TY - JOUR
TI - Catena vs Semantic Dominant, or How to Translate Szymborska
AU - Malina, Dorota
TI - Catena vs Semantic Dominant, or How to Translate Szymborska
AB - 
	This review of Agata Brajerska-Mazur’s Filutka z fi ligranu paraduje w cudzym losie. Wisława Szymborska w anglojęzycznym przekładzie Stanisława Barańczaka i Clare Cavanagh includes a brief presentation of the author’s methodological approach. In particular, it focuses on the catena method which Brajerska-Mazur applies to the analysis of Wisława Szymborska’s poems with a view of producing a translation brief. The brief then is used as a yardstick to assess the quality of Barańczak’s translations. According to the author, the catena method allows her to establish translational proprieties much more objectively than Barańczak’s arbitrary semantic dominant. It is argued that, although the book presents a meticulous overview of the reception and criticism of Szymborska’s poetry, the method applied by the author, contrary to the her claims, is not objective and some of her assessments are arbitrary and prescriptive.
VL - 2014
IS - Issue 28 – Audiodeskrypcja
PY - 2014
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 197
EP - 200
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/katena-czy-dominanta-czyli-jak-amerykanizowac-wislawe
KW - catena method
KW - poetry criticism
KW - poetry translation
KW - quality assessment
KW - semantic dominant
KW - translation brief
KW - Wisława Szymborska
KW - Stanisław Barańczak