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Translations of books for children and young adults in Poland 1918-1939 (a research reconnaissance

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Staniów B., Kisilowska M.

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi

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2019

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vol. Tom specjalny: Dla Niepodległej / Special Issue: For an Independent Poland

309-324

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Based on the bibliography method (mainly Bibliografia literatury dla dzieci i młodzieży 1918-1939. Literatura polska i przekłady, by B. Krassowska i A. Grefkowicz, Warszawa, 1995), the article presents the extent of foreign literature for young people translated into Polish, edited in Poland in 1918-1939. The most popular languages, literary genres, bestseller authors and titles, the intensity of publishing in periods, the biggest publishers, and the most popular series are analyzed. Besides classics, many foreign light titles were published, because of the lack of such literature in the Polish book market. They were attacked by literary critics and educators, but very widely-read in fact. The abundance and variety of foreign literature for children and young adults in 1918-1939 are emphasized. Language mosaic and author-subject diversity of these books had never been repeated after World War II, mainly due to political reasons.

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Najstarsze tłumaczenia tekstów biblijnych na język kaszubski

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Sikora A. R.

Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne

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2008

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issue 22

55-65

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This paper discusses translations of biblical passages into Kashubian which originated in Evangelical circles between the 16lh and 19th centuries. Although the tradition of translation dates back to the 16th century, translation of the entire Bible, or at least one complete biblical book, which would have originated in this particular environment has not been preserved. Presumably it never existed. The oldest translations of biblical texts into Kashubian were generally based on the German language. The first printed book with texts in Kashubian included, among others, eleven works defined as Psalms and a range of short passages originating both from the Old Testament and the New Testament. This very book was the Simon Krofey’s Hymnal published in Gdańsk in 1586. Translation of The Small Catechism of Martin Luther came out approximately half a century later, and similarly to the Krofey’s Hymnal it included many biblical passages. However, the biggest collection of biblical texts which has survived is dated for the turn of the 17th and 18* centuries. These texts are found in the so-called Smoldzinian Perikopes, containing lessons and Gospels for all Sundays and church holidays. Many smaller passages of the older translation of biblical texts represent only occasional translations of biblical passages incorporated in other religious texts. The first intended and methodical translation of texts from the Sacred Scripture into Kashubian was the collection of so-called Smoldzinian Perikopes. Research conducted on these translations allows to conclude that although authors of these translations did not translate from original texts, but in most cases from the German language, their translations of the Bible are characterised by a high degree of faithfulness to the thought of original texts. Moreover, accuracy and efforts to make the texts comprehensible and literary beautiful grant their authors the best testimony.

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O przekładach literatury polskiej w Czechach i czeskiej w Polsce. Komentarz do bibliografii przekładów w 2016 i 2017 roku

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Altmann J.

Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

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2019

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vol. 9

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issue 3

95-114

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Presented article is a recapitulation of visible tendencies in both Polish and Czech publishing markets with regard to publications of literary translations of Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017. It presents the most important literary translations in each language pair, pointing out leading publishers and the most active translators in this area. Finally, the author outlines general paths along which the Polish literature translations in the Czech Republic and vice versa develop.

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Kafkovy překlady za života (1909-1922)

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Soukup J., Szarková S., Mittnerová L.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2015

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vol. 63

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issue 5

672-706

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Simone de Beauvoir: "Druhé pohlaví" - a kletba překladu

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Pichová D.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 2

241-250

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The article deals with a Czech, a Slovak and two English translations of Simone de Beauvoir’s work The Second Sex (Le deuxième sexe, 1949). The first English translation (1953), as well as the Czech (1966) and Slovak (1967) versions, were selective; the only complete translation is the second English translation (2009). However, even this complete English version is considered problematic by the academic public. A comparative analysis of the four translations of The Second Sex presents the choices made by different translators and illustrates the impact of the (incomplete and/or erroneous) translations on the general reception of Simone de Beauvoir’s work.

