Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Miłość do Laury w świetle filozofii moralnej Petrarki w Secretum meum 13 Piotr Salwa Ortensio Lan... more Miłość do Laury w świetle filozofii moralnej Petrarki w Secretum meum 13 Piotr Salwa Ortensio Lando wśród książek-rozterki erudyty 25 Stefan Bielański Francesco Guicciardini jako historyk. Zarys problematyki badawczej 37 Barbara Marczuk Antyitalianizm w Heptameronie Małgorzaty z Nawarry (1559) 49 Jolanta Dygul Carlo Gozzi Marfisa bizzarra, czyli o zgubnym wpływie modnych lektur 63 Luigi Bruno "Il Machiavelli polacco"-Krzysztof Warszewicki: la figura del diplomatico 73 Jadwiga Miszalska Sebastian Grabowiecki jako tłumacz Psalmów Bernarda Tassa 83 Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik Marfiza i Brandamant w Arkadii (ślady znajomości włoskiej epiki rycerskiej w Ermidzie Stanisława Herakliusza Lubomirskiego) 95 Joanna Janusz Irriverenze rinascimentali di Michele Mari 105 Agnieszka Liszka-Drążkiewicz "La ricerca d'una piccola patria"-Orlando innamorato raccontato in prosa di Gianni Celati 113 Cezary Bronowski Effetto umoristico del romanzo Il fu Mattia Pascal di Luigi Pirandello in Roque Six di José López Rubio 123 Dorota Karwacka-Pastor I fenomeni atmosferici nel Rinascimento. Il trattato di Camillo Agrippa 133 Indeks osobowy 141
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Dec 17, 2020
Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in M... more Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in Michele Mari novels-michele mari, who debuted towards the end of the 80s of the 20th century, has written prose, poetry and drama and is considered to be one of the classics of literature. His name is very often mentioned together with such famous writers as gadda and Consolo. Already his literary debut showed him in opposition to the contemporary style and themes that ruled the literature. When it comes to those two aspects of a literary work, mari uses a baggage of literary tradition, both Italian and European, without limiting it only to the postmodern technique of quote and reference. The tradition in his works is used in a creative way and is converted into a matter which allows for an original interpretation of the contemporary times. This article aims at showing selected linguistic and thematic elements which are transformed in this way in the first three novels of the author.
quanto conseguenza del peccato originale e un segno visibile della condizione sociale inferiore (... more quanto conseguenza del peccato originale e un segno visibile della condizione sociale inferiore (in effetti, solo i plebei erano costretti a mantenersi con il lavoro delle proprie mani), soltanto con l’avvento dell’industrializzazione ottocentesca fu provvisto di una teorizzazione filosofica. Ciò avvenne grazie alla prima dottrina filosofica del lavoro elaborata da Georg Wilhelm Hegel. Secondo il filosofo tedesco il lavoro aveva carattere universale, oggettivo e astratto ed era anzitutto una mediazione fra l’uomo e il suo mondo, visto che l’uomo, essendo sostanzialmente incapace di soddisfare tutti i propri bisogni con il proprio lavoro, doveva entrare in relazione di dipendenza e di scambio con gli altri1. Sulla stessa scia avrebbe poi continuato la sua riflessione sul significato del lavoro umano anche Karl Marx, deviando tuttavia il pensiero hegeliano e concentrandosi sugli aspetti alienanti del lavoro. Nell’ottica marxista questa attività umana diventò una dura necessità, quasi ...
The aim of this article is to present on a very specific example the changes the original texts g... more The aim of this article is to present on a very specific example the changes the original texts goes through in the process of translation depending on the assumed addressee of the translation and their competences. The methodological base is the skopos theory with its modification. This work compares two types of translation strategies (foreignization and domestication) and two types of addressees (familiar vs. unfamiliar addressee) in translation. The subject of this translation analysis and translation is the original Italian criminal law document „Ordine di esecuzione” (a writ issued by the Public Prosecutor, directing any executive officer to convey the person named in the writ to a prison or jail, and directing the jailor to receive and imprison the person
Il 24 e il 25 maggio 2012, nell’Aula Magna della Facoltà a Sosnowiec si è svolto, organizzato cic... more Il 24 e il 25 maggio 2012, nell’Aula Magna della Facoltà a Sosnowiec si è svolto, organizzato ciclicamente dal Dipartimento della Storia di Letteratura ell’Istituto della Filologia Russa, un convegno di studi il cui tema quest’anno erteva sul discorso critico nell’ambito delle scienze umane odierne nonché sull’interesse portato dalla cultura, moderna e postmoderna, al corpo umano e alla problematica della corporeità. Lo scopo principale delle sedute era quello di verificare se, al giorno di oggi, è lecito parlare di una vera e propria svolta somatica nella cultura e il tentativo di una sistematizzazione dei discorsi critici concentrati sulla problematica somatica (...
