Issue: 9 (1)/2018

Why do we translate? The practice, theory and metatheory of translation

In Volume 9, Part 1, of the journal „Translations of Slavic Literatures” is devoted to the broadly understood problem of the purpose of translation. The collected works give various thematic and methodological answers to the question formulated in the title of the issue „Why do we translate”?, and they present  practical, theoretical and metatheoretical dimension of the reflection on the translation. The authors of the articles collected in the issue are translation researchers from Poland and abroad, and the works deal with translations of both Slavonic and non-Slavonic literatures within various languages (English, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Italian). The issue has been divided into four problem parts. The first one presents translation as a ludic action, expressingit as a challenge, a play or a game (Bożena Tokarz, Olga Płaszczewska, Monika Gawlak). The second part is devoted to the translation experiments (Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Katarzyna Majdzik, Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż), while the third presents the translators as the representatives of the original culture  – the ambassadors and legislators according to J. Jarniewicz (Marta Skwara, Lucyna Spyrka, Marta Buczek, Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik, Tea Rogić Musa). In the last part, the problem of serial translations was presented (Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst, Andrij Saweneć, Leszek Małczak). The issue 9.1 of the journal „Translations of Slavic Literatures” is dedicated to the literary and translation theorists, as well as comparatists (scientists, critics, students).

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