Translating Polish Poetry into Scots: An Ethical Question

• Authors: McClure, J. Derrick

Abstracts

EN

Though ideally a translator should have a sound knowledge not only of the language of the source text but of the literary culture from which it has arisen, examples can readily be found of satisfactory poetic translations made by translators with little or no knowledge of the original language. Examples also abound of cases where an inadequate knowledge of the source language has led a translator into errors of interpretation, which may or may not be counterbalanced by felicities of expression in the target-language text. The author’s Scots translations of poems in Polish, a language of which he has only a rudimentary knowledge, are presented and examined as case-studies of the practical and ethical problems of translating from an imperfectly-known language.

Keywords

EN

translation; poetry; Polish language; Scots language; Tadeusz Różewicz; Adam Mickiewicz; Piotr Sommer; Feliks Konarski

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 29/3
• Pages: 177-193

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

McClure, J. Derrick

Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/0860-5734.29.3.14

Biblioteka Nauki

889038