Nie tylko Ishiguro. Szkice o literaturze anglojęzycznej w Polsce
Not Only Ishiguro. Essays on Anglophone Literature in Poland
Contributor(s): Joanna Dyła-Urbańska (Editor), Monika Kocot (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: literary translation; publishing market; Polish translations; poetry translation
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-544-5
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-8142-543-8
- Page Count: 244
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Przeboje po polskiemu. Polskie przekłady powieści Michaela Cunninghama i Alana Hollinghursta
Przeboje po polskiemu. Polskie przekłady powieści Michaela Cunninghama i Alana Hollinghursta
(Bestsellers in Broken Polish. Polish Translations of Michael Cunningham’s and Alan Hollinghurst’s Novels)
- Author(s):Jacek Dehnel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:35-47
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:literary translation; Michael Cunningham; Alan Hollinghurst, publishing market
- Summary/Abstract:Jacek Dehnel’s article offers a broad context of Polish publishing market with a particular emphasis on the situation of literary translators. The author carries out a critical analysis of Polish translations of Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child demonstrating the negative influence of publishing market practices on the quality of translated texts. The article is an extended version of two reviews published in Gazeta Wyborcza: “N jak Nowy Jork, N jak niespełnienie”; the editor’s title: “JacekDehnel o nowej powieści Cunninghama” (20 September 2011) and “Obce dziecko po polskiemu”; the editor’s title: “Obce dziecko Hollinghursta: potęga (złego) przekładu” (9 October 2012)
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Cynamon na mapie ciała. The Cinnamon Peeler Michaela Ondaatjego w przekładach na język polski
Cynamon na mapie ciała. The Cinnamon Peeler Michaela Ondaatjego w przekładach na język polski
(The Cinnamon On the Corporeal Map. The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje and its Polish translations)
- Author(s):Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:49-68
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Michael Ondaatje; contemporary Canadian literature; Polish translations; literary translation; cultural context
- Summary/Abstract:Michael Ondaatje is recognized in Poland mainly as a novelist and the author of The English Patient; his poetic works are, therefore, hardly known to the Polish reader. Ondaatje is one of these poets whose writing is shaped by the biographical experience – his poems often allude to the past and present an imaginative re-creation of memory and time. One of the most famous and beautiful of Ondaatje’s poems, The Cinnamon Peeler from Running in the Family (1984), is deeply immersed in Sri Lankan (or Cingalese) intensity of sensations and feelings. The article aims to present and analyse the four Polish translations of this poem and critically compare the translation strategies adopted by its translators – Jerzy Jarniewicz (Zbieracz cynamonu, Literatura na świecie 1998/4-5; Zbieracz cynamonu. Poezje wybrane, Kraków 2016), Krystyna Lenkowska (Obieracz cynamonu. Fraza 2001/3), Justyna Drobnik and Zofia Małkowiak (Korowacz cynamonu and Cynamonowy pan, the Internet website). The translators take up a difficult translation challenge since Ondaatje’s poem is not only highly musical and imaginative, but also immersed in language and culture that are “exotic” in the Polish cultural context and, consequently, open to manifold postcolonial interpretations.
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Problemy recepcji i przekładu współczesnych angielskich powieści dla młodzieży na przykładzie Dzienników Rachel Joanny Nadin
Problemy recepcji i przekładu współczesnych angielskich powieści dla młodzieży na przykładzie Dzienników Rachel Joanny Nadin
(Translation and Reception Problems of Contemporary British Novels for Teenagers in Joanna Nadin’s The Rachel Riley Diaries)
- Author(s):Joanna Dyła-Urbańska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:69-85
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:taboo in translation; teenage literature in translation; Polish publishing market
- Summary/Abstract:This article aims to discuss several selected issues, with a particular emphasis on the problem of taboo in translation, concerning the Polish translation and reception of a particular type of British novel for teenagers – a diary written by a teenager. The article focuses on the selected problems of Polish translation (done by myself) of Joanna Nadin’s popular The Rachel Riley Diaries series and gives a brief overview of its most significant translation determinants. My discussion is situated within a broader context of contemporary teenage fiction analysis with a particular emphasis on the problems of Polish literature for teenage readers and the politics of the publishing market.
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Polska recepcja współczesnej literatury anglojęzycznej o Dickensie
Polska recepcja współczesnej literatury anglojęzycznej o Dickensie
(The Polish Reception of Contemporary English Novels about Dickens)
- Author(s):Aleksandra Budrewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:87-106
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:biography; Charles Dickens; novel; Poland; translation
- Summary/Abstract:The interests and ambitions of this paper fall within the broadly understood domain of reception of English literature in Poland. The article itself engages with four contemporary novels, Drood by Dane Simmons, Wanting by Richard Flanagan, Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold, and The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin, all of which derive their inspiration from the work of Charles Dickens. The paper attempts to find parallels and affinities between the four novels and account for their enormous popularity with Polish publishers as well as readers of fiction. The second part of the article focuses on the translation of Dan Simmons’s Drood into Polish, in particular the vividly visual and evocatively sensual descriptions of the seedy underworld of Victorian London.
