English Translations of Korczak’s Children’s Fiction

English Translations of Korczak’s Children’s Fiction PDF Author: Michał Borodo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303038117X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children’s literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators’ treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children’s literature or Janusz Korczak.

English Translations of Korczak’s Children’s Fiction

English Translations of Korczak’s Children’s Fiction PDF Author: Michał Borodo
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303038117X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Book Description
This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children’s literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators’ treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children’s literature or Janusz Korczak.

King Matt the First

King Matt the First PDF Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466894172
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Book Description
A child king introduces reforms to give children the same rights as adults.

Janusz Korczak's Children

Janusz Korczak's Children PDF Author: Gloria Spielman
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ™
ISBN: 1512490229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
In the years between WWI and WWII, young Henryk Goldszmidt dreamed of creating a better world for children. As an adult, using the pen name Janusz Korczak, he became a writer, doctor, and an enlightened leader in the field of education, unaware to what use his skills were destined to be put. Dr. Korczak established a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw where he introduced the world to his progressive ideas in child development and children’s rights. When the Nazis occupy Warsaw, the orphanage is moved to the ghetto, and when the 200 children in his care are deported, Dr. Korczak famously refuses to be saved, marching with his charges to the train that will take them to their deaths. This biography of Janusz Korczak is a chapter book for elementary school readers and has full color illustrations

The King of Children

The King of Children PDF Author: Betty Jean Lifton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312155605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Book Description
As stirring as "Schindler's List", this classic biography focuses on the first advocate of children's rights--the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. A "New York Times" Notable Book. photos.

Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy

Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004683291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.

Kaytek the Wizard

Kaytek the Wizard PDF Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Penlight Publications
ISBN: 9780983868507
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Kaytek is surprised to learn that he can perform magic and change reality, but when his magic results in chaos, he roams the world searching for a higher purpose for his abilities.

Children’s Literature in Translation

Children’s Literature in Translation PDF Author: Jan Van Coillie
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462702225
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.

Ghetto Diary

Ghetto Diary PDF Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.

Loving Every Child

Loving Every Child PDF Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565124899
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
The wisdom, understanding, and advice of the late Polish educator, physician, and child advocate come together in a gift volume for parents that includes one hundred quotations and excerpts from Korczak's writings that explain how to care for, respect, and love every child.

When I Am Little Again ; And, The Child's Right to Respect

When I Am Little Again ; And, The Child's Right to Respect PDF Author: Janusz Korczak
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819183071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together. Two prominent themes in his writing are the exploration of the place of children in an adult world and the examination of the treatment and regard children are accorded in that world. In his second book, Korczak spells out his 'Magna Charta Libertatis' in defense of the child's right to respect, right to be him or herself, and, most importantly, right to respect for the strenuous effort expended in the process of 'growing up.'