摘 要

威廉福克纳所著《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是美国南方哥特文学中最富代表性的作品之一。小说讲述了艾米丽小姐的悲剧人生，其恐怖悬疑色彩也相当成功地给读者们留下了深刻印象。其独特的哥特式叙述风格融恐怖、死亡及浪漫色彩于一体，制造其恐怖悬疑的气氛，给读者们留下了极为深刻的印象。译介过程中，也有为数不少的译者致力于重现小说的哥特叙述风格，一定程度上，他们的汉语译本也达到了其目的。在小说现有的汉译本中，杨岂深所译《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》被广泛认为是最具有吸引力的。本文以杨岂深译本为例，从翻译目的、翻译策略及翻译方法来探讨其哥特风格的重现。

关键词：《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》；哥特风格；杨岂深汉译本；翻译策略及方法

Abstract

A Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, is regarded as one of the important representative works of southern gothic fiction in America. The story writes about Miss Emily’s tragic life with horror and suspense, which successfully and greatly impresses readers. It is famous for the gothic narrative style which combines fiction with horror, death, and at times romance. For a variety of translators, they attempted to represent the gothic style of the novel in their translations, and to some extent, they did. Among the Chinese versions, Yang Qishen’s version was found the most intriguing, and the present author resolved to find out how the gothic style is represented in his translation. The paper makes a thorough research of Yang’s translation by means of analyzing his translation notions, strategies and methods which make great contributions to the representation of the gothic style.

Key words: A Rose for Emily, Gothic style, Yang Qishen’s translation, translation strategies and methods

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 A Rose for Emily 1

1.2 The gothic style 1

2 Literature Review 3

2.1 Translations of A Rose for Emily 3

2.2 Translation-related research of A Rose for Emily 3

3 Theoretical Foundation —— the Skopos Theory of Translation Studies 5

3.1 Development of the Skopos Theory 5

3.2 Rules of the Skopos Theory 5

4 The Analysis of Representation of Gothic Style in Yang Qishen’s Chinese Translation 7

4.1 An evidence-based analysis of representing the gothic style in Yang’s translation 7

4.2 A discussion of translation strategies in Yang’s translation 11

5 Conclusion 13

References 14

Acknowledgements 15

On Representation of the Gothic Style in A Rose for Emily

- A Case Study of Yang Qishen's Chinese Translation

1 Introduction

1.1 A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the southern literature of the United States, primarily known for his novels and short stories. His writing is tactful in story-telling with complex syntax, featured by his creative writing skills such as great application of stream of consciousness, interior monologue, multiple points of view, disruption of the time sequence and complicated psychologic changes of characters. A Rose for Emily, one of the best known and most widely read short stories written by William Faulkner, also one of the representatives of gothic fiction, describes the huge transition and fierce conflict between the southern traditional culture and the northern advanced values after the American civil war (Kerry, 1989). Miss Emily, as a declining aristocracy under the special background, insists on pursuing her love but ends with poisoning her lover to death and sleeping with his body every day and night till she dies (Faulkner, 1950).

1.2 The gothic style