Transediting Literature: R.L. Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses in Polish

• Authors: Szymańska, Izabela

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyses the abridged Polish rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection of poems A Child’s Garden of Verses, entitled Czarodziejski ogród wierszy (1992, selected and translated by Ludmiła Marjańska), using André Lefevere’s idea of translators and compilers acting as rewriters in cultural exchange. It argues that the manipulation wit- nessed in preparing the Polish collection can be described as a case of transediting, a no- tion usually applied to news translation not to literary translation. The article considers the interaction of translation, selection, illustrations and editing decisions (such as sequencing poems) in producing a volume that differs significantly from the original. It also consid- ers the possible motifs of the transeditors, including the image of childhood and the child reader. Finally, it touches upon the issue of the impact of this transediting on the Polish reception of the volume.

Keywords

EN

R.L. Stevenson; A Child’s Garden of Verses; manipulation; transediting; image of childhood

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 157-175

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Szymańska, Izabela

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.13

Biblioteka Nauki

888675