Paratext Serving Propaganda in the Introductions to Literary Translations to Polish and Czech in the 1950’s Cover Image

Paratekst w służbie propagandy. Wprowadzenia w przekładach literatury pięknej na język polski i czeski w latach 50. XX wieku
Paratext Serving Propaganda in the Introductions to Literary Translations to Polish and Czech in the 1950’s

Author(s): Joanna Królak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: cultural politics; realism; Romanticism; paratext; propaganda

Summary/Abstract: Translational literature in Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1950’s was influenced by the contemporary re-evaluation of national literature canon. The authors of introductions to the translations were required to be ideologically consistent. The promotion of Czech literature in Poland and of Polish literature in Czechoslovakia was conducted in a selective fashion that determined certain interpretations and values. The introductions were supposed to orientate the readers to a particular interpretation of a given translation, filtered by their awareness of doctrinal intertext.

  • Issue Year: 8/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-177
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish