Intertextuality as a Paradigm for Chinese <i>Huaben</i> Anthology: Interpretation Based on Rainier Lanselle’s Translation of <i>The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time</i>

LYU Ruyu

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236407

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LYU Ruyu. Intertextuality as a Paradigm for Chinese Huaben Anthology: Interpretation Based on Rainier Lanselle’s Translation of The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(4): 97-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236407

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LYU Ruyu. Intertextuality as a Paradigm for Chinese Huaben Anthology: Interpretation Based on Rainier Lanselle’s Translation of The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(4): 97-107. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236407

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Intertextuality as a Paradigm for Chinese Huaben Anthology: Interpretation Based on Rainier Lanselle’s Translation of The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236407

LYU Ruyu

Renmin University of China

Received Date: 2023-05-05
Accepted Date: 2023-10-10

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In his introduction to the French translation of The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time, Rainier Lanselle, French sinologist and translator, pays immense attention to the textual identity of the work as an anthology of huaben, and proposes the concept of “Chinese intertextuality” in order to systematise the intrinsic characteristics of this ancient Chinese anthology. On the one hand, Lanselle, through the vision provided by the theory of intertextuality, demonstrates the vertical intertextual characteristics of the anthology, presenting the relationship between texts included in the anthology and their superiors on various levels, and thus explores the significance generated by this relationship. On the other hand, Lanselle reveals the horizontal intertextual relationship between the texts in the anthology, analyzing them in detail and highlighting the interconnections between the texts within the anthology by means of translation. With his translation of The Spectacles in Ancient and Modern Time, Rainier Lanselle completed a profound study of ancient Chinese literature in the context of Western languages and Western theories, providing a new dimension for the study of ancient literature; moreover, in the process of elaborating the intertextual characteristics of the anthology, Lanselle also demonstrates the possibility of enriching and extending the theory of intertextuality with Chinese texts.

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