Wyczekiwana i zapomniana. O Antologii poezji polskiej na obczyźnie 1939–1999 Bogdana Czaykowskiego

Author(s): Janusz Pasterski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the genesis, structure and reception of one of the most interesting anthologies of poetry published after 1989. The author looks back at the attempts at construing similar anthologies of Polish emigration poetry, made already during World War 2, then in the following decades of development of Polish literature abroad. He discusses the early attempts at creating the anthology by Bogdan Czaykowski, then the concept, structure and criteria used to choose the pieces included in his 2002 anthology of Polish poetic texts written in a foreign land between 1939 and 1999 (Antologia poezji polskiej na obczyźnie 1939–1999). The article also discusses the critical reception of the volume and provides an overview of the most important arguments it raised. The conclusion reflects on the diversity of opinions on the anthology, pointing to the controversies it brought as well as to its incontestable merits. Those factors precisely contributed to the anthology, so long awaited by the emigration circles, falling into almost complete oblivion within fifteen years’ time.

Antologie poezji polskiej w Kanadzie (z perspektywy antologisty)

Author(s): Bożena Szałasta-Rogowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents four anthologies of poetry published in the 20th and 21st century in Canada (their contents and reception being discussed), in which poems by the Poles living there have been included. The analysis of the anthologies proves a rather modest presence of the Polish poetry in the field of Anglophone Canadian literature. The collections presented are, however, proof of the willingness to accentuate the presence of the Polish poetry in the Polish circles abroad as well as in the country. The author also announces her own project of an anthology of Polish poetry in Canada, being currently a work in progress, entitled “Objąć cię słowem”.

Classical Utopian Model

Author(s): Rafał Szczerbakiewicz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

A Utopian, a Martyr or a Fool

Author(s): Barbara Klonowska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Fantastyczny tygiel

Author(s): Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The chapter, by Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, explores generic and cultural syncretism in Ben Aaronovitch’s cycle Rivers of London. Having defined urban fantasy, the author proceeds to place emphasis on the overwhelming heterogeneity adapted within the genre, which suggests its openness to various influences, transformations and modifications. In this particular case the elements of urban fantasy and the criminal novel have been successfully incorporated to create a harmonious whole. The cycle also relies on a hybrid ethnic identity of the protagonist and his dialogic relationship with a more experienced wizard, a representative of the former imperial order, to suggest that peaceful cooperation is possible despite differences in ethnic, social and class background. Examining the vision of a city as a melting pot, the author argues that the fantastic level of the text has been construed as just one more component of a multicultural London in which different cultures, nationalities and religions meet. The cycle breaks the predominance of whiteness in the fantasy genre, and introduces instead social and cultural diversity, which reveals the potential of urban fantasy to deal with difficult issues of our times and provide a valid commentary about contemporary reality.

Media w światach dystopijnych

Author(s): Krzysztof Gajewski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Krzysztof Gajewski’s text aims at examining the role of communications media in dystopian fiction stories. First, some terminological conventions are invoked that determine how the notion of dystopia will be understood in this text. The research perspective is the theory of new media. Analyses are carried out on three sample literary works—all regarded as classic dystopian representations—"R.U.R." by Karel Čapek, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "Nineteen Eight-Four" by George Orwell. Additional consideration is given to how media technologies are portrayed in fictional worlds including their functionality. Socio-historical context may also influence the methods in which media technology is presented. The closing statement of the article discerns between the progressive saturation of new communication media within the literary works, herein analyzed, and the parallel processes that lead to the development of real-world communication technology

La canción como discurso ideológico

Author(s): Sabina Deditius / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

This paper analyses a rap song Barras y Estrellas by Nach using Critical DiscourseAnalysis (Van Dijk, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2008) as a theoretical framework with the aim of examining how the ideology is conveyed through the use of language in a song. Author’schoices of words which are empowered by worldviews and ideologies which furthermake decoding the meaning of a song even more complex. Special attention is given tothe lexical choice, theme, semantic strategies, and how these features are skillfully deployedin the song. It is discovered that through an ideologically-driven use of language,the songs echo ethos of combat and prove as an effective tool for social creation of groupidentity.

