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Censorship, Translation and English Language Fiction in People’s Poland
This book studies the influence of censorship on the selection and translation of English language fiction in the People’s Republic of Poland, 1944-1989. It analyses the differences between originals and their translations, taking into account the available archival evidence from the files of Poland’s Censorship Office, as well as the wider social and historical context. The book examines institutional censorship, self-censorship and such issues as national quotas of foreign literature, the varying severity of the regime, and criticism as a means to control literature. However, the emphasis remains firmly on how censorship affected the practice of translation. Translators shaped Polish perceptions of foreign literature from Charlie Chan books to Ulysses and from The Wizard of Oz to Moby-Dick. But whether translators conformed or rebelled, they were joined in this enterprise by censors and pulled into post-war Poland’s cultural power structures.
Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA
Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA is a collection of twelve chapters, reporting on research results and presenting theoretical insights into the processes of language acquisition. The first part outlines the neurobiological processes which assist formation of additional language in the brain, while the second part offers psycholinguistic modelling of a number of components of second language competence.
Translation Under Communism
This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control over cultural exchange is strategically important, so studying these regimes from the perspective of translation can provide a unique insight into their history and into the nature of their power. This book is intended as a sister volume to Translation Under Fascism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and adopts a similar approach of using translation as a lens through which to examine history. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, it will appeal to students and scholars of translation studies, translation history, censorship, translation and ideology, and public policy, as well as cultural and literary historians of Eastern Europe, Soviet communism, and the Cold War period.
Redefining the Fringes in Celtic Studies
The book is a collection of essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world. By bringing together heterogeneous but at the same time fresh insights into diverse areas of Celtic scholarship, this volume aims to invite further research in the fields probed by the contributors in their chapters.
Ve světle kabaly
Kniha mapuje reflexi židovské religiózní a mystické tradice v polské meziválečné literatuře, a to na příkladu tří autorů, kteří reprezentují odlišné způsoby jak vnímání vlastních židovských kořenů, tak zpracování tradičních motivů vycházejících z židovské mystiky. Prvotně futurista Aleksander Wat se vůči židovské religiózní tradici kriticky vymezuje – a přesto nedokáže vlastnímu „židovství“ uniknout; prozaik Bruno Schulz předestírá čtenářům svébytnou vizi kosmogonie i eschatologie upomínající mimo jiné na vybrané koncepty kabaly; básník Bolesław Leśmian má k této tradici nejdále a motivy interpretovatelné v kontextu židovské religiózní tradice podrobuje originálnímu přepracování. Tvorbou všech tří – jako dědiců „národa Knihy“ – přitom prolíná specifický vztah k jazyku a psanému slovu. Vedle toho je věnována pozornost např. motivu golema, stvoření světa či představě Boha.
