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Translation Criticism and Its Value for Small Literatures: The Case of Romanian Literature in Poland
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Abstract: Focusing on the Polish literary field and on Romanian literature in Polish translation, this article distinguishes literary criticism from translation criticism, arguing that the latter is indispensable to cultivating a culture of translation and, when attentive to linguistic, cultural, and sociopolitical dimensions, capable of foregrounding vulnerabilities characteristic of small literatures: a limited pool of specialists and translators, the scarcity of (re)translations, restricted possibilities for verifying translations against source texts, and heightened susceptibility to the manipulative dynamics of rewriting.
Keywords: translation criticism, Romanian literature in Poland, literary reception, rewriting, world literature, book market.
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Acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU’s NextGenerationEU instrument through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Romania – Pillar III-C9-I8, managed by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, within the project entitled Theorizing (Sub)peripheries: Strategies of Synchronization in Southeast European Literary and Cultural Criticism (STRASYN), contract no. 760247/28.12.2023, code CF 141/31.07.2023.
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