This paper aims to present children’s poetry as a complex phenomenon that eludes strict definitions and classifications, even if scholars attempt to define and classify it. Another objective is to review the Polish situation for an international audience. Children’s poetry appears as a significant element of every culture; as such, it constitutes a challenge for poets, translators, editors, critics, scholars, teachers, librarians… The article provides insight into Polish (and to some extent international) research. The place of children’s poetry in the corpus of poetry as a whole is considered and the role of illustrations is emphasised. The examples come mostly from Polish literature with several significant foreign works translated into Polish. The article consists of five main parts. Each of them has a question mark in the title which expresses my conviction that there are still more questions than answers in this field. And perhaps this is also the value of poetry – it defies academic formulas.
Istraživači hrvatske književnosti do sada su uglavnom proučavali Gardaševo prozno stvaralaštvo, a u ovom radu bit će istražene prevladavajuće tematsko-motivske osobine poezije za djecu i poezije za odrasle. U oba dijela opusa izdvojeno je šest tematsko-motivskih cjelina u kojima se uočava autorova sklonost istim motivima, prije svega motivima Slavonije, ali i mediteranskim, pejzažnim, nokturalnim motivima, kao i ljubavnoj i angažiranoj poeziji. Usporedbom dviju cjelina uočava se tonski dualizam pri njihovu oblikovanju s obzirom na implicitne čitatelje te je dječja poezija optimistična izričaja, dok u poeziji za odrasle prevladava pesimističan ton prožet egzistencijalističkim promišljanjima o životu, uz iznimku pjesama koje pripadaju šokačkomu podkorpusu stilistike panonizma.
U radu se komparativnom analizom pjesama za djecu i odrasle Branka Stevanovića istražuju načini oblikovanja pjesničkoga teksta i mogućnosti njegove čitateljske recepcije. Analizi su podvrgnute dvije zajedničke odlike Stevanovićeva opusa za djecu i stvaralaštva za odrasle: prisutnost tematskomotivskoga kompleksa smrti i stvaralačko oblikovanje intertekstualnih relacija. Upravo na tim razinama realizacije pjesničkoga teksta uočava se na koji način autor vidi svojega implicitnoga čitatelja i koje sve strategije koristi u procesu pisanja ne bi li mu prilagodio vlastito pjesničko stvaralaštvo. U razmatranjima se kao jedan od glavnih uvida izdvaja zaključak da je tematizacija smrti kompleksnija na mnogim razinama u poeziji za odrasle, a da je u poeziji za djecu dominantniji poziv na kritičku recepciju i diskusiju o intertekstualnim vezama.
The paper provides a bio-bibliography of Selena Dukić (1909–1935), one of the most talented and versatile yet neglected writers and publicists in Serbian and Yugoslav culture, with a focus on the fiction she wrote as a child and/or for children. From an early age, while still in the lower grades of elementary school, Dukić published in a newspaper a handful of poems that suggested her future literary experiments in the most diverse genres and traditions. Later, according to her wishes, ten of her stories for children were published posthumously in 1937 in Veliki i mali [The Big and the Little Ones]. All aspects of the book – starting from the atypical design and editorial conception, through the (transmedia) ways of directing reception, the correlation of the (auto)biographical, journalistic, and fictional, all the way to its complex models of authorship – deserve careful interpretation and analysis, which are offered in this paper for the very first time (in the English language).
Translators occupy a privileged position when translating works written for a young audience as they are simultaneously ideal readers and authors of the target texts. The apparently easy task of translating children’s literature relies on the translator’s responsibility to keep the author of the source text and the readership in mind. If we consider children’s literature as an opportunity for young readers to shape their own image of the world and – with reference to youth literature – reflect on their identity, translations can nurture a silent dialogue between the reader and the book during reading. T his paper outlines the position of children’s literature in academia and the shared multidisciplinary dimension with translation in order to discuss the value of translations and the role of translators as responsible for nurturing a narrative dialogue with young readers.
