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”.

O krok od nich. Malarska antologia poetów amerykańskich

Author(s): Justyna Budzik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The sketch is dedicated to the anthology of American poets titled O krok od nich, by Piotr Sommer. It is an attempt at a critical commentary to the collection. The author focuses equally on the choice of the 20th century American poetry masters made by the poet‑translator, and on the common thematic denominators that may have affected those very choices. The anthology contains poems by writers coming from a number of poetic schools, yet who all had close connection with New York City. Piotr Sommer presents poets of the so called New York formation, like Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch (New York Poetic School of the 50s), American modernists like Edward Estlin Cummings, the objectivists like Charles Reznikoff, or, last but not least, confessional poets (Robert Lowell). The author of the article focuses on one of the most interesting characteristics of Sommer’s anthology, namely his striving to present American poets’ work in the context of the motif their writing has in common – the city and the urban space. The reproductions of Jane Freilicher’s paintings serve as an original binding material of the whole collection, presented here as a painterly commentary to the lyricism of the American poets of the 20th century.

Antologie jako przestrzeń dyskusji na temat literatury „górskiej”

Author(s): Elżbieta Dutka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is an overview of anthologies with the mountains as key motif, both in the chronological order, and in terms of the problems they tackle. Particular emphasis was put on the function of those publications, as they often prove to be of a somewhat “historical‑literary project” character. Anthologies prepared by such literary theorists as Jacek Kolbuszewski, Michał Jagiełło, Stanisław Jaworski, among others, in fact often become the space for discussion on the very legitimacy of using the term “mountains literature”, its scope and the meaning of this kind of writing.

Dziennikarska „uwertura do życia” czy „literacka strawa przyszłości”? Antologie polskiego reportażu – rekonesans

Author(s): Katarzyna Frukacz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author takes on as a subject the contemporary anthologies of Polish reportage. She divides these into two main categories: collections with a dominant referential function and the ones serving to present various kinds of reportage writing. For the purpose of exemplifying anthologies of the first type she refers to chosen collections dedicated to concrete geographical spaces or historical periods, whereas upon discussing the second, she takes up the issue of the literariness of reportage, often causing discrepancies in classifying reportage texts by the anthologists. An additional issue tackled is the relationship between the contemporary anthology and the canon of the genre, presented in the context of the transformation of the Polish publishing market after 1989. Upon summing up her analysis the author distinguishes two consequences of this process: the publishing of reportages collections under the auspices of “Gazeta Wyborcza” and their turning into interactive messages.

100 / XX. Antologia polskiego reportażu XX wieku pod redakcją Mariusza Szczygła jako opowieść o gatunku i roli pełnionej przez reportera

Author(s): Bernadetta Darska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author takes a look at the media phenomenon of a comprehensive, three volumes anthology of Polish reportage from the 20th century edited by Mariusz Szczygieł. She points to a very contemporary promotion strategy is has been granted as affecting its popularity and the interest in the genre. She also accentuates the particular importance of the role of the editor, who not only made a choice of the reportages included, but also actively promoted the project. Moreover, he wrote the notes of particular reporters and their work, that precede each of the reportages included in the volumes. The above make both reading and discussing the anthology an important reflection on the genre itself and the role played by the editor.

„Walcząc o swoje pisanie, walczę o życie” – o kolekcjach reportaży Melchiora Wańkowicza

Author(s): Beata Nowacka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In her article, the author attempts to describe a few works by Melchior Wańkowicz, a reporter and a writer, best known for his monumental Bitwa o Monte Cassino (The Battle of Monte Cassino). Drawing upon the terminology elaborated by Manfred Sommer, she concludes that, at the final stage of his life, Wańkowicz turns into a “gatherer” who revisits and reorders his earlier writings to compose new collections. Although the reportages in question vary in terms of their artistic quality, the consistency and doggedness of their author who, approaching the end, still deals with his prolific literary output, is striking. For Wańkowicz writing had always been raison d’être, and the sense of the end looming on the horizon contributed largely to rekindling of his creative powers. A tentative hypothesis put forward by the author suggests that the method of composition peculiar to Wańkowicz (a literary mosaic) may be seen as another variant of the anthology.

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.

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.

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.

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.