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Jakby debiutantka. Siri Hustvedt po polsku
Jakby debiutantka. Siri Hustvedt po polsku
(As If She Was a Debutante. Siri Hustvedt in Polish)
- Author(s):Anna Marchewka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:107-118
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Siri Hustvedt; economy of prestige; Polish literary circulation; visibility of woman’s art and work; cultural and gender roles
- Summary/Abstract:The article is an attempt to confront the ways in which Siri Hustvedt’s works have been received in Polish literary circulation. Although all of Hustvedt’s novels have been translated into Polish and published in recognizable publishing houses, only the last one, The Blazing World, nominated to The Man Booker Prize (economy of prestige is still strong) was picked up by mainstream literary criticism. The novel’s title is, of course, borrowed from a legendary book by Margaret Cavendish as Hustvedt explores the tradition built by female writers. Still, above all, Husvedt is treated as if she has never published anything else, not a piece of fiction nor science or poetry. Also, she was more often presented mainly as “the wife” (back in the day there was a rumor about “the real” author of Blindfold and her other works – supposedly Paul Auster) than an independent artist. On the one hand, therefore, there was an absence of recognition of the author and her role, on the other hand, her presence was neither full, nor accurate and built on the economy of prestige (nomination to the important award) and patriarchal pattern (she was visible only as an extension of the famous husband). Siri Hustvedt is conscious of the situation and her ability to process it and make into an artwork is perhaps one of the best such examples in contemporary literature. She is able of making not only such statements, but also asking stimulating and even provocative questions about art, work, autobiography, cultural roles and a long and fragile process of emancipation.
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Polskie pośmiertne życie Sylvii Plath
Polskie pośmiertne życie Sylvii Plath
(Sylvia Plath’s Polish Life After Death)
- Author(s):Ewa Rajewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:119-141
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:Sylvia Plath; Polish reception; literary translation; poems; The Bell Jar; Szklany klosz
- Summary/Abstract:The article is an attempt to cover the Polish reception of literary oeuvre by Sylvia Plath. Translations, especially translations of her poetry, are in the centre, however due to the fact that the biographical myth of Plath lives on also in Poland, The Bell Jar, her short stories, diary and letters are also mentioned. Polish translations of all these texts, including volumes of Plath’s poetry, met with lively response among critics and readers. The most intriguing record of this response is a substantial number of Polish poems inspired by poetry and biography of Sylvia Plath; some of them are discussed in the text.
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Proza jako autoimmunologia (David Foster Wallace i jego polski zapowiednik)
Proza jako autoimmunologia (David Foster Wallace i jego polski zapowiednik)
(Literary Autoimmunology (David Foster Wallace and his Polish ”Predecessor”))
- Author(s):Eliza Kącka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:143-156
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:David Foster Wallace; Ireneusz Iredyński; provocation; disgust; comparative literature
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses mainly Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. The author analyses the text by making references to other texts by Wallace but also to Polish literature. Kącka is interested in finding a peculiar context of common artistic sensibilities and a similar vision of the world, which is why she traces points of convergence, of existential and interpretative analogies between David Foster Wallace’s and Ireneusz Iredyński’s immanent poetics. One of the main aesthetic categories discussed by Kącka are provocation (including literary provocation) and disgust. In her opinion, the category of disgust is precisely the element which connects these two authors.
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„Oto głowa zdrajcy”. O sporze Czesława Miłosza z Philipem Larkinem i Robinsonem Jeffersem
„Oto głowa zdrajcy”. O sporze Czesława Miłosza z Philipem Larkinem i Robinsonem Jeffersem
(Revisiting Czesław Miłosz’s dispute with Philip Larkin and Robinson Jeffers)
- Author(s):Przemysław Michalski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:157-173
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Miłosz; Larkin; Jeffers; treason; poetry; death; nature
- Summary/Abstract:Abstract: The aim of the article is to employ the category of treason, which is relatively seldom used in literary studies, in discussing Czesław Miłosz’s approach to the work of two very different poets, namely Philip Larkin and Robinson Jeffers. The charges of treason were brought against Larkin by Miłosz in his angry rejection of the Englishman’s poetry, which he saw as a betrayal of human values. My intention is to show that Miłosz’s reading of Larkin’s work is highly subjective and patently biased. The most egregious examples of his prejudice against Larkin is a short poem “Against the Poetry of Philip Larkin”, which is little more than a hurried dismissal of his work and worldview. My ambition is to try to redress the balance by identifying and exposing the prejudices and hostilities which shape Miłosz’s interpretation of Larkin’s poetry. While the poet from Hull never fails to be censured by Miłosz for his alleged misanthropy, the majestic verse of Jeffers’s identification with nature meets with far more understanding and appreciation, though – as I try to prove in this essay – the American poet’s was really a poetry of treason and defection to the enemy. I contend that Jeffers betrayed humanity by willful desertion of human vantage point and observing the baffling follies of mankind from the perspective of inhuman nature.