The study concerns the analysis of the works of Giovanni Testori contained in the volume La Gilda... more The study concerns the analysis of the works of Giovanni Testori contained in the volume La Gilda del Mac Mahon (1959). From the chronological, epistemological and aesthetic point of view, Testori’s debut works are characteristic for two different literary tendencies of writing: neorealist and expressionistic. The neorealist traditions coming into play in Testori’s works include themes (difficult situation of the people living in Milan’s suburbs), and forms of expression (low point of view, spoken style-popular). Testori in a very personal and original way weaves together the narrative neorealist elements with those of the new aesthetics, the expressionistic vanguard which is present to the maximum extent in his theatrical works. The expressionism of Testori is represented by the subjective and partial representation of the story and most of all by the typology of the protagonist (a young protagonist who is naked, that is presented in his most intimate actions: oppression and solitu...
The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also i... more The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also in Italian literature, becoming, especially at the beginning of the 20th century, the metaphor of the situation of the individual in the modern world. By the turn of the 20th century, the theme of illness indicates not only the condition of the individual, the physical disease, the state of poor health, but means as well the chronic inability to adapt himself to the social life. The debut novel of Paolo Volponi entitled Memoriale (first English translation by Grossman 1962 as My Trouble Began, Calder & Boyars 1967 as The Memorandum) also uses the topos of the social alienation of the character who is ill. The illness in the novel has two different faces: the classic one is that of the infectious disease ― the tuberculosis, and the other one is the 20th century theme of madness, seen as the particular condition of the industrialized society. Volponi analyzes the individual dimension of tec...
The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also i... more The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also in Italian literature, becoming, especially at the beginning of the 20th century, the metaphor of the situation of the individual in the modern world. By the turn of the 20th century, the theme of illness indicates not only the condition of the individual, the physical disease, the state of poor health, but means as well the chronic inability to adapt himself to the social life. The debut novel of Paolo Volponi entitled Memoriale (first English translation by Grossman 1962 as My Trouble Began, Calder & Boyars 1967 as The Memorandum) also uses the topos of the social alienation of the character who is ill. The illness in the novel has two different faces: the classic one is that of the infectious disease ― the tuberculosis, and the other one is the 20th century theme of madness, seen as the particular condition of the industrialized society. Volponi analyzes the individual dimension of tec...
The feminine world, the world of words. The linguistic expression of the feminine condition in Tu... more The feminine world, the world of words. The linguistic expression of the feminine condition in Tutto su mia nonna by Silvia Ballestra. The novel Tutto su mia nonna by Silvia Ballestra is the excellent example of language, writing and sensibility straightforwardly feminine. The main characters of the narration that is the three generations of woman, become the vivid and active subjects of the narration, who form the reality, non only filtering the world which is being narrated in their personal emotional way, but also structuring their world in relationship to the social existence as though their activity does not refer only to their private and personal zone. The definition of femininity passes through the language as it is not only the way to comunicate but it assumes three different manners: conative, magical and sensual. The sensual and tangible aspect values, by the use of marchigiano dialect, the material, concrete meaning that refers to the body and its physical expression. Th...