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Cette étude propose une comparaison des traductions tchèque et slovaque et de deux traductions anglaises du chef-d’oeuvre de Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe (1949). La première traduction anglaise (1953), ainsi que les versions tchèque (1966) et slovaque (1967) sont partielles. La seule traduction intégrale étant la deuxième traduction anglaise de 2009. Mais elle est également considérée comme problématique par les spécialistes. L’analyse comparative des différentes traductions du Le deuxième sexe indique d’autres procédés de traduction et montre l’influence des traductions (non intégrales et/ou fautives) sur la réception de l’oeuvre de Simone de Beauvoir en tant que telle.

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Plauto senza frontiere. Il “Miles gloriosus” nelle traduzioni

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Krauze J.

Studia Ełckie

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2021

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vol. 23

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issue 4

525-534

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The works of Titus Maccius Plautus and his lively and picturesque language (sermo famialiaris full of archaisms and colloquialisms but in perfect harmony with the metric norms), were characterized by a conspicuous presence of loans from the Greek language and rhetorical figures aimed at highlighting the bizarre traits of the characters and over the centuries they have been a challenge for translators from all over the world. The secret of his success that breaks down times and frontiers consist in the richness and originality of his language that continues to influence every form of artistic expression. In this article the Italian versions that range from the seventeenth to the twentieth century are examined, focusing on the versions of Lodovico Dolce and Pier Paolo Pasolini, mentioning some Polish translations of the work of Plautus (Jan Szczepan Wolfram, Gustaw Przychocki, Zygmunt Węclewski) and coming to the conclusion that the result of the translation of classical texts should be a reasonable balance between those two poles that are called the ancient and the modern.

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Note su Foscolo e la lingua inglese (1816–1827)

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Caselli C. P.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2019

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issue 2

181-190

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Notes on Foscolo and the English language (1816–1827) – Foscolo never managed to master his host country’s language during his years of exile in London (1816–1827). The vast production of his English years consists almost entirely of works intended to be translated by other people and thus to be considered as provisional drafts. In this paper, the relationship between Foscolo and the English language is analysed and discussed, focusing in particular on his interactions with his translators and on his linguistic vision.

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Arabic-Polish Language Contacts – an Overview

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Górska E.

Folia Orientalia

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2018

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vol. Bibliotheca

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issue vol.1

49-59

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The purpose of the paper is the attempt to point one of the most important aspects of the cultural contact of the Poland and Arabic countries with the consideration of the historical perspective. The author assumes that the language is the basic carrier of such contacts and also the main area of the mutual influences. Therefore, she discusses the Arabic and Polish relations mostly on the level of the translation of the literary and scientific output of both sides, as well as the linguistic interference mainly in the aspect of the lexical borrowings. The author quotes many examples of such linguistic contacts and underlines their great meaning in the existence and development of other types of relations: political, commercial, and cultural.

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Lauda Sion, Salvatorem Sequence and its Polish Translations in the Source Songbooks

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Garnczarski S.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2020

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vol. 11

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issue 2

219-253

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Research on the sequence Lauda Sion, Salvatorem dedicated to the Corpus Christi ceremony, allowed us to find and analyze over a dozen translations into Polish of this 13th century Latin pattern. It consists of 12 pairs of stanzas, with their parity – according to the poetics of the sequence – is emphasized by the conformity of a sound of the final verses of each pair of the stanza and the remaining verses are connected by adjoining rhymes, usually feminine, accurate, with aab + ccb scheme. We know most translators by name: Stanisław Grochowski, Jan Białobocki, Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński, Father Ignacy Hołowiński, Father Tadeusz Karyłowski, Jadwiga Gamska-Łempicka, Leopold Staff, several translations are anonymous. All Polish translations agree with the original on the content. However, differences appear in the form, structure of the poetic sequence, number of stanzas and in metrics. The common knowledge of the sequence Lauda Sion, Salvatorem, was probably the fruit of the great Eucharistic devotion in Poland, which was marked already in the 13th century, when the Church introduced the feast of Corpus Christi and lasted for the next centuries, up to the 20th century.

