A Comparative Study of the Preface of Two Chinese Versions of Jane Eyre
Shudan Deng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/pmcs.v5i3.1893
Keywords: Translator’s Gender; Translator’ s Subjectivity; Preface; Jane Eyre
Abstract
The world-wide popularity of Jane Eyre has generated great interest and enthusiasm in many translators, resulting in as many as 20 Chinese versions. Jane Eyre’ s diff erent Chinese versions and strong feminism provide rich materials for studies on translator’ s subjectivity. Translator’ s preface reveals how well translator understand writer’ s writing purpose. This essay mainly compares translator’s prefaces of Zhu’ s and Wu’s translation of Jane Eyre, aimed at revealing how the translator’ s gender identity aff ects the translation eff ect in the hope of highlighting the infl uence of translator’ s gender on the translator’ s subjectivity and enriching translation studies
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