The article “Language and style in the Polish version of some tales of Italo Calvino: Il castello... more The article “Language and style in the Polish version of some tales of Italo Calvino: Il castello dei destini incrociati and Le Cosmicomiche is devoted to the analysis of the difficulties of Polish translation of the tales of Calvino. The study is based on three theoretical levels concerning: context, equivalence and fidelity, and proceeds gradually from establishing the possible equivalence of metatext on the morphosyntactical level , to analysing the equivalence of translation on the stylistic level. The first step examines the aspect of translation concerning that of verbal times and implicit clauses, the following step aims at establishing the fidelity of translation related to archaisms, alliterations, and trademarks left by the author.The equivalence on the linguistic-grammatical level turns out to be more easily obtainable. If not, a translator has always the adequate means to compensate for what has been lost in translation. Still the grammar with its particular meaning like distinction between narrative planes, present tense-past perfect tense, subjunctive form of a verb expressing a condition, hypothesis, possibility, may cause unpredictable difficulties with translation, that cannot be overcome.The stylistic equivalence, that is to dominate in literary texts, results conditioned by the general character of Calvino’s writing and by the specific features of his work, what has been discovered during the examination of Calvino’s texts. This information is vital for the translation. The most difficult problems are caused by the differences between Italian and Polish and are related to the phonic structure of these linguistic systems.Every translator of Calvino’s work is always forced to choose what seems to be the most adequate and appropriate solution, accepting the inevitable loss. The difficult process of translation makes of him the mediator between two languages, two cultures and traditions. That is why high fidelity of translation requires non only the linguistic fluency and flexibility but also the particular artistic sensitivity, enriched with the ability of reasonable interpretation that allows the reader to understand what could remain in shadow as it belongs to the extralinguistic context. Paradoxically all this seems to be more difficult that writing the original work.
ABstract: Postcolonial literature, which did not appear in Italy until the 1980s, started to flou... more ABstract: Postcolonial literature, which did not appear in Italy until the 1980s, started to flourish in that country in the early 1990s. Although it originated there and draws on Italian historic colonial experiences, it can be understood as a way of emphasising the linguistic and cultural separateness of Italian-speaking authors originating from former Italian colonies in Africa (i.e. Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia). It appears that a country like Italy, which has been deprived of its homogeneity and linguistic and cultural cohesion, is particularly susceptible to the absorption of traditions and languages from outside. Postcolonial literature, which at its very basic level is a hybrid, cannot be pushed into the framework of one convention or tradition. On the contrary, it fits well into the mainstream of non-canonical, avant-garde and expressionistic literature that has been present since Dante. Igiaba Scego, the author of Oltre Babilonia, published in 2008, belongs to the generation of young Italian writers of African origin. The article aims to analyse the novel in terms of writing techniques defined as expressionistic at the level of surface, typology of characters and linguistic and stylistic features.
Michele Mari, który zadebiutował pod koniec lat 80. XX wieku, jest autorem dzieł z zakresu prozy,... more Michele Mari, który zadebiutował pod koniec lat 80. XX wieku, jest autorem dzieł z zakresu prozy, poezji i dramatu i uważa się go za jednego z klasyków literatury. Jego nazwisko bardzo często wymienia się obok takich sław jak Gadda i Consolo. Już jego debiut literacki ukazał go jako stojącego w opozycji do współczesnego stylu i tematów, które rządziły literaturą do tamtej pory. Jeśli chodzi o te dwa aspekty dzieła literackiego, Mari korzysta z bagażu tradycji literackiej, zarówno włoskiej, jak i europejskiej, nie ograniczając się jedynie do postmodernistycznej techniki cytowania i odniesienia. Tradycja w jego twórczości jest wykorzystywana w sposób twórczy i przekształcana w materię, która pozwala na oryginalną interpretację współczesności. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu ukazanie wybranych elementów językowych i tematycznych, które zostały przekształcone w ten sposób w trzech pierwszych powieściach autora.
L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation ave... more L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation avec l’Autre dans un roman de l’écrivain italien contemporain Mauro Covacich. L’identité, comme structure dynamique et sujette à différentes formes d’influence, dans le roman constitue l’objet d’analyse dans deux de ses dimensions principales. La première est la dimension collective:à travers la narration et l’ensemble des expériences historiques, politiques et culturelles, la collectivité forme l’identité individuelle de chacun de ses membres. La deuxième dimension est celle de l’autoréflexion qui mène à l’individualisation de la personne par rapport à la société. L’autoréflexion se révèle particulièrement importante pour le personnage principal, obligé à confronter son identité individuelle avec celle de l’écrivain, définie comme une fusion de différentes identités des personnages littéraires de ses œuvres. Le roman de Covacich fait partie de la discussion sur l’identité et l’altérité ainsi que du débat initié en Italie dans les années 90, autour de l’autofiction et du réalisme dans la littérature. My history is the history of the Other. Narration and identity in A Nome Tuo by Mauro Covacich This article focuses on the issue of building identity in relation with the Other / Stranger in one of the novels of a contemporary Italian writer, Mauro Covacich. The identity, defined as a dynamic structure that is influenced by numerous things, is shaped in the analysed novel in two dimensions. The first dimension is the community one in which, through narration and common historical, political and cultural experiences, the community is shaping the identity of an individual. The other dimension is that of self-reflexion, which leads to individualization of a person facing the community. Self-reflexion is particularly important when it comes to the main protagonist, who confronts his individual identity with the identity of the writer understood as a combination of various identities that exist in literary protagonists created by that writer. Covacich’s novel falls into the category of literary reflexion over identity and otherness, but it also is a voice in a discussion that took place in Italy in the 90s of the 20th century that focused on autofiction and realism in literature.