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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral”. A Conversation with Marek Bieńczyk on Milan Kundera’s Works (Conducted by Olga Żyminkowska)

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Bieńczyk M., Żyminkowska O.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 8

421-433

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The interview with Marek Bieńczyk covers, in general, the subject of the philosophy of novel by Milan Kundera and the reception of his works nowadays in Poland and abroad. Marek Bieńczyk – the French translator of Milan Kundera’s novels – talks about the history of his first translations and the beginnings of scientific thinking about Kundera. Moreover, he explains the problems connected with Kundera’s authorial and elaborate philosophy of novel: the conception of narrator, hero and composition. Bieńczyk also narrates his own memories with M. Kundera. What is more, he indicates the inspirations he draws in his own work from innovative prose by Czech novelist, who is celebrating his 91st anniversary this year.

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The Qur’ān in Medieval Slavic Writings. Fragmentary Translations and Transmission Traces

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Brzozowska Z. A., Leszka M. J.

Vox Patrum

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2022

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vol. 83

367-412

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The Qur’ān was never translated into Church Slavic in its entirety; still, in the writings of some mediaeval Christian authors (Byzantine and Latin) quite extensive quotations and borrowings from it can be found. Many of these texts were transmitted in the Slavia Orthodoxa area. The aim of this article is to present the Church Slavic literary sources which contain quotations from the Qur’ān. The analysis covers Slavic translations of Byzantine and Latin authors as well as original texts of Slavic provenance. The main conclusion of the research is that only ca. 2% of the text of the Qur’ān has been preserved in the Church Slavic material.

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Poezija kao prostor intimnog i javnog

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Gverić Katana P.

Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich

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2019

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vol. 9

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issue 3

59-72

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The article gives a brief overview of translated Polish literature in Croatia in 2017 and considers the visibility of Polish poetry in a body of literary works translated after 1990, focusing on contemporary phenomena such as poetry in new media and the place it takes in the contemporary reception.

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Apokryficzne Proroctwo o Chrystusie w pogańskiej świątyni boga Apollona i jego znaczenie dla badań nad związkami literatury ruskiej z Bałkanami

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Stradomski J.

Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej

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2019

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vol. Вѣнецъ хваленїѧ. Studia ofiarowane profesorowi Aleksandrowi Naumowowi na jubileusz 70-lecia

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issue 10

85-100

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The “Tale Afroditian” is one of the most popular Christian Biblical apocrypha in the Byzantine-Slavic literature. In the Medieval Cyrillic manuscripts, it is accompanied by a brief text entitled “Prophecy About Christ in the Pagan Temple of Apollo.” There are assumptions that both texts have a common origin, even though the Greek text of the “Prophecy” has not been found to date. Thanks to the analysis of several copies of the “Prophecy”, it is possible to reconstruct the common history of both apocrypha in the Church-Slavonic literature, which once again confirms durable relations of the literature of the former Ruthenia with the Balkans. Copies of both apocrypha from the handwritten “Bonarówka Code” are very helpful in re-tracing some unclear moments in the textology of the “Tale of Afroditian” and the “Prophecy About Christ”.

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Five Centuries of Bible Translations into Kashubian

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Sikora A. R.

Verbum Vitae

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2021

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vol. 39

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issue 4

1175-1192

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This paper discusses translations of biblical passages into Kashubian, which originated in the Lutheran circles between the 16th and the 19th centuries, followed by translations made in the Catholic circles in the 20th and the 21st centuries. The history of these translations has been divided into two periods: “old translations” and “contemporary translations.” The former comprise various bibli[1]cal texts preserved in manuscripts and printed monuments, which came into being between 1586 and the second half of the 19th century. The fundamental texts of this period include the works by Szymon Krofey (1586), Michał Pontanus (1643), and Perykopy smołdzińskie (1699–1701). The old translations were done from German in the Protestant circles in West Pomerania. In turn, the “contemporary trans[1]lations” of biblical texts into Kashubian embrace translations from the second half of the 20th century, which were produced in the Catholic environment of Gdańsk Pomerania: from Latin (Mk 4:3-20) by Alojzy Nagel (1973), from Latin (four Gospels) by Rev. Franciszek Grucza (1992), from Polish (the New Testament and the Psalms) by Eugeniusz Gołąbek (1993–2007) and my own translations from Hebrew and Greek (the Four Gospels, the Pentateuch, Ecclesiastes) prepared in 2001–2020.

