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Tracing Jo March in China: A Corpus-Based Cognitive Stylistic Study of Characterization in Chinese Translations of Little Women

Tracing Jo March in China: A Corpus-Based Cognitive Stylistic Study of Characterization in Chinese Translations of Little Women

Tao, Yuan

Hardcover

Literary CriticismWriting InstructionWomen's Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 7, 2026

ISBN10: 1041353804
ISBN13: 9781041353805
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 7 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.19
Language: English

This book explores Jo March's portrayal in Chinese translations of Little Women over the past century, using narratology, gender studies, cognitive stylistics, and descriptive translation studies to analyze her representation across surface structure, textbase, and situation model.

The findings reveal the diachronic evolution of Jo March's characterization, from a masculine-coded figure to a hyperfeminine subject, and finally to a more individualistic heroine. This illuminates the interaction between ideologies, patronage, and the agency of translators in different historical contexts. The theoretical expansion and triangulated, mixed-methods approach open up new avenues for interdisciplinary research into translated fiction, shedding new light on protagonists in the bildungsroman genre. The book has implications for translation practice, literary pedagogy, and cross-cultural studies.

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