Centenarian Weird Fiction from Providence in Contemporary Poland. Translational Models and the Reception of Short Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft – the Case Study of Dagon

• Authors: Arkadiusz Luboń
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the conventional models and translation techniques, which are most common among the Polish translators of the weird fiction by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The proposed classification of such models, aimed at either “popularisation,” “stereotypisation” or “revision” of Lovecraft’s short stories, presents the impact of extra-textual factors (vision of the writer, target group of readers, cultural and political influences) on the content, language and style of translated works by the American author. The comparative analysis takes into consideration one of the early short stories by Lovecraft, Dagon (1917), and its Polish versions by Arnold Mostowicz (1973), Robert Lipski (1994) and Maciej Płaza (2012).

Keywords

EN

translational convention; translational reception; weird fiction; horror novel

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Tematy i Konteksty
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 311-334

Dates

published

2021-02-21

Contributors

author

Arkadiusz Luboń

Identifiers

DOI

10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.17