The poetics of recontextualization : intertextuality in a Chinese adaptive transaltion of "The picture of Dorian Gray"
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Comparative Literature Studies
Publication Date
12-1-2004
Volume
41
Issue
4
First Page
464
Last Page
481
Abstract
This article presents information on the poetics of recontexualization. The reader of a translation is most likely to be aided by his/her knowledge of, on the one hand, the source-system in which the text has its root, and on the other, the target system into which it is introduced. These two systems together provide virtually all the parameters needed for understanding to take place. The reader's degree of acquaintance with the two systems will inevitably determine the facility with which s/he interprets the translated text, as well as the possibility of his/her coming to more reliable - if not more correct - interpretations.
Print ISSN
00104132
E-ISSN
15284212
Publisher Statement
Copyright © London School of Economics and Political Science 2007
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Chan, L. T.-H. (2004). The poetics of recontextualization: Intertextuality in a Chinese adaptive transaltion of "The picture of Dorian Gray". Comparative Literature Studies, 41(4), 464-481.