Carlota, una princesa nacida para gobernar

Author(s): Barbara Obtułowicz / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The present article presents a figure Carlota Amelia Coburg, daughter of King Leopold I of the Belgians, and her exceptional qualities to exercise power. Carlota was the wife of Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venice (1857—1859), emperor of Mexico (1864—1867). Thanks to his father, Leopold I, King of the Belgians, she received an excellent education in all subjects, especially in foreign policy languages, law, and diplomacy. Her role in the history of the Second Mexican Empire is fundamental. It was she who persuaded her husband to accept the Mexican crown and then not allow him to abdicate. During three years of the existence of the Empire, Carlota not only helped Maximilian I to take reins of the state, but also to have real power as regent.

Menos mal, que nos queda… ¿Portugal? Breve historia de las relaciones luso-españolas y su imagen contemporánea en la prensa portuguesa y española

Author(s): Anna Olchówka / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

Various surfaces of Spain-Portugal relations, formed through centuries of coexistence and influences, are still present in our contemporary mass media reality, andmantain some of the most important stereotypes about the rivalry between those twocountries. A short historical summary shows that mutual prejudices exceed the simplestsimplifications of today. For decades Spanish and Portuguese literature is trying to betterunderstand this rebellious Iberian characteristic, its nature and sources. This work willpresent a press image of Spain-Portugal relations and focus on three main subjects ofactuality: politics, economy and sport. The investigated material were press news fromthe most important newspapers (on-line editions) of Spain and Portugal.

¡Arriba España! La imagen de ESPAÑA en los carteles de la propaganda franquista

Author(s): Martyna SOŃTA / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

One of the common manifestations of the Spanish Francoist’s propaganda were posters with a variety of symbols and passwords promoting certain attitudes of society andcreating a whole image of the state. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the propaganda’simage of SPAIN in the context of the nationalist’s ideology camp. The materialfor analysis was selected from agitational posters issued in the era of General Franco’sregime which contain titles and slogans about the Spanish state, including the mostimportant key-words of Francoism. The posters were assigned to different categories, according to the used metaphors, conceptual and imaginative schemes. On this base it waspossible to build up a propaganda’s definition of the state and extract basic features ofthe propaganda’s language. This linguistic analysis refers to the theory of the linguisticpicture of the world by Jerzy Bartmiński.

Corridos y narcocorridos, expresión musical y cultural de México, 1910—2010

Author(s): Maria Carmen Tatay Fernández / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

One of the most popular folk music in Mexico are the ballads or corridos. Two historical periods have been portrayed through this of musical expression: the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the Revolutionary Ballads Corridos Revolucionarios and the Drug Ballads Narcocorridos in the present decades about current events. Both share to be a popularexpression, many times far away from the official interpretation of the events. They havea common language adapted to a similar musical rythm and have been widely adoptedby the Mexican people as their interpretation of historical events.Therefore, I propose to review two key periods in Mexican History, 1910 and 2010 from an academic perspective using these ballads as units of analysis, taking into account their contents (comparing and contrasting between both types of ballads) and their cultural expressions. Let the music to teach us about Mexico!

Traducción y política en la Edad Media: la Consolatio Philosophiae de Boecio y sus versiones hispánicas

Author(s): Antonio Doñas / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

In less than a century, Boethius’ Consolatio Philosophiae was translated into Castilian and into Catalan as many as ten times. Why was this book translated so many timesinto the same languages? There were obviously geographical, social, linguistic, literary,and stylistic considerations, but in this paper I would like to stress the political pressures:in my opinion, two of these versions were composed, at least in part, as an apologiafor, or an expression of exoneration of their dedicatees, the infant James of Majorca andthe Condestable Ruy López Dávalos, presenting them, through the identification withBoethius, as victims of injustice.

