of different translators in the same works.It has an instructive effect on the study of translation theory and the creation of literary translation.Gogol's masterpiece Dead Soul is the cornerstone of the development of Russian critical realism literature,and it is also the culmination of the development of realism by Gogol.Belinsky highly praised it as "an epoch-making great book on the Russian literary world",a book that was "above all past and present works of Russian literature," and "a national and highly artistic work." Visible,the importance of its research.In China,the first Chinese translation of Dead Souls was translated by Lu Xun in 1935.Since then,Dead Souls has been translated and published by more than a dozen different translators.This article focuses on the analysis of potential readers in the aesthetics,the translator's subjectivity and creativity and other concepts,aiming to explore the reception aesthetic theory that can guide literary translation strategies.On this basis,by comparing the four Chinese translations of "Deathling",from the perspective of different translators' visual thresholds and language styles,the expectation horizon and acceptability of target readers,translation translation of cultural information,and aesthetic reproduction of translation.Each aspect comprehensively analyzes relevant examples,explores the rules of translation activities of the four translators,and proposes some new insights to provide references and lessons for literary translation practice.