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Fantastyczny tygiel

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The chapter, by Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, explores generic and cultural syncretism in Ben Aaronovitch’s cycle Rivers of London. Having defined urban fantasy, the author proceeds to place emphasis on the overwhelming heterogeneity adapted within the genre, which suggests its openness to various influences, transformations and modifications. In this particular case the elements of urban fantasy and the criminal novel have been successfully incorporated to create a harmonious whole. The cycle also relies on a hybrid ethnic identity of the protagonist and his dialogic relationship with a more experienced wizard, a representative of the former imperial order, to suggest that peaceful cooperation is possible despite differences in ethnic, social and class background. Examining the vision of a city as a melting pot, the author argues that the fantastic level of the text has been construed as just one more component of a multicultural London in which different cultures, nationalities and religions meet. The cycle breaks the predominance of whiteness in the fantasy genre, and introduces instead social and cultural diversity, which reveals the potential of urban fantasy to deal with difficult issues of our times and provide a valid commentary about contemporary reality.

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La canción como discurso ideológico

Author(s): Sabina Deditius / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

This paper analyses a rap song Barras y Estrellas by Nach using Critical DiscourseAnalysis (Van Dijk, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2008) as a theoretical framework with the aim of examining how the ideology is conveyed through the use of language in a song. Author’schoices of words which are empowered by worldviews and ideologies which furthermake decoding the meaning of a song even more complex. Special attention is given tothe lexical choice, theme, semantic strategies, and how these features are skillfully deployedin the song. It is discovered that through an ideologically-driven use of language,the songs echo ethos of combat and prove as an effective tool for social creation of groupidentity.

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Carlota, una princesa nacida para gobernar

Author(s): Barbara Obtułowicz / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The present article presents a figure Carlota Amelia Coburg, daughter of King Leopold I of the Belgians, and her exceptional qualities to exercise power. Carlota was the wife of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venice (1857—1859), emperor of Mexico (1864—1867). Thanks to his father, Leopold I, King of the Belgians, she received an excellent education in all subjects, especially in foreign policy languages, law, and diplomacy. Her role in the history of the Second Mexican Empire is fundamental. It was she who persuaded her husband to accept the Mexican crown and then not allow him to abdicate. During three years of the existence of the Empire, Carlota not only helped Maximilian I to take reins of the state, but also to have real power as regent.

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Menos mal, que nos queda… ¿Portugal? Breve historia de las relaciones luso-españolas y su imagen contemporánea en la prensa portuguesa y española

Author(s): Anna Olchówka / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

Various surfaces of Spain-Portugal relations, formed through centuries of coexistence and influences, are still present in our contemporary mass media reality, andmantain some of the most important stereotypes about the rivalry between those twocountries. A short historical summary shows that mutual prejudices exceed the simplestsimplifications of today. For decades Spanish and Portuguese literature is trying to betterunderstand this rebellious Iberian characteristic, its nature and sources. This work willpresent a press image of Spain-Portugal relations and focus on three main subjects ofactuality: politics, economy and sport. The investigated material were press news fromthe most important newspapers (on-line editions) of Spain and Portugal.

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¡Arriba España! La imagen de ESPAÑA en los carteles de la propaganda franquista

Author(s): Martyna SOŃTA / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

One of the common manifestations of the Spanish Francoist’s propaganda were posters with a variety of symbols and passwords promoting certain attitudes of society andcreating a whole image of the state. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the propaganda’simage of SPAIN in the context of the nationalist’s ideology camp. The materialfor analysis was selected from agitational posters issued in the era of General Franco’sregime which contain titles and slogans about the Spanish state, including the mostimportant key-words of Francoism. The posters were assigned to different categories, according to the used metaphors, conceptual and imaginative schemes. On this base it waspossible to build up a propaganda’s definition of the state and extract basic features ofthe propaganda’s language. This linguistic analysis refers to the theory of the linguisticpicture of the world by Jerzy Bartmiński.

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Corridos y narcocorridos, expresión musical y cultural de México, 1910—2010

Author(s): Maria Carmen Tatay Fernández / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

One of the most popular folk music in Mexico are the ballads or corridos. Two historical periods have been portrayed through this of musical expression: the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the Revolutionary Ballads Corridos Revolucionarios and the Drug Ballads Narcocorridos in the present decades about current events. Both share to be a popularexpression, many times far away from the official interpretation of the events. They havea common language adapted to a similar musical rythm and have been widely adoptedby the Mexican people as their interpretation of historical events.Therefore, I propose to review two key periods in Mexican History, 1910 and 2010 from an academic perspective using these ballads as units of analysis, taking into account their contents (comparing and contrasting between both types of ballads) and their cultural expressions. Let the music to teach us about Mexico!