El verbo de movimiento andar y sus equivalencias traductoras en polaco: aproximación al estudio contrastivo

Author(s): Monika Głowicka / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The mail objective of this study is to analyze the behavior of the Spanish verb inmotion andar and to compare it with corresponding Polish equivalents. We examine thisunit in terms of comparative method of translation study: we search Spanish sentencesin modern literature, Polish equivalents in translation and describe them with the purposeto reflect the structural differences between Spanish and Polish. We examine themeaning and equivalents in translation of the verb andar when it expresses motion andhas a figurative sense.

¿Intraducible o sin equivalencia? Algunas consideraciones sobre la falta de equivalencia pragmática

Author(s): Maciej Paweł Jaskot / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the following research paper is to give an insight into the issue of the lack of pragmatic equivalence. After recalling the basic principles of equivalence in translation sciences (Jakobson, Nida, Koller), the importance of translation of interlingual andpragmatic senses is underlined. A brief classification of the categories of words that cansuffer from a lack of pragmatic equivalence is presented together with contrastive examplesfrom Polish, Spanish and Russian. The main purpose of the paper is to highlight thedifficulty of translating a lexical unit with the least possible waste of all its meanings,including the pragmatic one.

Antonín Pikhart, el fundador del hispanismo traductivo checo

Author(s): Jana Mrkvová / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Antonín Pikhart, a lawyer by profession, represents an important culturally active figure of the turn of the twentieth century. From the point of view of literary and translation history, his groundbreaking work constitutes his most notable achievement — Pikhart laid the foundations of systematic Czech translations from Spanish, Catalan and partially also Hispanic American literatures. He authored his own texts as well, among which lyrical works and travel and biographical sketches prevail. The analysis of his personal library has yielded many interesting findings reflective not only of its formation and organization but also of Pikhart’s translation work and his relationships with Spanish and Catalan writers. Following the data ascertained during the research of his library, we have also examined Pikhart’s correspondence with selected Spanish authors, included in his personal fund stored in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature in Prague.

Las Postales de España (Španielske pohľadnice) de la escritora eslovaca Zuzka Zguriška en español como un nuevo reto traductológico

Author(s): Cristina Simón Alegre / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

In this paper we approach a work that hasn´t been very studied. The book travelŠpanielske pohľadnice (1931) by the Slovak writer Zuzka Zguriška is a portrait of Spain inthe 20 years of XX century. This book has not been translated into any foreign language.We analyze the problem of translation of some Czech words into Spanish in the chapter“En Madrid” of the Spanish postcards. We explain the situation of the Slovak languagein the interwar period to contextualize the problem around the Czech words and analyzetheir translation process into Spanish language.

Al margen de la recepción recíproca de las teorías de la traducción checa e hispana

Author(s): Petra Vavroušová / Language(s): Spanish Publication Year: 0

At present, Translation Studies are undergoing methodological innovation that brings, among other things, the study of areas that were forgotten until recently or not discovered at all. The objective lies in presenting modern concepts of Spanish, Latin American and Czech origin, using the following lines of investigation as a basis: 1) Sedm tváří translatologie [Seven faces of Translation Studies] introduces new concepts and methods studied in the Iberian Peninsula; 2) Překlad a tlumočení jako most mezi kulturami [Translation and interpreting as a bridge between cultures] presents tendencies in Latin America; 3) Jiří Levý: Una concepción (re)descubierta [Jiří Levý: a (re)discovered conception] introduces Levý’s innovative concepts to the Spanish speaking world. The methodology lies in selecting and translating the most representative texts by contemporary Spanish and Latin American translation scholars and by Levý in their respective languages, thus making a contribution to the exchange between Czech and Hispanic theories.

