Leo Tak-hung Chan is Professor and Head of the Department of Translation at Lingnan University, China.

• IntroductionTextualist and Narratological StudiesResponse, Reception and CriticismReaders in Their Many GuisesPART I:INTERACTNG WITH TEXTS: THE TARGET READER1. The Reading of Difference in Translated Fiction: Virginia Woolf's To the LighthouseDifference: Self vs. OtherPleasurable Texts and Reading PleasureForeignness and Footnotes"Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes"Reading and Border-Crossing2. Textual Hybridity and Textural Cohesion: Reading D. H. Lawrence in Chinese, with Special Reference to The RainbowPerspectives on Translational HybridityBuddhist Terms and Lawrence in Chinese TranslationNaturalization and Textual ImpurityProblems of Textural CohesionIssues of AcceptabilityExamples of Hybrid Non-translated Fiction3. Intertextuality and Interpretation or, How to Read Wang Dahong's Tradaptation of Dorian GrayTheorizing the Adaptive ModeDifferences as EquivalencesReading Du Liankui QueerlyReading IntertextuallyCoherence in a TradaptationPART II: HISTORIES OF RECEPTION: THE GENERAL READER4. The Elusiveness of the General Reader and a History of Mediated ReceptionReception: Translator, Author, or Reader?Four British NovelistsThe "Galsworthy Model" and Official IdeologyPopularity and the PublishersAcademics and the Modernist CanonA History of General Reader Reception5. Reader Reception at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The "Popularity" of Youlixisi and the New Reader of the Harry Potter in TranslationReader Responses to Translated Fiction in the 1980sUlysses: Untranslatability and the Commodification of a ClassicHarry Potter and the Emergence of the Reader-CriticThe Reader-Translator in the Internet AgeOld and New ReadersPART III: CRITICAL AND DESCRIPTIVIST READINGS: THE SPECIAL READER6. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (I)The Narratological ApproachThe Narrator in Omniscient ReportingThe Narrator in Free Indirect DiscourseThe Narrator in First-Person StorytellingThe Reader and the Narrator7. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (II)From Traditional to Post-Babelian ApproachesThe Linguistic Approach: Looking for MistakesThe Literary-Critical Approach: Reading ThematicallyThe Poststructuralist Approach in the Chinese ContextThe Descriptive Approach and the Translation Critic8. The Historian-Describer and Comparative Reading in Practice and TheorySynchronic Readings: Regional StylesDiachronic Readings: Period StylesRetranslation TheoryPolysystems TheoryTranslation Histories and Describers

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Leo Tak-hung Chan is Professor and Head of the Department of Translation at Lingnan University, China.

• IntroductionTextualist and Narratological StudiesResponse, Reception and CriticismReaders in Their Many GuisesPART I:INTERACTNG WITH TEXTS: THE TARGET READER1. The Reading of Difference in Translated Fiction: Virginia Woolf's To the LighthouseDifference: Self vs. OtherPleasurable Texts and Reading PleasureForeignness and Footnotes"Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes"Reading and Border-Crossing2. Textual Hybridity and Textural Cohesion: Reading D. H. Lawrence in Chinese, with Special Reference to The RainbowPerspectives on Translational HybridityBuddhist Terms and Lawrence in Chinese TranslationNaturalization and Textual ImpurityProblems of Textural CohesionIssues of AcceptabilityExamples of Hybrid Non-translated Fiction3. Intertextuality and Interpretation or, How to Read Wang Dahong's Tradaptation of Dorian GrayTheorizing the Adaptive ModeDifferences as EquivalencesReading Du Liankui QueerlyReading IntertextuallyCoherence in a TradaptationPART II: HISTORIES OF RECEPTION: THE GENERAL READER4. The Elusiveness of the General Reader and a History of Mediated ReceptionReception: Translator, Author, or Reader?Four British NovelistsThe "Galsworthy Model" and Official IdeologyPopularity and the PublishersAcademics and the Modernist CanonA History of General Reader Reception5. Reader Reception at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The "Popularity" of Youlixisi and the New Reader of the Harry Potter in TranslationReader Responses to Translated Fiction in the 1980sUlysses: Untranslatability and the Commodification of a ClassicHarry Potter and the Emergence of the Reader-CriticThe Reader-Translator in the Internet AgeOld and New ReadersPART III: CRITICAL AND DESCRIPTIVIST READINGS: THE SPECIAL READER6. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (I)The Narratological ApproachThe Narrator in Omniscient ReportingThe Narrator in Free Indirect DiscourseThe Narrator in First-Person StorytellingThe Reader and the Narrator7. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (II)From Traditional to Post-Babelian ApproachesThe Linguistic Approach: Looking for MistakesThe Literary-Critical Approach: Reading ThematicallyThe Poststructuralist Approach in the Chinese ContextThe Descriptive Approach and the Translation Critic8. The Historian-Describer and Comparative Reading in Practice and TheorySynchronic Readings: Regional StylesDiachronic Readings: Period StylesRetranslation TheoryPolysystems TheoryTranslation Histories and Describers

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Leo Tak-hung Chan is Professor and Head of the Department of Translation at Lingnan University, China.

• IntroductionTextualist and Narratological StudiesResponse, Reception and CriticismReaders in Their Many GuisesPART I:INTERACTNG WITH TEXTS: THE TARGET READER1. The Reading of Difference in Translated Fiction: Virginia Woolf's To the LighthouseDifference: Self vs. OtherPleasurable Texts and Reading PleasureForeignness and Footnotes"Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes"Reading and Border-Crossing2. Textual Hybridity and Textural Cohesion: Reading D. H. Lawrence in Chinese, with Special Reference to The RainbowPerspectives on Translational HybridityBuddhist Terms and Lawrence in Chinese TranslationNaturalization and Textual ImpurityProblems of Textural CohesionIssues of AcceptabilityExamples of Hybrid Non-translated Fiction3. Intertextuality and Interpretation or, How to Read Wang Dahong's Tradaptation of Dorian GrayTheorizing the Adaptive ModeDifferences as EquivalencesReading Du Liankui QueerlyReading IntertextuallyCoherence in a TradaptationPART II: HISTORIES OF RECEPTION: THE GENERAL READER4. The Elusiveness of the General Reader and a History of Mediated ReceptionReception: Translator, Author, or Reader?Four British NovelistsThe "Galsworthy Model" and Official IdeologyPopularity and the PublishersAcademics and the Modernist CanonA History of General Reader Reception5. Reader Reception at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The "Popularity" of Youlixisi and the New Reader of the Harry Potter in TranslationReader Responses to Translated Fiction in the 1980sUlysses: Untranslatability and the Commodification of a ClassicHarry Potter and the Emergence of the Reader-CriticThe Reader-Translator in the Internet AgeOld and New ReadersPART III: CRITICAL AND DESCRIPTIVIST READINGS: THE SPECIAL READER6. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (I)The Narratological ApproachThe Narrator in Omniscient ReportingThe Narrator in Free Indirect DiscourseThe Narrator in First-Person StorytellingThe Reader and the Narrator7. Source-Based Critique of Translated Fiction (II)From Traditional to Post-Babelian ApproachesThe Linguistic Approach: Looking for MistakesThe Literary-Critical Approach: Reading ThematicallyThe Poststructuralist Approach in the Chinese ContextThe Descriptive Approach and the Translation Critic8. The Historian-Describer and Comparative Reading in Practice and TheorySynchronic Readings: Regional StylesDiachronic Readings: Period StylesRetranslation TheoryPolysystems TheoryTranslation Histories and Describers

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