Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

Introduction to the main features of  literary translation;  highlight the different translation techniques; improvement of the language skills. Particular attention will be paid to the morphosyntactic, lexical, terminological and cultural aspects that affect the process of translation from Polish into Italian and from Italian into Polish in a contrastive perspective

Erasmus students will be allowed to translate, if they wish, from Polish into English and vice-versa

Improvement of translating skills from Polish into Italian and from Italian into Polish. Better awareness of the strategies and methodologies that can be adopted depending from the purpose of the translation. Learning of translation's techniques and knowledge of the main supports available.

 

 

The lessons will focus on different types of problems linked with the translation of literary works. Analysis and translations of selected literary texts. Students will be required to translate themselves short texts from Polish into Italian and from Italian into Polish.

Erasmus students will be allowed to translate, if they wish, from Polish into English and vice-versa.

Oral exam aimed at verifying knowledge of the topics covered in class. Students will illustrate and discuss the strategies adopted in their versions of the passages analyzed in class, also referring to critical literature on the subject.

The final mark will take into account the results achieved in the written and oral language tests (lettorato).

Polish language classes, level B2-C1

 

After a brief introduction on some crucial aspects of the history of literary translations from Italian into Polish and from Polish into Italian, theories will be presented the main characteristics of Polish translation studies. This part will be accompanied by the analysis of the procedures followed by various Italian translators dealing with Polish literary works. Particular attention will be paid to the morphosyntactic, lexical, terminological and cultural aspects that affect the process of translation from Polish into Italian and from Italian into Polish in a contrastive perspective.

Conoscere le tesi principale dei saggi presentati e discussi a lezione e saper evidenziare le loro implicazioni. Saper commentare le opposte tesi sulla traduzione e le strategie di traduzione enumerate da Savory e Stolze e riportate da Urszula Dąbska.

 Scegliere 3 saggi da conoscere in modo più approfondito.

Scegliere 4 testi tra quelli tradotti e rivisti in aula (da inviare una settimana prima dell’esame la propria versione finale). Saper argomentare in sede di esame le proprie scelte traduttive.

 

Saggi:

in italiano

• 1 Costantino + brani Parkosz e Gornicki, Dworzanin polski
• 2 Wojtasiewicz (equivalenze)
• 3 Balcerzan (serie traduttiva) + confronto varie versioni dei primi versi del Pan Tadeusz di Mickiewicz
• 4 Piacentini (Hłasko)
• 5 Marchesani (Gombrowicz) pp.250-264 + saggio di Tomassucci
• 6 Prola Kresy
• 7 Sławkowa Stepy Akermanskie z perspektywy gramatyki kognitywnej + confronto traduzioni italiane prima strofa di Stepy Akermanskie

 

in polacco

• 8 Heywowski 5 (strategie traduttive)
• 9 Heywowski 7 (tipologia degli errori di traduzione)

 

Traduzioni

• 1 Komizm słowny (con riferimenti al Dworzanin polski)
• 2 Tuwim, Pan Tralaliński
• 3 Mrożek, Nasze czy inne zwierzęta oppure Do Dyrekcji Muzeum w Lówr
• 5 Hłasko (frasi scelte)
• 6 Graphic Novel, brani + alcuni disegni satirici di Mrożek
• 7 Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke brano + Brandys Wariacje pocztowe, inizio
• 8 Baricco Racconto di gennaio
• 9 Tokarczuk, Gość
• 10 Poświatowska + confronto traduzioni Szymborska
• 11 Helak, brano

 

 

Bibliografia

 

• Lorenzo Costantino, Teorie della traduzione in Polonia, Viterbo 2009 ( Introduzione XIX-LVI;

Wojtasiewicz, equivalenze, pp.3-16;  Balcerzan, serie traduttiva, pp.17-38);

• Hejwowski, Kognitywno-komunikacyjna teoria przekładu, Warszawa, PWN, 2006 (capp. 5 e 7);
• Marchesani, D’una edizione critica di Gombrowicz (e d’altro), “Europa Orientalis”, 11 ,

1. p. 233-294;

• Piacentini, Marek Hlasko e l'Italia, in La letteratura polacca contemporanea in Italia, a cura di P. Marchesani, Roma 1994, pp. 113-136;
• Prola, Quel che resta dei Kresy: sulla traduzione italiana, francese e inglese di Bohiń di Tadeusz Konwicki, «pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi», 11, 2020, pp. 28-45, https://plitonline.it/2020/plit-11-2020-28-45-dario-prola E. Sławkowa, Francuski przekład Stepów Akermańskich e perspektywie gramatyki kognitywnej, in Ead, J. Warchoł, Współczesne przekłady utworów Mickiewicza. Studia kulturowo-literackie. Studia o przekładzie pod red. P. Fasta, nr 11. Katowice 2000, Wydawnictwo „Śląsk”, pp. 142—153.
• G . Tomassucci, Su musi, facce e culandri (e altro): alcune riflessioni sulla/e traduzione/i di Ferdydurke, “PL.IT rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi”, 12, 2021, pp. 217-23.

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Texts and transaltions discussed in class will be available on Moodle.

Erasmus students may choose  instead of the suggested readings in Italian similar reading in Polish or in English