A Comparative Study of the Poem Translation Styles of the German Translation of A Dream of Red Mansions From the Perspective of Corpus-Translatology

Abstract

Poetry is an integral part of the artistic framework of A Dream of Red Mansions , and plays a crucial role in shaping the atmosphere, portraying characters, and reflecting social reality, therefore it has both unique artistic charm and research value. This paper takes Kuhn’s and Schwarz’s translation of A Dream of Red Mansions as the research objects, selects 19 poems that both translators have translated to make a corpus, uses the software LancsBox to compare the translations from three levels of vocabulary, syntax, and text, in order to provide a new interpretation dimension for the translation research of A Dream of Red Mansions and enrich the application of the corpus-based method in the field of translation research of Chinese classics.