TY - JOUR
TI - “A favour to Polish literature”. Katherine Mansfield’s Links with Poland
AU - Sobesto, Joanna
TI - “A favour to Polish literature”. Katherine Mansfield’s Links with Poland
AB - 
	The paper presents the Polish circulation of Katherine Mansfield’s poem “To Stanislaw Wyspianski” – her only piece of poetry translated into Polish thus far. Written in 1910, the poem was translated three times: by Floryan Sobieniowski in 1910, by Beata Obertyńska in 1958 and by Zbigniew Lisowski in 1968. The analysis of contexts in which the Polish translations were created, published and republished, along with the interpretation of their paratexts, demonstrates that Polish readers and translators were more interested in Wyspiański – the figure presented in the poem – than in Mansfield herself. Throughout decades, very little attention has been paid to the interpretation of the poem. Polish scholars and literary critics rather investigated the circumstances in which Mansfield encountered Polish culture in general and, in particular, learnt about Wyspiański, the great artist from Kraków. Their convictions and beliefs can fruitfully be interpreted by the Translation History scholar as a sign of changes in the cultural and political situation in Poland. Moreover, the translators’ attitude – especially the one presented by Sobieniowski – can successfully be analyzed from the perspective of Translator Studies.
VL - Issues in English
IS - Special Issue 2019 – Translation History in the Polish Context
PY - 2019
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 63
EP - 80
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.19.004.11262
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/a-favour-to-polish-literature-katherine-mansfields-links-with-poland
KW - Katherine Mansfield
KW - Floryan Sobieniowski
KW - Stanisław Wyspiański
KW - reception
KW - translation history