Maintaining aesthetic aspects in translation literary texts

Abstract EN

This study aims at identifying the abilities of MA translation students at Yemeni Academy for Post- Graduated Studies to translate the different literary texts and maintain the aesthetic aspects.

The main aim of the study was answering the question to what extent can MA translation students at Yemen Academy for Graduate Studies maintain the aesthetic aspects of the source text when translating from English into Arabic? The researcher selects a purposive sample of MA students (males and females).

The researcher designs a translation test that consists of group of English texts quoted from different resources and goes on through the process of validation done by specialists in the field and administers it to the students.

The results show the difficulties when translating literary texts and maintaining aesthetics aspects from the point of view of the MA students for different reasons.

At the end, the researcher provided some important recommendations: students should take account to literary texts as same as legal and commercial texts.

Students should avoid literal strategies and know that their mother language has a lot of aesthetics.

Students should practice translation and read more in their own language and that can help them to transfer the meaning in good way.