From the moment of his literary debut in 1989, Michele Mari is considered to be the representativ... more From the moment of his literary debut in 1989, Michele Mari is considered to be the representative of classic tendencies in contemporary Italian literature. One of the most noticeable characteristics of his writing is the presence of autobiographic elements which appear in all his works with different intensity, but also the archaization of style and language, literary references and metaliterary reflexions. This article aims at showing how the 1992 novel La stiva e l’abisso connects two of those aspects of Mari’s writing: intertextuality and literary references to adventure novel genre, as well as it reflects on the role and value of the literature for the contemporary people. It analyses basic narrative instances, that is the narrator, narrative structure, place and time of events, in order to show how they result in metaliterary reflexion.
Come confermano i più recenti studi psicologici, gli esseri umani sono per natura votati a raccon... more Come confermano i più recenti studi psicologici, gli esseri umani sono per natura votati a raccontare storie. L'innata capacità di tessere racconti permette di conferire significato ad esperienze personali e ai vissuti collettivi; narrare significa ordinare il pensiero per mezzo del racconto. La narrazione costituisce lo strumento principale della costruzione e della diffusione sociale del sapere logico: si memorizza meglio quello che si è in grado di raccontare. Le grandi narrazioni, come sostiene François Lyotard, hanno costituito per secoli il fondamento del processo di trasmissione ed elaborazione del sapere nelle società occidentali più evolute. L'etimologia di questa prima e primordiale funzione del racconto si ricava dall'etimologia del termine narrare, che, derivato dal latino gnarus-'consapevole' e dal verbo gnarigare-'conoscere', nella sua accezione rara e antica conserva il significato di esporre con chiarezza, spiegare, rivelare, dare notizia e far capire, far conoscere raccontando. Oggigiorno si nota, nei confronti del concetto di narrazione, un'incongruenza. Da una parte si contesta la sua validità come strumento dell'acquisizione del sapere (fine delle grandi narrazioni secondo Lyotard); dall'altra parte la tecnica narrazionale si diffonde sempre di più in molti campi di ricerca. Infatti, a partire dal narrative turn degli anni Ottanta l'interesse per la narrazione si estende a dismisura, coinvolgendo neuroscienziati, biologi, filosofi, psicologi (Jerome Bruner, Mark Turner) e sociologi (concetto di homo narrans di Walter R. Fisher), tanto da giungere all'affermazione che la narrazione non è un semplice mezzo di comunicazione o di espressione artistica bensì uno strumento di pensiero e dell'organizzazione dell'esperienza. La forma di ragionamento definita "pensiero narrativo" si rivela utile come strumento ordinatore di vari settori del sapere umano, ma trova la sua espressione sublimata nella creatività letteraria. Nel campo letterario siamo ormai in una nuova fase degli studi sulla narrazione, che vede superati sia l'approccio formale e strutturalista (Propp, Todorov, Brémond, Barthes, Genette), sia quello intento allo studio semiotico (Greimas,
Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in M... more Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in Michele Mari novels-michele mari, who debuted towards the end of the 80s of the 20th century, has written prose, poetry and drama and is considered to be one of the classics of literature. His name is very often mentioned together with such famous writers as gadda and Consolo. Already his literary debut showed him in opposition to the contemporary style and themes that ruled the literature. When it comes to those two aspects of a literary work, mari uses a baggage of literary tradition, both Italian and European, without limiting it only to the postmodern technique of quote and reference. The tradition in his works is used in a creative way and is converted into a matter which allows for an original interpretation of the contemporary times. This article aims at showing selected linguistic and thematic elements which are transformed in this way in the first three novels of the author.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
