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Publication date: 05.09.2012
Przekładaniec, Issues in English, Issue 24/2010 – Feminism and translation, pp. 89 - 109
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864ePC.12.005.0567Authors
The Translator’s Wife’s traces. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin
Jeremiah Curtin translated most works by Poland’s first literary Nobel Prize winner, Henryk Sienkiewicz. He was helped in this life-long task by his wife Alma Cardell Curtin. It was Alma who, after her husband’s death, produced the lengthy Memoirs she steadfastly ascribed to her husband for his, rather than hers, greater glory. This paper investigates the possible textual influences Alma might have had on other works by her husband, including his travelogues, ethnographic and mythological studies, and the translations themselves. Lacking traditional authorial evidence, this study relies on stylometric methods comparing most frequent word usage by means of cluster analysis of z-scores. There is much in this statistics-based authorial attribution to show how Alma Cardell Curtin affected at least two other original works of her husband and, possibly, at least two of his translations as well..
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The Translator’s Wife’s traces. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin
The Translator’s Wife’s traces. Alma Cardell Curtin and Jeremiah Curtin
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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