Aesthetic Equivalence in Translation of Literary Texts on the Light of Aesthetic Reception

مطالعات زبان و ترجمه

Article 4, Volume 47, Issue 4, February 2015, Pages 69-90   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/lts.v47i4.48332

Authors

Mohadese Safinejad; Ali Khazaeefar^* ; Mahmud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh

Department of English, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Aesthetic equivalence is produced when both the source and target texts enjoy the same degree of interpretability with semantic explicitness. This requires both texts to have the same number of indeterminacies. Roman Ingarden, the Polish phenomenologist and aesthetician, was the first one to consider the concept of indeterminacy as a characteristic of literary works. Then Iser and Jauss, two aesthetic theoreticians, applied it in different theories. In this paper, the concept of “aesthetic of equivalence” is defined based on the literary concept of “indeterminacy”. Then it’s the importance is shown in different translations of Jibran Khalil Jibran’s The Prophet. The analysis of fourteen translations of three sentences of this text shows that the translators has tried to explicate everything so they keep the text far away of the aesthetic equivalence

Keywords

Aesthetic of Reception; Aesthetic Equivalence; Indeterminacy; Iser; Jauss; Ingarden

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