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Chapter 12. Reproduction and reception of the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and polygamy

Kuunmong in translation
  • Jinsil Choi
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Abstract

This article investigates how the pre-modern Korean cultural concepts “Confucianism”, “Buddhism” and “polygamy” as represented in Kuunmong, a Korean novel supposedly published in 1689, were reproduced by two English translators with different religious backgrounds and writing in different periods, Reverend James Scarth Gale (1922) and Bishop Richard Rutt (1974); it is also my aim to examine how the concepts were introduced, explained, and received in the target culture. While Gale’s translation reveals a favorable attitude toward Buddhism and polygamy prevailing in the text, Rutt tended to reinterpret and reconstruct those practices in a more critical way. I suggest that this difference may be related to the different social milieu at the times of translating, readers’ expectations, translators’ individual opinions, as well as factors relating to the publishers, reflective of the different agential network in translation.

Abstract

This article investigates how the pre-modern Korean cultural concepts “Confucianism”, “Buddhism” and “polygamy” as represented in Kuunmong, a Korean novel supposedly published in 1689, were reproduced by two English translators with different religious backgrounds and writing in different periods, Reverend James Scarth Gale (1922) and Bishop Richard Rutt (1974); it is also my aim to examine how the concepts were introduced, explained, and received in the target culture. While Gale’s translation reveals a favorable attitude toward Buddhism and polygamy prevailing in the text, Rutt tended to reinterpret and reconstruct those practices in a more critical way. I suggest that this difference may be related to the different social milieu at the times of translating, readers’ expectations, translators’ individual opinions, as well as factors relating to the publishers, reflective of the different agential network in translation.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the contributors xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Gender and identity
  6. Chapter 1. Genos , sex, gender and genre 9
  7. Chapter 2. Dancing through the waves of feminism 25
  8. Part II. Texts and politics
  9. Chapter 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Breve Relación de la Destrucción de Las Indias ( Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies ) (1552) in translation 37
  10. Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung , an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? 53
  11. Chapter 5. Communicating change 79
  12. Part III. Texts and places
  13. Chapter 6. Lithuanian literature in English 95
  14. Chapter 7. Woest of wild 115
  15. Chapter 8. Polish dance in Eugene Onegin 131
  16. Part IV. Occident and Orient
  17. Chapter 9. The image of H. C. Andersen’s tales in China (1909–1925) 153
  18. Chapter 10. The cultural transformation of classical Chinese poetry in translation into English 171
  19. Chapter 11. The immigration of key cultural icons 185
  20. Chapter 12. Reproduction and reception of the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and polygamy 203
  21. Part V. Translating philosophy
  22. Chapter 13. Hegel’s Phenomenology 221
  23. Chapter 14. Adorno refracted 235
  24. Part VI. Text types
  25. Chapter 15. Construction of a cultural narrative through translation 257
  26. Chapter 16. Cultural satirical features in translation 275
  27. Chapter 17. Alterity, orality and performance in Bible translation 299
  28. Index of concepts 315
  29. Index of names 319
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140.12cho

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. About the contributors xi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part I. Gender and identity
  6. Chapter 1. Genos , sex, gender and genre 9
  7. Chapter 2. Dancing through the waves of feminism 25
  8. Part II. Texts and politics
  9. Chapter 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Breve Relación de la Destrucción de Las Indias ( Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies ) (1552) in translation 37
  10. Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung , an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? 53
  11. Chapter 5. Communicating change 79
  12. Part III. Texts and places
  13. Chapter 6. Lithuanian literature in English 95
  14. Chapter 7. Woest of wild 115
  15. Chapter 8. Polish dance in Eugene Onegin 131
  16. Part IV. Occident and Orient
  17. Chapter 9. The image of H. C. Andersen’s tales in China (1909–1925) 153
  18. Chapter 10. The cultural transformation of classical Chinese poetry in translation into English 171
  19. Chapter 11. The immigration of key cultural icons 185
  20. Chapter 12. Reproduction and reception of the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and polygamy 203
  21. Part V. Translating philosophy
  22. Chapter 13. Hegel’s Phenomenology 221
  23. Chapter 14. Adorno refracted 235
  24. Part VI. Text types
  25. Chapter 15. Construction of a cultural narrative through translation 257
  26. Chapter 16. Cultural satirical features in translation 275
  27. Chapter 17. Alterity, orality and performance in Bible translation 299
  28. Index of concepts 315
  29. Index of names 319
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