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Traducción y política en la Edad Media: la Consolatio Philosophiae de Boecio y sus versiones hispánicas

Author(s): Antonio Doñas / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

In less than a century, Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae was translated into Castilian and into Catalan as many as ten times. Why was this book translated so many timesinto the same languages? There were obviously geographical, social, linguistic, literary,and stylistic considerations, but in this paper I would like to stress the political pressures:in my opinion, two of these versions were composed, at least in part, as an apologiafor, or an expression of exoneration of their dedicatees, the infant James of Majorca andthe Condestable Ruy López Dávalos, presenting them, through the identification withBoethius, as victims of injustice.

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El verbo de movimiento andar y sus equivalencias traductoras en polaco: aproximación al estudio contrastivo

Author(s): Monika Głowicka / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The mail objective of this study is to analyze the behavior of the Spanish verb inmotion andar and to compare it with corresponding Polish equivalents. We examine thisunit in terms of comparative method of translation study: we search Spanish sentencesin modern literature, Polish equivalents in translation and describe them with the purposeto reflect the structural differences between Spanish and Polish. We examine themeaning and equivalents in translation of the verb andar when it expresses motion andhas a figurative sense.

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¿Intraducible o sin equivalencia? Algunas consideraciones sobre la falta de equivalencia pragmática

Author(s): Maciej Paweł Jaskot / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the following research paper is to give an insight into the issue of the lack of pragmatic equivalence. After recalling the basic principles of equivalence in translation sciences (Jakobson, Nida, Koller), the importance of translation of interlingual andpragmatic senses is underlined. A brief classification of the categories of words that cansuffer from a lack of pragmatic equivalence is presented together with contrastive examplesfrom Polish, Spanish and Russian. The main purpose of the paper is to highlight thedifficulty of translating a lexical unit with the least possible waste of all its meanings,including the pragmatic one.

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Algunos problemas de la enseñanza de traducción especializada: campos semánticos del español jurídico y del polaco jurídico

Author(s): Katarzyna Kacprzak / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The paper analyses certain semantic fields of the Polish and Spanish legal languages, and how these can be used in teaching of specialized translations. The Author argues that the concept of the semantic field provides for a good introduction to legal translation intricacies. Analised are synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms/hyponyms, and the equivalence ranges of the base legal concepts like jurysdykcja [jurisdiction], postępowanie sądowe [court proceedings], środek zaskarżenia [mean of appeal] or the verb uchylić [abolish, dismiss, quash, revoke] and their Spanish equivalents. The Author offers translation lab problems to solve, that involve tracing how the relevant semantic fields overlap and where they do not, and definition of the semantic sub-fields where they do match. Also exercises intypical collocations and word formation in the selected semantic fields.

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Antonín Pikhart, el fundador del hispanismo traductivo checo

Author(s): Jana Mrkvová / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Antonín Pikhart, a lawyer by profession, represents an important culturally active figure of the turn of the twentieth century. From the point of view of literary and translation history, his groundbreaking work constitutes his most notable achievement — Pikhart laid the foundations of systematic Czech translations from Spanish, Catalan and partially also Hispanic American literatures. He authored his own texts as well, among which lyrical works and travel and biographical sketches prevail. The analysis of his personal library has yielded many interesting findings reflective not only of its formation and organization but also of Pikhart’s translation work and his relationships with Spanish and Catalan writers. Following the data ascertained during the research of his library, we have also examined Pikhart’s correspondence with selected Spanish authors, included in his personal fund stored in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague.

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Las Postales de España (Španielske pohľadnice) de la escritora eslovaca Zuzka Zguriška en español como un nuevo reto traductológico

Author(s): Cristina Simón Alegre / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

In this paper we approach a work that hasn´t been very studied. The book travelŠpanielske pohľadnice (1931) by the Slovak writer Zuzka Zguriška is a portrait of Spain inthe 20 years of XX century. This book has not been translated into any foreign language.We analyze the problem of translation of some Czech words into Spanish in the chapter“En Madrid” of the Spanish postcards. We explain the situation of the Slovak languagein the interwar period to contextualize the problem around the Czech words and analyzetheir translation process into Spanish language.

