Study on the Translation of Wilde’s Poetry by Chinese Female Translator Zhang Jinfen
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Female Translator; Jinfen Zhang; Oscar Wilde; Chinese Translation of English Poetry.Abstract
Oscar Wilde is one of the representative figures of aestheticism, and his poems were translated into China in the early 20th century. As a progressive female poet and translator of that time, Zhang Jinfen was one of the first translators to translate Wilde's poetry into China. This paper will analyze the selection and translation process of Zhang Jinfen’s translations of Wilde’s poetry, and compare other contemporaneous and modern translations to discover the unique features of Zhang's translations. Meanwhile, this paper will also study the impact of Zhang’s translations on herself as an individual and on the times.
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