A Comparative Analysis of Translations of The Little Prince Based on the Child-centered Perspective -- Taking the English Translations of Liu Mingjiu and Zheng Kelu as Examples
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literature, science fiction, poetry, and others. Children’s literature has a narrower audience compared to these genres, and the unique characteristics of the child audience have led to a consistently lower level of academic attention to children’s literature. China has always introduced
excellent children’s literary works from various countries around the world, making the translation of children’s literature quite important.
However, there is currently a lack of corresponding research on children’s literature and child- centered perspective. Therefore, this article
approaches the analysis of translated children’s literature from the perspective of literary translation appreciation. It examines aspects such as
vocabulary, sentence structures, rhetoric, etc., combined with selected passages from The Little Prince, in order to analyze the strengths and
weaknesses of translation in children’s literature. The hope is to provide some new insights into the translation of children’s literature.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/frim.v3i1.5865
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