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YANG Fei-ran
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.09.002
College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Guizhou University of Engineering Science, Bijie, Guizhou, China
Topology, as a branch of mathematics, studies on the invariability of topological spaces after topological transformation, whose essence is topological equivalence. From the perspective of cultural inheritance and coherence, translation is essentially topological deformation. In literary translation, complete equivalence is almost impossible. Topological equivalence can be used to transform the text dynamically, which means that the translation remains the fundamental properties of the original text. Therefore, people can understand the meaning of the text based on another culture from different cultural backgrounds. From the view point of topology, the present paper purports to examine Liang Shiqiu’s translation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and found that the translation remains the features of source text by rendering effective topological strategies to realize topological equivalence and promote cultural exchanges between China and the West.
faith, meaning, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liang Shiqiu, topology
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, September 2022, Vol. 12, No. 9, 882-890
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