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Вопреки тому времени… Отец и сын Фаддей Францевич Злинский и Адриан Иванович Пиотровский

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Śmiechowicz O.

Classica Cracoviensia

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2015

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issue 18

391-412

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The present paper analyses how the biography of Tadeusz Zielinski, one of the most famous Polish classicists, was influenced by the history of Poland, Russia and Germany. (He was living in Sanct-Petersburg, Leipzig and Warsaw.) On the basis of his Autobiography and Diary I am trying to seek his real personality apart from the common knowledge about the famous scholar with outstanding publications and thousands of students. In his private papers Zielinski had openly described his “colorful” student life and love affairs, but he concealed his illegitimate children… One of them – Adrian Petrovsky – was a classicist, translator and dramatist. He was the first translator who translated all Aristophanic Comedies into Russian (1934 – first edition). After the premiere of the ballet The Limpid Stream (with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, libretto by Petrovsky), censors banned the piece and Petrovsky was attacked in a “Pravda” editorial. Shortly after that he was arrested by the NKVD (November 1937) and shot in prison (15 November 1937).

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The Reception of Galician Performances and (Re)translations of Shakespeare

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Lorenzo-Modia M. J.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2017

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vol. 16

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issue 31

75-88

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This presentation will deal with the reception of performances, translations and retranslations of Shakespeare’s plays into the Galician language. As is well-known, Galician is a Romance language which historically shared a common origin with Portuguese in the Iberian Peninsula, and which had a different evolution due to political reasons, i.e. the independence of Portugal and the recentralization of Spain after a long partition with the so called Catholic monarchs. As a consequence, Galician ceased to be the language of power and culture as it was during the Middle Ages, and was spoken by peasants and the lower classes in private contexts for centuries. With the disappearance of Francoism in the 1970s, the revival of Galician and its use as a language of culture was felt as a key issue by the Galician intelligentsia and by the new autonomous government formed in 1981. In order to increase the number of speakers of the language and to give it cultural respectability, translations and performances of prominent playwrights, and particularly those by Shakespeare were considered instrumental. This article will analyse the use of Shakespeare’s plays as an instrument of gentrification of the Galician language, so that the association with Shakespeare would confer a marginalized language social respectability and prestige.

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Příhody Václava Vratislava z Mitrovic a jejich osudy v české literární historii

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Matějec T.

Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)

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2014

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vol. 6

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issue 2

147-154

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This paper analyses the history, publication and aesthetic evaluation of Příhody (Events) by Václav Vratislav of Mitrovice, early modern Czech literary document thematically associated with the Turkish wars.

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Wpływ anglojęzycznych tłumaczeń literatury grozy w 1990–1995 na kształtujące się po 1989 roku polskie realizacje gatunku

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Mazurkiewicz A.

Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich

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2025

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vol. 68

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issue 1

33-52

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The article is devoted to the formation of a new horizon of expectations towards horror literature, which appeared on the literary market and was influenced by translations between the years 1989–1995. At the same time, it was a period of economic transformation from an economic model of top-down control to one subordinated by the rules of the free market, in which the book(resp. literature) became a commodity, subordinated like any other to the market mechanisms of supply and demand. As a result, the book market was dominated by books that were not always artistically valuable, but widely read (this explains the popularity of second-rate authors in Poland, who had their own publishing series in publishing houses).The beginning of the transformation in the understanding of the essence of horror fiction was associated with the appearance on the Polish book market of translations from English-language literature, which dominated popular literature of the time. Even then, it was also possible to notice that the translations - dominating the readers’ stock market - could not be reduced to a single, dominant concept of horror fantasy. This is because it appeared on the Vistula with the following problematic and thematic trends: (1) emphasizing corporeality as a source of horror, resulting from the “adventures of the body” - both non-normative, disciplined, and subjected to variously motivated interference; (2) emphasizing the uncanny as an immanent feature of existence; (3) problematizing the issue of the species hegemony of man treated in traditional culture as the “crown of creation”; (4) rooted in locality and finding sources of horror in it. The problematic and thematic trends of horror stories listed here, which can be found in the translations from 1989–1995, dominated Polish literature to such an extent that it - insofar as it appeared on the readers’ market - copied proven (in terms of plot, but also marketing) patterns, inspired by Western translations.

