Polonizing the French? Translinguistic Strategies of Polish-French Transnational Writers in the Romantic Era Cover Image

Poloniser le français ? Les stratégies translinguistiques des écrivains transnationaux polono-français de l’époque romantique
Polonizing the French? Translinguistic Strategies of Polish-French Transnational Writers in the Romantic Era

Author(s): Przemysław Szczur
Subject(s): Cultural history, French Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
Keywords: translingualism; transnationalism; historical novel; Romanticism; Poland; France;

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article proposes an analysis of the phenomenon of “polonisation” of the French language carried out by a group of Polish francophone novelists, who, during the Romantic Era, wrote historical novels devoted to the past of Poland. He proposes to see this phenomenon as an example of translingualism. After having defined this term, the author highlights the links between narration and translation, analyses the motivation of translingualism, examines its conditioning by the narrative context as well as the forms it takes in the texts, the problems it poses and the solutions proposed by novelists to these difficulties of linguistic transfer.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 325-334
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French