Published: 2020-06-29

Peripheral Presence. A Problem of Reception of the Old Serbian Literature in Poland

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Abstract

In the article, a problem of translation of the old Serbian literary texts into Polish is discussed together with the basic mechanisms of the reception process of creativity revealed by the Orthodox Slavs from the Balkan region, that is, in other words, the works arisen in the circle of the Slaviae Orthodoxae and their presence in the Polish culture’s space which belonged to the circle of the Slaviae Latinae. The considerations regard the essence and function of translation, presence and absence of translated literature — its initial version in the target space, and their foundation is located in the collections of translations existing in the Polish reading circuit. The issue of the presence or position of the old South Slavonic literatures, namely, the old Serbian texts in their Polish translation, is featured in several possible perspectives. The problem is exposed in the aspect of these texts’ peripheral character and literary genetics. By dint of the first reference, a phenomenon of asymmetry in the realm of translated literatures is emphasized, which results from the domination of the so-called world literatures and the marginalization of the so-called small literatures along with the translated literary texts’ place — their initial (Old Church Slavonic) status from the view-point of the target (Polish) culture’s space, and their situation in this specific polysystem. The genetic studies’ path, however, is used in order to expose a form of the translated literature’s presence (old Serbian texts in their Polish translation), and to indicate the strategy of its introduction, namely, anthology as a supporting platform of the initial (source) literature in the space of the target culture together with its presentation, dialogical, and intercultural function derived from the authorized genre. In the article’s conclusion, the author accentuates the fact that the collections or individual publications of the old Serbian works, omitting various values of the particular projects and realizations, exist in the Polish reading circuit in order to reflect largely their presence status, knowledge, and need for those concrete South Slavonic literature.

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Lis-Wielgosz, I. (2020). Peripheral Presence. A Problem of Reception of the Old Serbian Literature in Poland. Przekłady Literatur Słowiańskich [Translations of Slavic Literatures], 10(1), 147–171. https://doi.org/10.31261/PLS.2020.10.01.03

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)
Published: 2020-06-29


ISSN: 1899-9417
eISSN: 2353-9763
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PLS

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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