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• Title:
  "Who Gets Translated and Why? Anthologies of Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry in Poland"
• Creator:
  Kruczkowska, Joanna
• Contributor:
  Leontis, Artemis;
  Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz;
  Dr Joanna Kruczkowska is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Lodz, Poland, and specializes in comparative poetry (Irish, Polish, Modern Greek). After her Ph.D. on Northern Irish and Polish poets in the socio-political context (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle), she has expanded her research with a Modern Greek perspective. Currently, she has been working at the University of Athens on her Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship project on Modern Greek references (ecocriticism; translation and reception, including C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis) in the work of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Zbigniew Herbert.;
  jkruczkowska@hotmail.com
• Description:
  The translation of Modern Greek poetry in Poland began on a regular basis at the end of the 1960s and falls into two broad categories: anthologies and the poetry of Cavafy. Cavafy’s work in Polish rendition must be seen as a separate domain: as in other countries, he has overshadowed the achievements of other Modern Greek poets. There is, however, a significant body of work by other poets available to the reader of Polish in anthologies compiled by prolific and influential translators, whose different backgrounds and motivations generate the question of who has been translated and why. This article demonstrates that the selection of poems and modes of translation are largely driven by extraliterary factors such as sociopolitical conditions, the readership, the publishing market, etc. The resultant Polish texts therefore provide a characteristic example of “rewriting” as defined by André Lefevere.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl ;
  The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date:
  2015.09.02;
  2015;
  2015.05
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Johns Hopkins University Press
• Relation:
  Journal of Modern Greek Studies;;
  33
• Subject:
  Modern Greek poetry in Poland;
  translation;
  Andre Lefevere;
  Nikos Chadzinikolau;
  Zygmunt Kubiak;
  Janusz Strasburger
• Identifier:
  Kruczkowska, Joanna. "Who Gets Translated and Why? Anthologies of Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry in Poland."Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33 (2015): 105–126.;
  0738-1727;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/11624 ;
  1086-3265;
  10.1353/mgs.2015.0015
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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