关键词: 文学翻译; 整体细译; 整体细评; 霍译《红楼梦》

Abstract: This paper, inspired by the concept of overall-extended close reading in literary criticism, puts forward two similar concepts in literary translation and literary translation criticism, namely, overall-extended close translating and close translation criticism, which place emphasis on the interaction between the part and the whole as well as the controlling role of the whole over the part (the whole mainly referring to a text as a whole). These two concepts, involving factors both inside and outside the text, such as social and cultural context, some inter-texts, text as a whole, and specific textual constituents, are illustrated and proven by the Chinese translation of the added subtitles of David Hawkes and John Minford’s translation of Hong Lou Meng (such as THE GOLDEN DAYS, THE WARNING VOICE, THE DREAMER WAKES etc added by the translators) published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press as well as other typical translation examples in literary translation. If a translator doesn’t have the awareness and ability of overall-extended close translating, he or she will never come up with such beautiful and suitable translations like the Chinese translation of D. Hawkes and J. Minford’s added subtitles of Hong Lou Meng. The practice of overall-extended translating in literary translation should follow wholeness principle as well as harmony principle. Moreover, similar phenomena of creative treasons in literary translation may be sufficiently explained within the framework of overall-extended translating which further presupposes the necessity of overall-extended translation criticism.

Keywords: literary translation; overall-extended close translating; overall-extended close translation criticism; David Hawkes and John Minford’s English translation of Hong Lou Meng