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• Title:
  “We like to read” by Katherine Mansfield, or online reviews as a starting point for translation criticism
• Creator:
  Jaskuła, Zuzanna
• Description:
  Online reviews grow more and more popular in translation studies. They provide an insight into how a common reader perceives a given text and (sometimes) what they think of the translation. This perspective is still missing in translation criticism. It is partly due to the fact that opinions on translation expressed in book reviews tend to be general, repetitive, or subjective; written with no regard to the original text. This, however, is the way in which most people read books. Incorporating online reviews in translation criticism requires finding patterns in them, trying to understand where they come from and what they really say about the translation. This article presents an analysis that attempts to do just that. It is based on online reviews of “Opowiadania” (“Short Stories”) written by Katherine Mansfield and translated into Polish by Magda Heydel, who also wrote the afterword. Many of the book reviews praise the translation, regarding it as excellent. As for the stories themselves, the reviewers focus mostly on Mansfield’s astute observations, intimate, experimental style and social issues that are still relevant today, i.e., elements that are also discussed in the translator’s afterword. The analysis looks at how these elements are realised in the translation, in comparison with previous Polish renditions of the short stories. It demonstrates that the translator kept the orality (long sentences, colloquialisms) of the stream of consciousness, idiolects and children’s language that characterise Mansfield style, which helps explain some of the general feelings expressed by the reviewers.;
  W artykule przedstawiono analizę tłumaczenia „Opowiadań” Katherine Mansfield, którego autorką jest Magda Heydel. Analiza oparta jest na internetowych recenzjach tomu, które pokazują, jak przekład ten odbierają czytelnicy. Zwracają oni uwagę przede wszystkim na żywy, poetycki język, jakim napisane są opowiadania, oraz wciąż aktualne kwestie społeczne. Porównanie ze starszymi tłumaczeniami pozwala zauważyć, jak Heydel przekłada te elementy, których znaczenie podkreśla także w posłowiu.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Zuzanna Jaskuła
• Date:
  2022.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Rocznik Przekładoznawczy; Nr 17 (2022); 97–114;
  Translation Journal; No. 17 (2022); 97–114;
  2392-1552;
  1896-4362
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/38962/35360
• Subject:
  Katherine Mansfield;
  recepcja tłumaczenia;
  Magda Heydel;
  internetowe recenzje;
  modernizm;
  translation reception;
  online reviews;
  modernism
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/38962
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text