Translating Emotions in the Modern „Waste Land”: Winterreise at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Anna Tenczyńska

doi:10.18290/rh247212.12

Published : 2024-12-27

Vol. 72 No. 12 (2024)

Translating Emotions in the Modern „Waste Land”: Winterreise at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-9426

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh247212.12

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the process of translating emotions in Podróż zimowa (1994), a cycle of 24 poems by the poet and translator, Stanisław Barańczak. The Polish author wrote them to the music of Franz Schubert, who had previously composed this music to the work of another poet, Wilhelm Müller. In each of these three artefacts – by Müller, Müller-Schubert, Müller-Schubert-Barańczak – a different emotional landscape is created. The comparative analysis of selected aspects of each of them, proposed in the article, is providing the opportunity to examine the exceptionally complex process of translating emotions: from the early romantic poetic text to music of the same era, and from these vocal works – back to a poetic text, almost two hundred years younger. One of the crucial figures we can observe in Podróż zimowa, when read or listened, is irony, both in the poems as well as between them and the Schubert’s music.

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Winterreise, Stanisław Barańczak, Franz Schubert, Wilhelm Müller, emotions, translation, Podróż zimowa

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anna.tenczynska@uw.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-9426

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University of Warsaw Poland

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Anna Tenczyńska is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Warsaw, co-founder of the Intersemiotic and Intermedial Research Group, and a founding member of the Polish Literary Translators’ Association. Her research interests include historical poetics of modern poetry, relations between literature and music, soundscape studies. She translates English texts on theory of art, theory of literature and musicology (e.g. Karol Berger, David Damrosch, Charles Rosen).