"Ikaromenippos" – starożytny dialog o locie na Księżyc i do niebiańskiej siedziby bogów

Author(s): Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda’s chapter proposes an analysis of the Ikaromenippos or Voyage in Space, which is one of dialogues of Lucian of Samosata and probably the first literary description of the human trip to the Moon. The main character takes on this journey because of his aversion to philosophy. Lucian’s Ikaromenippos is a fantastic dialogue: a philosopher, probably the cynic, and satirist Menippus of Gadara, flies here “through the stars”. He takes two wings of large birds: the wing of the vulture and the wing of the eagle, and performs an incredible feat, worthy of Icarus: he reaches the Moon (from where he looks at the people and their actions on Earth), and then flies to Heaven—to the gods, “in upper Zeus’ rooms”. The story of Menippus’journey is like a swift current of the river, full of jocular tone, with a fantastic plot. But it clearly carries a deeper message: it expresses criticism of human attitudes and actions (adulteries, murders, conspiracies, perjury, betrayals among the closest to ones, war, courtship, piracy), meanness, false and mercenary piety, especially when stigmatizing bad behavior of philosophers, without sparing the representatives of any philosophical school. According to Lucian’s narrative, philosophers are lazy, quarrelsome, bloated, angry, grotesque, tumultuous, surly, unworthy people. The author reinforces the accusations of philosophers with the deity’s words, as the goddess of the Moon, Selene, having been encountered by the traveler, complains about them as well. She believes that philosophers are impostors, leading a shameful nightlife behind the scenes: they commit adultery, steal, and commit any other evil deeds. Ikaromenippos belongs to Lucian’s satirical works featuring reflective comedy. Correspondingly, Lucian postulates the liberation from the practical cognitive pressure of the logical rules and from the philosophical logic of cognition of the universe.

Ofiara czy drapieżca? Kobieta-potwór w wybranych powieściach Aleksieja Szołochowa

Author(s): Anna N. Wilk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Anna N. Wilk’s chapter delivers an analysis of novels by Alexei Sholokhov (Tyelo and Podval ) as an example of an updated vision of the dark side of femininity. Over the centuries, women have been accused of having magical abilities. Consequently, their physicality have been viewed as arousing both desire and fear of death, or loss of control over one’s life. Different varieties of female monsters survived in cultures aroundthe world as the antithesis of the usual “human” women, such as, for example, demonic lovers or vindictive, malicious ghosts. Despite the development of civilization and social changes leading to the empowerment of women in family, social, and professional life, the aforementioned concerns are still haunting the collective imagination. In Sholokhov’s novels, “women-monsters” focus their attacks on men, exhibiting outrageous brutality and sadism. Wilk’s analysis allows to demonstrate that the fear of the negative femininity is still an actual, timeless trope in popular culture.

Gotyckie figuracje Innego a problem winy, przemocy i braku solidarności w powieści "Przeklęci" Joyce Carol Oates

Author(s): Magdalena Łachacz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the chapter, Magdalena Łachacz proposes an in-depth analysis of the spectral characters of the child/woman and the bridegroom. These ghostly spectres make abrupt appearances at critical moments of the narrative set in the the Princeton community during the cusp year of 1905 into 1906 following traumatic and haunting events. The objectice of the introduction chapter is to place the novel within the confines of the American gothic genre with typical gothic motives. This particular genre delivers a disturbing experience with the dark and obscure aspects of American history with particular interest in the institution of slavery and its problems of racial and sexual abuse. In relation to the aesthetics of the American gothic, it is conceivable to associate the specters in Oates’ novel with the demonic protagonists of Charles Brockden Brown’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fictional works—both pivotal writers of the genre. Hence there exists the possibility of looking at the spectre as the representation of the “Other” in typical American gothic oeuvres. Furthermore, one can perceive the relationship between the experiences of the “otherness” and the problem of guilt suffered by the protagonists of the privileged social class. Consequently, the scope of the analysis finds itself engrossed on the issue of the traumatic repressed experiences that may return by republication of postmodern slave narratives. Therefore, the question of language becomes imminent for the gothic-like representation of the figure of the “Other” in Oates’s novel. Nevertheless the text is permeated by cognitive pessimism. “The Accursed” seem to establish, thanks to the gothic convention, an idiosyncratic language capable of expressing the terror of the violent experiences within a community environment where there is a lack of solidarity with the victims. In effect, Oates’s novel can be approached as a step towards the aesthetic characterization of the “Other” in the recounting of the “unspoken crime” which remains the spectre that continues to haunt contemporary American culture.