ŚLADY ŻONY TŁUMACZA. ALMA CARDELL CURTIN I JEREMIAH CURTIN

• Authors: Jan Rybicki

Title variants

EN

Traces of the Translator’s Wife. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Jeremiah Curtin translated most works by Poland’s first literary Nobel Prize winner, Henryk Sienkiewicz. He was helped in this life-long task by his wife Alma Cardell Curtin. It was also Alma, who, after her husband’s death, produced the lengthy Memoirs she steadfastly ascribed to her husband for his, rather than hers, greater glory. This article investigates the possible textual influences Alma might have had on other works by her husband, including his travelogues, ethnographic and mythological studies, and the translations themselves. Lacking traditional authorial evidence, this study relies on stylometric methods comparing most frequent word usage by means of cluster analysis of z-scores. There is much in this statistics-based authorial attribution to show how Alma Cardell Curtin’s significantly affected at least two other original works of her husband and, possibly, at least two of his translations.

Keywords

EN

cluster analysis; multivariate analysis; authorship attribution; Delta; Cardell; Curtin; Sienkiewicz; stylometry

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(24)
• Pages: 90-110

Dates

online

2011-12-10

Contributors

author

Jan Rybicki

• Instytut Filologii Angielskiej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.11.005.0204