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Książka obrazkowa jako przekład intersemiotyczny – "Król Maciuś Pierwszy" w obrazach Iwony Chmielewskiej

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Dybiec-Gajer J.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica

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2022

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nr 17

43-63

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A picturebook as an intersemiotic translation of a source text involves a complex process of negotiating and generating meaning by interpretation, selection and mediation. When there is a considerable time gap between the first publication of the source text and its translation into a new visual modality, additional concerns appear that further complicate the process. To what extent is modernization recommended or needed? How does the unfolding of social practices and historical change affect the generation of meanings? What are the illustrator’s loyalties? The dynamic development of multimodal (polysemiotic) texts leads to the reinterpretation and expansion of Jakobson’s classic category of intersemiotic translation. It is used in the study of visual literature, which raises methodological questions as to whether book illustrating is a translational activity. Today intersemiotic translation seems much closer to adaptation or “resemiotization” (O’Halloran et al. 2016) than to interlingual translation proper. Thus the study of discrepancies, shifts and changes, rather than the pursuit of equivalence, may offer new insights. A case in point is the artistic picturebook Jak ciężko być królem [How Hard It Is to Be a King] (2018) by Iwona Chmielewska, who provides a contemporary visual interpretation of the almost century-old King Matt the First (Król Maciuś Pierwszy) (1923). Written by a Polish-Jewish pedagogue, educator and writer, Janusz Korczak’s poignant and multilayered novel about a child king is a recognizable children’s classic with four English translations available. Drawing on desrciptive translation studies, the aim of the article is to analyze the picturebook at hand as an intersemiotic translation, mapped against the existing translation series. What are its translational and pictorial dominant features? What characterizes the artist’s multimodal strategies in representing the source text? How is the unsettling or ambiguous content mediated? Last but not least, the articles focuses on interdiscursivity to inquire how the societal and institutional context as well as the discourse of memory surrounding Janusz Korczak’s death in the Holocaust affect the meaning and where and how they ‘place’ the author and his child hero.

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TWAINOWSKI BESTSELLER LITERATURY PODRÓŻNICZEJ INNOCENTS ABROAD PO POLSKU – ANALIZA STRATEGICZNA

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Dybiec-Gajer J.

Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ

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2010

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nr 2(24)

327-344

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Mark Twain’s travelogue Innocents Abroad (1869) was the author’s ﬁrst sustained narrative form; it became a great literary and ﬁnancial success during his lifetime. Considered a canonical text of travel writing in English, it was translated into Polish as late as 1992. The article discusses the Polish translation, focusing on the relevant features of the source text: the paratexts and the ‘translational dominant(s)’ that contribute to the original’s popularity. As Innocents Abroad belongs to popular literature, its humor is one of the essential dominants. The analysis demonstrates that the translator made a considerable effort to render the humor of the novel: the differences and compensation strategies result not so much from the differences between the languages and cultures but from the translator’s consistent decisions.

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Parateksty w polskich przekładach powieści Marka Twaina. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer i The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – między pomijaniem a dopisywaniem

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Dybiec-Gajer J.

Między Oryginałem a Przekładem

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2011

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tom 17

54-83

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The article discusses paratexts of Polish translations of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which make up large translation series of respectively 14 and 7 texts. The corpus of the article includes almost all Polish translations of the two novels. The analysis has revealed features characteristic of the paratextual framework of the novels. The most striking one is a nonchalant approach to authorial paratexts, especially to its most significant type such as the preface. While the preface is absent from the majority of the editions of Mark Twain’s Przygody Tomka Sawyera (11 out of 18), none of the Polish renderings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn analyzed includes Twain’s Notice and Explanatory. As for translators’ and editors’ paratexts, they are generally rare and modest; a rich paratextual framework is characteristic of the editions for pupils in the series of „well-prepared reading” (Lektura dobrze opracowana). Most of these paratexts, however, can raise objections due to their quality and pedagogical and didactic usefulness. Summing up, the paratextual framework of the analyzed translations shows that the two novels are in the Polish context addressed almost exclusively to young readers while critical editions are absent. This taps into the reception of Mark Twain in Poland as well as publishing, editorial and marketing practices related to children’s literature, in particular to the obligatory reading from the primary school canon.