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Al margen de la recepción recíproca de las teorías de la traducción checa e hispana

Author(s): Petra Vavroušová / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

At present, Translation Studies are undergoing methodological innovation that brings, among other things, the study of areas that were forgotten until recently or not discovered at all. The objective lies in presenting modern concepts of Spanish, Latin American and Czech origin, using the following lines of investigation as a basis: 1) Sedm tváří translatologie [Seven faces of Translation Studies] introduces new concepts and methods studied in the Iberian Peninsula; 2) Překlad a tlumočení jako most mezi kulturami [Translation and interpreting as a bridge between cultures] presents tendencies in Latin America; 3) Jiří Levý: Una concepción (re)descubierta [Jiří Levý: a (re)discovered conception] introduces Levý’s innovative concepts to the Spanish speaking world. The methodology lies in selecting and translating the most representative texts by contemporary Spanish and Latin American translation scholars and by Levý in their respective languages, thus making a contribution to the exchange between Czech and Hispanic theories.

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Teatr fantastyki w Rękopisie znalezionym w Saragossie Jana Potockiego

Author(s): Maria Janoszka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The present article analyses the fantasy themes in the Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie by Jan Potocki from the perspective of their theatricality. The Rękopis, traditionally treated as a novel which exposes the belief in supernatural phenomena, appears in the interpretative perspective that was embraced as a work which reveals in a penetrating way complex relations between truth and illusion as well as the facility with which the boundary between these two things may be modified. This problem does not assume merely the forms of epistemological or psychological reflection – also the ways of creating novelistic and theatrical illusion are problematised in this context on a level with the methods of their deconstruction. These observations lead us to a conclusion that against the background of its contemporary novels, the Rękopis constitutes an example of an exceptionally conscious and multi‑faceted use of the convention of fantasy literature.

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Inność w Marii Antoniego Malczewskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Więzik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author of the article attempts to prove that Otherness in Maria by Antoni Malczewski is not limited merely to the protagonists of the poem but also involves the nature that was created by the writer (the flora and the fauna) as well as the beliefs and customs. This aspect has to do also with the entire group of artists – “the Ukrainian school of Polish Romanticism” – within which Malczewski is classified. At the same time, the article represents a contribution to the discussion about post‑colonialism and the Polish contexts of this phenomenon that goes on in the humanities.

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Zamiast wstępu. Literatura?… na boku?…

Author(s): Józef Olejniczak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The sketch is meant simultaneously as a reconnaissance and an outline of researchon mutual relations (permeations) between literary and theoretical discourses. On the basis of the microinterpretations of contemporary novels (Do niewidzenia, do niejutra by Joanna Bartoń and Dziady by Paweł Goźliński), the author points out to the shift of the “presence” of theoretical discourse from the margin position to the centre arranging a literary text. The author also poses a question whether this is the feature of postmodern narration. Also, a question of fundamental importance for outlining the situation of contemporary literature, concerning the place of the institution of literature in contemporary culture.

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Patryka przyczynkarza rozważania o handlowej makulaturze (Zbigniew Herbert)

Author(s): Romana Patyk-Lenarczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Zbigniew Herbert is not only a poet of irony, but also a careful reader of poetry and its teacher, not infrequently mocking the kind that is too detached from reality, devoid of strength, simplicity, and dignity (“siła, prostota i godność”).Various scattered writings published by the poet within a period of half a century provide a rich material containing explicitly formulated views on basic problems concerning poetry, its role, but also its values, meaning, and the specificity of a poetic word (including the functions of rhymes or metaphors). The aim of didactic contributions becomes to demonstrate that poetry is a basic commodity, necessary for every‑day life, but also to specify its place in culture and in history.As a theorist and a poet, he considers the role of poetry and a poet, as well as the significance of beauty. He discusses with the arty idea of situating the poet above the world: poetry is not a value in itself (and for itself), it emphasizes the value, but appreciates it only when it becomes an attempt at surpassing itself, when it opens up for the other and the reality. Poetic language has to suit ordinary human life, as only then will it be able to control the chaos of reality. Despite the fact that the author of Mr. Cogito distances himself from the youthful optimism concerning the influence of poetry on the fate of the world and the progress of mankind, he does not cease to believe in its power to construct values and to reconstruct the morality of the world. Artistic actions that he undertakes are referred to as „wycieczka aktywnej wyobraźni w poszukiwaniu struktury, porządku” (“a trip of active imagination in search of structure, order”). In all these actions one can discern the wish to penetrate the essence of words and objects, and to rip the language form the semantic crisis (“zapaść semantyczna”) that renders the distinctions between god and evil, truth and falsehood impossible. Herbert demonstrates that poetry is not merely trade wastepaper (as he calls it, “handlowa makulatura”), but an unusual power, which, thanks to its ordinariness, is capable of reconciling man with reality.

