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]

An examination of the discursive interplay about politics, religion, and medicine in a 17th-18th cent. Sanskrit allegory, Jivanandanam (“The Joy of Life”).

The articles concentrates on issued connected with the cooperation between literary translators and their editors. The issue of training for the job of editors as well as possible problems are presented and discussed in detail.

The article offers an analysis of Polish translations of the novels ‘King’ and ‘Snow White’ by Donald Barthelme in view of the concepts proposed by Lawrence Venuti. (In Polish)

„Polish Literary Translation in Free Market Economy. A Subjective, Provocative and Partial Approach” – a brief account of the situation of Literary Translation in Poland after 1989. The article offers an overview of the situation of literary translation in Poland in the decade following the political and economic changes of 1989. Published in: ‘Pr…[Read more]

The article comments upon the existing Polish translation of the novels of Donald Barthelme – The King and Snow White – from the point of view of Venutian theory of translation.

The paper was presented during The 1st International Conference in Translation Studies – Translatingthe Untranslatable in Gdańsk (24-26.03.1999). Its expanded and…[Read more]

The article discusses various translation problems connected with the Polish translation of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.

More Info: Przekładaniec. A Journal of Literary Translation. No 5 (spring-summer 1999), Kraków pp. 71-79.