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and Research Methods 
The author of this thesis intends to study modern Chinese prose translation from the perspective of Eugene A. Nida’s readers’ response theory. The author of this thesis has  taken  Xu  Dishan’s  masterpiece  The  Peanut  as  the  source  text  and  has  selected three  famous  English  versions  of  The  Peanut  as  the  target  text.  The  three  English versions  of  The  Peanut  selected  here  are  respectively  translated  by  Liu  Shicong, Zhang Peiji and Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang. In order to make this thesis richer and more  persuasive,  qualitative  analysis  is  carried  out  in  this  thesis  and  methods  of comparative analysis and summarization are adopted in evaluating the three different versions.  In  fact,  the  author  of  the  thesis  would  like  to  answer  the  following  research questions:  (1) Whether it is feasible or not to apply the readers’ response theory to the prose translation?  (2) How  to  compare  and  evaluate  the  translated  texts  in  the  lexical  level, syntactic level and textual level from the perspective of readers’ response theory ?  (3) In  the  process  of  modern  Chinese  prose  translation,  what  translation strategies  and  methods  can  be  applied  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  readers’ response theory?  
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Chapter Two literature review 

Nowadays,  a  great  many  scholars  have  been  engaged  in  the  research  of  prose translation  with  different  perspectives  and  methods,  which  have  gained  fruitful achievements.  To  begin  this  chapter,  the  definition  and  features  of  modern  Chinese prose will be presented here, then it is a brief literature review of the previous studies on prose translation abroad and at home, finally the overview of the translators of The Peanut will be need here. 

2.1 Introduction to Modern Chinese Prose 
Together with poetry, novel and drama, prose is a vital literary genre, and has a history of thousands of years. The definitions and features of the prose will be listed below. In addition, “modern Chinese prose” is one of the key words in this thesis, so the definition and features of the modern Chinese prose will be introduced in detail. What  is  the  prose?  “The  word  prose  is  used  to  define  any  type  of  writing  that doesn’t conform to the accepted form of poem. (Alexander, 1976)” C. Hugh Holman defined prose as “... the term is applied to all forms of written or spoken expression which do not have a regular rhythmic pattern. (1981)” Broadly speaking, those which are not in the verse form can be termed as prose, which scholars and researchers all over the world agree on. Westerners even put the 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。