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„Nadzy w zbroi, w czasie” Zeugma i syllepsa w poezji Stanisława Barańczaka

Author(s): Jerzy Paszek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The present essay is an attempt at an attentive, micrological glance at the poet’sworks, compiled in the volume entitled Wiersze zebrane (Cracow 2006, p. 5–494). The rhetorical figures mentioned in the title concern two syntactic constructions: zeugma – e.g. „czołgi, co łamią śmieszne szlabany i zasady” (sampled in Wiersze zebrane, p. 244), and syllepsis – e.g. the writing on the pub wall: „Piwa i pacierza nie odmawiam”. (M.M. Hurley, D.C. Dennett, R.B. Adams, Jr.: Filozofia dowcipu. Humor jako siła napędowa umysłu. Transl. R. Śmietana. Cracow 2016, p. 233). I come to the conclusion that zeugmas occur already in the first volume of Barańczak (Korekta twarzy [Facial Corrections]), glowing and ruffling (cf. Wiersze, p. 487), up to the last one (Chirurgiczna precyzja [Surgical Precision]). Syllepis is much more infrequent, as it consists in a very sophisticated word‑play (in the aforementioned example‑the ambiguity of the verb „odmawiać” [„to deny”]).I assume that Barańczak’s inspiration – apart from the influence of English metaphysicalpoets translated by him, and also of such great authors like Brodski and Mandelsztam ‑might have been (familiar to him from his early readings), the poem by Miłosz entitled Świty (The Dawns), which begins with such an ambiguous couplet: „Wysoki był dom. W ciemności pełzł (emphasis mine) wielki mur // nad szelest liści u klonów, nad zamęt pośpiesznych nóg”. I think that the young poet was captivated and incited (to action) by the phrase „pełzł wielki mur”, which may signify both the wall fading, going pale (as the night fades away), as well as its moving and crawling. The micrology, therefore, focuses also on words that conceal the abundance of associations, characteristic for the homonyms of the Polish language.

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Świecka modlitwa? Pozdrowienie dla moli? – Jan Zych o poezji

Author(s): Małgorzata Szulc / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Jan Zych was a poet, translator, and copy editor. Auto‑thematic motifs appearingin his works mainly concern two areas. The first is a folk ancestry of poetry, which is frequently referred to by Zych, and which results not only from the poet’s background.The motif of a folk song occurs the most demonstrably in the first volume, although its echo will sound also in the last one. The second area concerns the role of a poet and poetry, to which Zych has an ambivalent attitude. Nevertheless, from volume to volume, he approaches both the words and himself‑the poet with more and more humbleness, even doubt, which is perfectly evidenced by the terse form of his last poems. Referring to lyric poetry as „świecka modlitwa” („a secular prayer”) and „pozdrowienie dla moli” („greetings to moths”) is at the same time referring to its origin and emphasizing his own contradictory attitude towards poetry, with an inclination to downgrading its role.

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Ofiara czy drapieżca? Kobieta-potwór w wybranych powieściach Aleksieja Szołochowa

Author(s): Anna N. Wilk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Anna N. Wilk’s chapter delivers an analysis of novels by Alexei Sholokhov (Tyelo and Podval ) as an example of an updated vision of the dark side of femininity. Over the centuries, women have been accused of having magical abilities. Consequently, their physicality have been viewed as arousing both desire and fear of death, or loss of control over one’s life. Different varieties of female monsters survived in cultures aroundthe world as the antithesis of the usual “human” women, such as, for example, demonic lovers or vindictive, malicious ghosts. Despite the development of civilization and social changes leading to the empowerment of women in family, social, and professional life, the aforementioned concerns are still haunting the collective imagination. In Sholokhov’s novels, “women-monsters” focus their attacks on men, exhibiting outrageous brutality and sadism. Wilk’s analysis allows to demonstrate that the fear of the negative femininity is still an actual, timeless trope in popular culture.

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