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Lauda Sion, Salvatorem Sequence and its Polish Translations in the Source Songbooks

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Garnczarski S.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2020

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vol. 11

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issue 2

219-253

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Research on the sequence Lauda Sion, Salvatorem dedicated to the Corpus Christi ceremony, allowed us to find and analyze over a dozen translations into Polish of this 13th century Latin pattern. It consists of 12 pairs of stanzas, with their parity – according to the poetics of the sequence – is emphasized by the conformity of a sound of the final verses of each pair of the stanza and the remaining verses are connected by adjoining rhymes, usually feminine, accurate, with aab + ccb scheme. We know most translators by name: Stanisław Grochowski, Jan Białobocki, Stanisław Serafin Jagodyński, Father Ignacy Hołowiński, Father Tadeusz Karyłowski, Jadwiga Gamska-Łempicka, Leopold Staff, several translations are anonymous. All Polish translations agree with the original on the content. However, differences appear in the form, structure of the poetic sequence, number of stanzas and in metrics. The common knowledge of the sequence Lauda Sion, Salvatorem, was probably the fruit of the great Eucharistic devotion in Poland, which was marked already in the 13th century, when the Church introduced the feast of Corpus Christi and lasted for the next centuries, up to the 20th century.

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List Niccola Perottiego, przekład zbiorowy pod redakcją Pauliny Piotrowskiej

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Piotrowska P.

Terminus

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2014

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vol. 16

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issue 4(33)

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A letter by Niccolò Perotti This paper is dedicated to a letter that Niccolò Perotti wrote to a friend. It is divided into two parts. The first part is an introduction to the letter. It presents an autobiography of the Renaissance humanist with special emphasis placed on his translations of ancient Greek texts into Latin. Jean-Louis Charlet, the leading researcher on the Italian’s works, highlights the importance of this particular letter for establishing the chronology of translations and Perotti’s other works, as well as his date of birth and other major events in his life. The introduction also discusses the epistolary art, which Perotti practiced and whose grammatical rules he wrote down so he could study them. Next, the author considers the subject matter of the letter, which oscillates between the notions of vera nobilitas and homo novus. Perotti decides to give himself over to literary activities and he substantiates his choice in a form of examination of conscience. For him as a humanist, who often avails himself of quotes from Pliny the Younger, true nobility arises out of the virtues of reason and is not based on material goods. In his deliberations, Perotti follows such remarkable minds as Petrarch, Poggio Bracciolini and Buonaccorso da Montemagno. He quotes Petrarch on the magnitude of human thought, Bracciolini on the threats arising from the desire for wealth, and Montemagno on the true source of nobility lying in virtue and a person’s work, but not in the right of inheritance. Finally, these thoughts are collated with the Stoic philosophy of Epictetus. Having translated Encheiridion, Perotti filled his epistolary confessions with an echo of the Stoic’s teachings. These mostly concern taking care of one’s soul and not becoming attached to material goods, obtained by twist of fate. In the second part, the author presents a collective translation of the discussed letter, preserved in manuscript in the Vatican Library (Vat. lat. 3027, f.115r–f.118r). It is a very important autobiographical document that allows the reader to look upon Perotti’s work in the context of the popularization of ancient Greek thought, as well as to his motivations and the internal dilemmas that were entailed in this undertaking.

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Translations of books for children and young adults in Poland 1918-1939 (a research reconnaissance

Najstarsze tłumaczenia tekstów biblijnych na język kaszubski

O przekładach literatury polskiej w Czechach i czeskiej w Polsce. Komentarz do bibliografii przekładów w 2016 i 2017 roku

Kafkovy překlady za života (1909-1922)

Simone de Beauvoir: "Druhé pohlaví" - a kletba překladu

Plauto senza frontiere. Il “Miles gloriosus” nelle traduzioni

Note su Foscolo e la lingua inglese (1816–1827)