Object's details: Translator’s biography and microhistory: A contribution to the history of the literary translator

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Title:
Translator’s biography and microhistory: A contribution to the history of the literary translator
Creator:
Siwek, Karolina
Description:
Microhistory is the historiographical practice of examining a single element in order to elude generalisation and enable more general phenomena to be specified. The single element can be an individual/a person, but also a small collective. The author considers whether this is a method that can be applied to the study of a literary translator. Existing biographies of translators were used to reconstruct a microhistory of Polish translators of Hamlet active between 1797 and 1939. The reconstruction of the microhistory was further enabled by methods used to describe translators’ biographies developed by the sociology of translation. The application of two methods allowed to reconstruct the image of the translator of Hamlet into Polish in the nineteenth century, and to determine his parameters such as gender (male), origin (landed gentry), social ambitions (desire for social advancement into the intelligentsia class), education (educated person), passions (a person writing his own literary texts), profession and source of livelihood (not treating translation activity as the main source of income). The usage of microhistory for Translation Studies is helpful to identify trends prevailing in the translation field and situations common to translators working in the same time frame and geographical-historical space. At the same time, the con- clusions obtained allowed to complement the general history of literary translation in Poland and contribute to the separation of the history of the literary translator in Poland.;
Mikrohistoria jest praktyką historiograficzną mającą na celu zbadanie elementu indywidualnego, tak aby dopełnić historię ogólną o fakty i wnioski, które mogły zostać poddane nadmiernej generalizacji lub zostać pominięte przy badaniach ogólnych wątków historycznych. Autorka podejmuje rozważania, czy jest to metoda możliwa do wykorzystania w badaniach nad tłumaczem literackim. Do zrekonstruowania mikrohistorii polskich tłumaczy Hamleta pracujących w latach 1797-1939 wykorzystane zostały istniejące już biografie translatorskie. Dzięki wspólnym wytycznym, według których powstały, możliwe stało się ich porównywanie i analizowanie. To z kolei pozwoliło odpowiedzieć na pytanie, kim jest dziewiętnastowieczny tłumacz Hamleta.
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free access
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 Karolina Siwek;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
Date:
2024.04.28
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
Polish
Source:
Rocznik Przekładoznawczy; Nr 18 (2023); 115–131;
Translation Journal; No. 18 (2023); 115–131;
2392-1552;
1896-4362
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/41477/38401
Subject:
microhistory;
literary translator;
translator’s biography;
Hamlet;
nineteenth century;
mikrohistoria;
tłumacz literacki;
biografia translatorska;
dziewiętnasty wiek
Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/41477
Data provider:
Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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