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“A small and great city”: On Translating Contemporary Glasgow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The aim of this article is to explore contemporary literary depictions of Glasgow as material for translation into Polish. Urban literature constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for translators, due to the ... -
Lumpenbroletariat among the Polystyrene Butterflies: On Robert Rybicki’s The Squatters’ Gift (Dar Meneli) as Poetic Travelogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Dar Meneli (The Squatters’ Gift)—a collection by Polish poet Robert Rybicki, a self-proclaimed happener—is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. His peripatetic poems pass ... -
Translation as a Spatial Process: The Linguistic Landscape of Caroline Bergvall’s Soundworks and Installations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)In a constantly evolving, interconnected world, both urban and rural space has become a symbolic site of linguistic and cultural gathering. Thus, translation implies a spatial dimension in which different voices converge ... -
“The city of their fathers”: Urban Space, Memory, and Language in Stuart Dybek’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Stuart Dybek is a writer invariably associated with his neighborhood of Pilsen/Little Village on Chicago’s Lower West Side. Having grown up there as a descendant of immigrants from Poland, Dybek frequently “revisits” his ... -
Between Translation and Translocation: How Art Sensorially Explodes Language in the Airport Space
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)After Bataille, one can argue that, like the “castle, church, temple, or palace” before, nowadays the airport terminal—as elementary architecture of modern urban communication—emerges as a “grand didactic monument.” Erected ... -
Refiguring and Normalizing Urban Space: Naguib Mahfouz’s Awlād ḥāratinā and Its English, Polish, and Spanish Translations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The Arabic term ḥāra denotes a specific topographical unit of the traditional Middle-Eastern, especially Egyptian, city. Variously translated into English—e.g., as lane, alley, but also quarter, district, neighbourhood—it ... -
Translating Istanbul: Divergent Voices in Travel Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Intersemiotic research on urban discourse provides a dynamic perspective for interdisciplinary analysis, particularly within the context of Translation Studies. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s claim that the city is a “discourse” ... -
Translating the “City of the Eye”: Mapping Contemporary Venice between Travel Writing and Residents’ Accounts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-21)In this article I explore the “translational city” through the unique lens of contemporary Venice. The multiple cities that have been the subject of work on the “translational city” display different linguistic and cultural ... -
Translating Urban/Translating Ritual: An Ethnographic Study of Dev Uthan Ekadashi
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Gurugram—a city located near Delhi, in the state of Haryana—is an important contributor to the country’s information technology, finance, and banking sectors. Geographically, it offers a rich amalgamation of the urban and ... -
GG and the City: What Canada’s Major Translation Award Reveals about Its Metropolises
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)In this article I consider the predominance of metropolises in the Canadian publishing sector through the lens of award-winning translations. My research is based on a database of information on Canadian literary prizes ... -
A Dramaturgy of Translation: The Brussels City Theatre as a Site of Negotiation between Language Policy and Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)State-funded city theatres play an important role in keeping a finger on the pulse of society. As porous institutions that act as meeting places between artists and citizens, they can present themselves as reflexive or ... -
Translational Dynamics in Urban Space: Exploring Battala’s Multilingual Cultural Encounter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)“Battala” is a Bengali metonym for commercial print culture which gained popularity during the Bengal Renaissance. This print culture became a translational palimpsest, disseminating literary genres and leading to the ... -
Urban Un/Belonging: Translating Pre-Partition Spaces in Old Rawalpindi, Pakistan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)In this article, I propose a transgressive re/inscription of the city spaces of Old Rawalpindi through the lens of Sherry Simon’s integrated translational city theory. In the wake of the 1947 partition of the Indian ... -
Community Centres as Sites of Translation: Placemaking in Edinburgh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article presents a research project comprising a series of community initiatives in Edinburgh, a city which displays a disproportionately English-heavy linguistic profile, despite the cosmopolitan influences of both ... -
Majorca as a Translational Space: Creating and Questioning Identity through Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-24)Majorca offers a rare combination of opportunities to develop a study of translation and space. Not only is it a site of rich historical cultural contact, but it is also a present location of contact and tension: between ... -
Exploring Yaoundé as a Linguistically Divided Capital City of an English and French Bilingual African Nation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)This article examines the place of translation in the public space in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, an African nation with a threefold (German, English, and French) colonial heritage. The collected quantitative ... -
Always in Motion: Cities, Languages, Histories
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Wywiad z Jackiem Kopczyńskim ‒ pasjonatem motoryzacji, kolekcjonerem i właścicielem zbiorów zgromadzonych w Muzeum Historycznych Pojazdów Militarnych i Techniki Motoryzacyjnej w Boczkach
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Działalność Komitetu Społecznego na rzecz renowacji nagrobków na cmentarzu parafialnym w Rossoszycy. Renowacja grobu Adama i Katarzyny Nenckich
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Muzeum Historycznych Pojazdów Militarnych i Techniki Motoryzacyjnej w Boczkach – prezentacja wybranych eksponatów
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)