Article 2018
Authors / editors: Caterina Bernardini
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This essay treats the Italian translation of a selection of essays taken from a series of books by American naturalist writer John Muir (1838–1914). The translator considers the peculiarities of Muir’s style and themes and describes the strategies she used in order to render his …
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2018.9-09 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The poem “Inscription,” which for the first time opened the 1867 Leaves with the dominant image of “ONE’S-SELF,” has become one of the most prominent of Whitman’s poems in the Polish rewritings of Leaves of Grass. Although only the final version of the poem (1871) has been transl…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2017.8-05 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Marina Camboni
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
In the same years in which the first three editions of Leaves of Grass were published, Whitman invested a conspicuous part of his energies in the study of language, a commitment he would continue with varying intensity for the rest of his life. By the time he published the third …
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2017.8-04 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Diana Ismail
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The coverage summarizes the fifth annual meeting of scholars and enthusiasts of
the nineteenth century American poet, Walt Whitman. It contains information concerning
the background of the event: the overall aim of International Whitman Week, the
role of its founders, a descri…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Meenakshi Bharat
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Walt Whitman’s poetry displays a marked inclination towards oriental mysticism.
It is this connection that I seek to examine in the latter day Hindi translation of Leaves
of Grass by Chandrabali Singh.
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Ayten Tartici
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article provides an analysis of Turkish translations of Walt Whitman, in
particular of the famous line “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
The article further examines how Whitman was re-appropriated and refashioned in
a novel cultural context and specu…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The text examines the Polish reception of Whitman’s “barbaric yawp,” beginning
with pre-translational intertextual references made by the influential Polish poet Julian
Tuwim (“Poezja,” 1921). Subsequently, the version of the “barbaric yawp” line from
the introduction to the s…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Andrey Azov
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The essay traces the history of Kornei Chukovsky’s translation of Whitman’s
“yawp” into Russian, points out the oddities of the translation and suggests a tentative
explanation of Chukovsky’s word choice. It also examines the “yawp” in the Russian
translation of the film Dead …
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Bojana Aćamović
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The paper analyzes four Serbian (Serbo-Croatian) translations of the line “I sound
my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” that were made by Ivo Andrić, Tin Ujević,
Ivan V. Lalić, and Dragan Purešić. The author is also interested in Whitman’s influence
on the poetics of …
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Maria Clara Paro
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This essay examines the different ways Walt Whitman’s “barbaric yawp” was
translated into Portuguese and in so doing it offers information about Whitman’s
literary reception in Brazil. Although it has taken almost 150 years for Brazilians to be
able to read a complete version …
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Caterina Bernardini
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article is a brief historical overview of the different Italian translations of
Whitman’s line “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” Each translation
is followed by short comments. An alternative solution is proposed by the author.
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Éric Athenot
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The French editions of Whitman’s “Song of Myself ” have had from the start to
contend with two difficulties—the “yawp” and the choice between a static or a more
dynamic rendering of the poet’s cry. From the trail-blazing Bazalgette text (1909) to the
latest Darras volume (2002…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Katia Vandenborre
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article presents two most important translations of Whitman’s line in Dutch.
The first one comes from Natuurleven (“Natural life”), the selection of poems that
Maurits Wagenvoort translated into Dutch in 1898; the second one was taken from the
first complete edition of Lea…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Vanessa Steinroetter
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This essay presents an overview and analysis of German-language translations
of Walt Whitman’s phrase “barbaric yawp” in seven full versions of the poem “Song
of Myself ” and in key biographical essays and prefaces by critics and translators in the
German-speaking countries.
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Anders Pettersson
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article discusses the pros and cons of the three Swedish translations of the
“yawp” and comments on their historical context and general character. The three Swedish
versions differ in background and tone but are very similar in their treatment of the
yawp itself. In his c…
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Article 2013
Authors / editors: Ed Folsom
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The introduction examines the origins and history of the word “yawp,” offers an
overview of how Whitman’s “barbaric yawp” has been interpreted in criticism about
“Song of Myself ” and suggests some of the challenges in translating the phrase.
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