Artykuł poddaje analizie motywy topiczne muru, ściany i domu w utworach jednego z największych pr... more Artykuł poddaje analizie motywy topiczne muru, ściany i domu w utworach jednego z największych prozaików włoskich dwudziestego wieku, Carla Emilia Gaddy. Motywy te częścią szerokiego projektu pisarskiego autora, którego celem było zobrazowanie i skatalogowanie całej materialnej rzeczywistości. Elementy te pojawiają się jako części większej całości: bezpiecznego domu i prywatnej nieprzekraczalnej przestrzeni, ale także jako symbol ograniczeń, drobnomieszczańskich konwenansów czy też miejsce cierpienia i wyrzeczeń. W posługiwaniu się elementami architektonicznymi Gadda zwraca uwagę na najdrobniejsze szczegóły i funkcje budujące całość. Sięgając po odniesienia architektoniczne takie jak mur i dom, Gadda czyni je częściami skomplikowanego systemu relacji metaforycznych, poprzez które pisarz podejmuje próbę ujarzmienia chaotycznej rzeczywistości. Mury i ściany willi, apartamentów, robotniczych mieszkań, wiejskich dworków, a także wyniosłe kamienne ogrodzenia często mają dwojakie znaczenie i rolę: oddzielają od świata i chronią przed jego chaosem lub też są wytworami znienawidzonej przez pisarza drobnomieszczańskiej kultury, znakami jej wątpliwego bogactwa i złego gustu i dlatego stają się obiektem krytyki. W niektórych utworach stają się symbolem pragnienia samoizolacji bohatera. Na poziomie struktury narracyjnej motywy muru i ściany stają się pretekstem do rozwinięcia dygresyjnego czy też rozbudowanej pauzy, co w rezultacie daje efekt rozbicia diegezy, która pozostaje niedokończona i fragmentaryczna.
Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Miłość do Laury w świetle filozofii moralnej Petrarki w Secretum meum 13 Piotr Salwa Ortensio Lan... more Miłość do Laury w świetle filozofii moralnej Petrarki w Secretum meum 13 Piotr Salwa Ortensio Lando wśród książek-rozterki erudyty 25 Stefan Bielański Francesco Guicciardini jako historyk. Zarys problematyki badawczej 37 Barbara Marczuk Antyitalianizm w Heptameronie Małgorzaty z Nawarry (1559) 49 Jolanta Dygul Carlo Gozzi Marfisa bizzarra, czyli o zgubnym wpływie modnych lektur 63 Luigi Bruno "Il Machiavelli polacco"-Krzysztof Warszewicki: la figura del diplomatico 73 Jadwiga Miszalska Sebastian Grabowiecki jako tłumacz Psalmów Bernarda Tassa 83 Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik Marfiza i Brandamant w Arkadii (ślady znajomości włoskiej epiki rycerskiej w Ermidzie Stanisława Herakliusza Lubomirskiego) 95 Joanna Janusz Irriverenze rinascimentali di Michele Mari 105 Agnieszka Liszka-Drążkiewicz "La ricerca d'una piccola patria"-Orlando innamorato raccontato in prosa di Gianni Celati 113 Cezary Bronowski Effetto umoristico del romanzo Il fu Mattia Pascal di Luigi Pirandello in Roque Six di José López Rubio 123 Dorota Karwacka-Pastor I fenomeni atmosferici nel Rinascimento. Il trattato di Camillo Agrippa 133 Indeks osobowy 141
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Dec 17, 2020
Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in M... more Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in Michele Mari novels-michele mari, who debuted towards the end of the 80s of the 20th century, has written prose, poetry and drama and is considered to be one of the classics of literature. His name is very often mentioned together with such famous writers as gadda and Consolo. Already his literary debut showed him in opposition to the contemporary style and themes that ruled the literature. When it comes to those two aspects of a literary work, mari uses a baggage of literary tradition, both Italian and European, without limiting it only to the postmodern technique of quote and reference. The tradition in his works is used in a creative way and is converted into a matter which allows for an original interpretation of the contemporary times. This article aims at showing selected linguistic and thematic elements which are transformed in this way in the first three novels of the author.