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Poezja wciąż uwikłana. Najnowsze tłumaczenia liryki Rudyarda Kiplinga na tle jej wcześniejszej recepcji przekładowej w Polsce
Poezja wciąż uwikłana. Najnowsze tłumaczenia liryki Rudyarda Kiplinga na tle jej wcześniejszej recepcji przekładowej w Polsce
(Poetry Still Involved. Recent Translations of Rudyard Kipling’s Poems and Their Former Translational Interpretations in Poland)
- Author(s):Arkadiusz Luboń
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:175-199
- No. of Pages:25
- Keywords:poetry translation; political discourse; translational interpretation; ideology
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the latest Polish translations of verses by Rudyard Kipling and their relations with current literary, cultural and ideological discourses in Poland. Retrospective recapitulation of the manners the poetry of British Nobel Prize Laureate was interpreted and analyzed throughout its history clearly suggests at least one common pattern in critical and translational perception of Kipling’s texts. After the years at the turn of 19th and 20th Centuries, when his poetry had been marginalized by Polish publishers as supporting colonial politics of European empires, his poetical works – for the same reason – were often translated and eagerly printed during the interwar period. Ostracism for his “imperialistic” agenda after the Second World War in the communist state of People’s Republic of Poland only slightly changed after the political turn in 1989, since the translations of Kipling’s writings remained sparse and occasional due to the popularity of postcolonial studies among Polish readers and critics. Numerous of the latest translations also link Kipling’s poetry to Polish social and political context – often as a result of arbitrary changes introduced by the translators in the target texts.
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Różowe, czerwone. O wybiórczości polskiej recepcji dzieła Adrienne Rich
Różowe, czerwone. O wybiórczości polskiej recepcji dzieła Adrienne Rich
(Red and Pink. The Politics of Exclusion
in the Polish Reception of Adrienne Rich’s Writing)
- Author(s):Marta Koronkiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:201-217
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Adrienne Rich; poetry; feminism; appropriation
- Summary/Abstract:The essay offers a critical analysis of various tensions and tendencies in the Polish reception of the poetry of Adrienne Rich. In Poland, Rich is known chiefly as a feminist rather than a Marxist writer, and the focus remains on her very early identity-focused poems from the 1970s. From the 90s onwards, Rich has famously distanced herself from her early work, advocating instead for a more radical, universalist and anticapitalist approach to the poetic form. The fact that this shift is almost completely absent from her Polish reception can be seen as a result of a long-term process of political appropriation - those responsible for promoting Rich's work are interested in weaponising her for the purposes of an identity-driven movement. Thus Polish readers get access to a picture that's as incomplete as it is misleading; and yet on the other hand, this also allows us some insight into the political and ideological reasons behind the work of translators, critics and activists responsible for introducing Rich to the Polish audience.
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Referencja i bezpieczeństwo. Trop do lektury Pounda
Referencja i bezpieczeństwo. Trop do lektury Pounda
(Reference and safety. Reading Pound)
- Author(s):Paweł Kaczmarski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
- Page Range:219-244
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:Ezra Pound; poetry; reception; right-wing ideology; fascism
- Summary/Abstract:The essay compares and contrasts two main tendencies in the contemporary Polish reception of the work of Ezra Pound. On the one hand, Pound is a popular writer in the Polish far-right circles, where his poetry plays decidedly second fiddle to the more overt racist and fascist undertones of his political and economic writings. On the other hand, there’s a largely depoliticised way of reading Pound that’s been promoted mainly by the academic writers and journalists who attempt to draw a clear line between Pound's literary brilliance and his unacceptable political views. With the notable exception of Andrzej Sosnowski’s essays, virtually all contemporary interpretations of Pound's work are thus guilty of an ideologically motivated simplification. The author's goal is to sketch out a possibility of a new progressive reading of Pound’s work – one where the most significant tension is to be found not between the poetic and the political elements of his writings, but within a larger drive towards material security as a guarantee of personal freedom.
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