Scholarship on representations of East Asian women has honed on the ubiquity of a ‘geisha’ stereotype in Asian-themed Hollywood films: women who willingly acquiesce to the prerogatives of Western men and, in so doing, symbolically affirm the subordination of East Asian political autonomy to a paternalistic United States. Within this context, the…[Read more]

This paper examines two documentary essays focusing on landmark architecture in the transnational Øresund region comprising Copenhagen and Malmö. I argue that the motif of construction and deconstruction is congruous to our understanding of the ways identities are negotiated vis-à-vis spatial experience. In the lms, the multiple trajectories of…[Read more]

In Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 film The Big Lebowski, The Stranger’s opening voiceover poses the following question: In a world controlled by “I’s,” by states intent upon realizing an extreme freedom through violence, how should the singular person respond?

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Contribution to a series of short academic essays on poetry. Discusses Michael Kandel’s translation of Stanisław Lem’s poem on “Love and Tensor Algebra”, which appears in The Cyberiad. Discusses Kandel’s choice abandon both form and content in order to remain true to the original. Ties this to the poem’s use of mathematical imagery to argue th…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

The article presents the forgotten Romantic English poetess Caroline de Crespigny, her life and works. The analytical part of the paper deals with two minor Neo-Latin lyrics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski translated by de Crespigny and included in her 1844 collection “My Souvenir”.

The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a most proper and correct literary translation. The reader is, after all, offered an opportunity to control t…[Read more]

The article presents various issues connected with cooperation between literary translators and their editors in the process of publication of translations of literary works within the frame of reference of Polish publishing market of the recent decades. The author proposes a list of qualities which should be expected from a good editor of…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

Who Profits from Literary Translation? The article, originally inspired by the studies of Pascale Casanova and Pierre Bourdieu, attempts to answer the question who in Poland profits from literary translation. The concept of “profit” is understood very broadly, both in financial or economic context, and in context of the acquiring and losing cul…[Read more]

Presentation of Polish literary translation market at the end of 2011, a development of the article published in 2000.

The article presents English translations of the religious poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski in the 17th and the 18th century.

The article offers an analysis of a selection of English translations e.g. by Isaac Watts and Francis Mahony, written from the late 17th to the early 19th century, of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s poems referring to Polish-Turkish wars of the early 17th century. The article offers an explanation of the attitudes presented by the translators to the…[Read more]

A study of pravṛtti and nivṛtti in the Sanskrit allegory, Jīvānandanam (“The Joy of Life”).

The article presents historical, literary, religious and political context in which interest in the poetry of the Baroque Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) appeared in the first half of the 18th century among English dissenters and non-conformists. The article concentrates on the best known and most prolific of the six…[Read more]