Keywords
Translation criticism
Translation
Submitted : 2025-06-03
Accepted : 2025-06-18
Published : 2025-07-03
Abstract
To promote the global dissemination of Chinese culture, the translation of Chinese classic literature has garnered widespread attention in the translation field. Literary translation criticism plays an essential role in the development of translation endeavors. This paper will analyze three versions of English translations of Shen Congwen’s novella Border Town using Reiss’s translation criticism model and summarize their performance in terms of formal equivalence and aesthetic effect, linguistic components, and extra-linguistic components.
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