Wiersze dla niegrzecznych dzieci. Danuta Wawiłow i angielskie nursery rhymes (przekłady, inspiracje)

• Authors: Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz

Title variants

EN

Poems for naughty children. Danuta Wawiłow and English nursery rhymes (translations, inspirations)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Among numerous books of poetry for children written by Danuta Wawiłow – famous XXth  century Polish poet and writer – one book is special: Poems for Naughty Children  [Wiersze dla niegrzecznych dzieci] published in 1987. The book is unique not only because of the poetical qualities it represents – rhythmicity, melodiousness, catchiness, melancholy and lyricism equally with pure nonsense, absurdity, grotesque, (black) humour and numerous equivoques and puns, which are characteristic for Wawiłow’s poetical works; above all else Poems for Naughty Children  is a collection of translations of the traditional English nursery rhymes, made by Danuta Wawiłow, who claimed more than once that she was a translator long before she had become a writer. The article aims to explore Wawiłow’s translation work which (up to now) remains almost unknown and un-described in Polish theoretical discourse. Moreover, the author presents the outcome of her research conducted to find “missing originals” of translated nursery rhymes, offers the classification of them and undertakes critical reflection over translation strategy adopted by Danuta Wawiłow.

EN

Among numerous books of poetry for children written by Danuta Wawiłow – famous XXth  century Polish poet and writer – one book is special: Poems for Naughty Children  [Wiersze dla niegrzecznych dzieci] published in 1987. The book is unique not only because of the poetical qualities it represents – rhythmicity, melodiousness, catchiness, melancholy and lyricism equally with pure nonsense, absurdity, grotesque, (black) humour and numerous equivoques and puns, which are characteristic for Wawiłow’s poetical works; above all else Poems for Naughty Children  is a collection of translations of the traditional English nursery rhymes, made by Danuta Wawiłow, who claimed more than once that she was a translator long before she had become a writer. The article aims to explore Wawiłow’s translation work which (up to now) remains almost unknown and un-described in Polish theoretical discourse. Moreover, the author presents the outcome of her research conducted to find “missing originals” of translated nursery rhymes, offers the classification of them and undertakes critical reflection over translation strategy adopted by Danuta Wawiłow.

Keywords

PL

Danuta Wawiłow; Poems for Naughty Children; children’s poetry; nursery rhymes; literary translation

EN

Danuta Wawiłow; Poems for Naughty Children; children’s poetry; nursery rhymes; literary translation; Danuta Wawiłow; Poems for Naughty Children; children’s poetry; nursery rhymes; literary translation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 345-375

Dates

published

2018-10-02

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2018.32.18