quanto conseguenza del peccato originale e un segno visibile della condizione sociale inferiore (... more quanto conseguenza del peccato originale e un segno visibile della condizione sociale inferiore (in effetti, solo i plebei erano costretti a mantenersi con il lavoro delle proprie mani), soltanto con l’avvento dell’industrializzazione ottocentesca fu provvisto di una teorizzazione filosofica. Ciò avvenne grazie alla prima dottrina filosofica del lavoro elaborata da Georg Wilhelm Hegel. Secondo il filosofo tedesco il lavoro aveva carattere universale, oggettivo e astratto ed era anzitutto una mediazione fra l’uomo e il suo mondo, visto che l’uomo, essendo sostanzialmente incapace di soddisfare tutti i propri bisogni con il proprio lavoro, doveva entrare in relazione di dipendenza e di scambio con gli altri1. Sulla stessa scia avrebbe poi continuato la sua riflessione sul significato del lavoro umano anche Karl Marx, deviando tuttavia il pensiero hegeliano e concentrandosi sugli aspetti alienanti del lavoro. Nell’ottica marxista questa attività umana diventò una dura necessità, quasi ...
The aim of this article is to present on a very specific example the changes the original texts g... more The aim of this article is to present on a very specific example the changes the original texts goes through in the process of translation depending on the assumed addressee of the translation and their competences. The methodological base is the skopos theory with its modification. This work compares two types of translation strategies (foreignization and domestication) and two types of addressees (familiar vs. unfamiliar addressee) in translation. The subject of this translation analysis and translation is the original Italian criminal law document „Ordine di esecuzione” (a writ issued by the Public Prosecutor, directing any executive officer to convey the person named in the writ to a prison or jail, and directing the jailor to receive and imprison the person
Il 24 e il 25 maggio 2012, nell’Aula Magna della Facoltà a Sosnowiec si è svolto, organizzato cic... more Il 24 e il 25 maggio 2012, nell’Aula Magna della Facoltà a Sosnowiec si è svolto, organizzato ciclicamente dal Dipartimento della Storia di Letteratura ell’Istituto della Filologia Russa, un convegno di studi il cui tema quest’anno erteva sul discorso critico nell’ambito delle scienze umane odierne nonché sull’interesse portato dalla cultura, moderna e postmoderna, al corpo umano e alla problematica della corporeità. Lo scopo principale delle sedute era quello di verificare se, al giorno di oggi, è lecito parlare di una vera e propria svolta somatica nella cultura e il tentativo di una sistematizzazione dei discorsi critici concentrati sulla problematica somatica (...
The study concerns the analysis of the works of Giovanni Testori contained in the volume La Gilda... more The study concerns the analysis of the works of Giovanni Testori contained in the volume La Gilda del Mac Mahon (1959). From the chronological, epistemological and aesthetic point of view, Testori’s debut works are characteristic for two different literary tendencies of writing: neorealist and expressionistic. The neorealist traditions coming into play in Testori’s works include themes (difficult situation of the people living in Milan’s suburbs), and forms of expression (low point of view, spoken style-popular). Testori in a very personal and original way weaves together the narrative neorealist elements with those of the new aesthetics, the expressionistic vanguard which is present to the maximum extent in his theatrical works. The expressionism of Testori is represented by the subjective and partial representation of the story and most of all by the typology of the protagonist (a young protagonist who is naked, that is presented in his most intimate actions: oppression and solitu...
The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also i... more The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also in Italian literature, becoming, especially at the beginning of the 20th century, the metaphor of the situation of the individual in the modern world. By the turn of the 20th century, the theme of illness indicates not only the condition of the individual, the physical disease, the state of poor health, but means as well the chronic inability to adapt himself to the social life. The debut novel of Paolo Volponi entitled Memoriale (first English translation by Grossman 1962 as My Trouble Began, Calder & Boyars 1967 as The Memorandum) also uses the topos of the social alienation of the character who is ill. The illness in the novel has two different faces: the classic one is that of the infectious disease ― the tuberculosis, and the other one is the 20th century theme of madness, seen as the particular condition of the industrialized society. Volponi analyzes the individual dimension of tec...
The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also i... more The theme of illness, as one of the most frequently used literary topoi, occurs very often also in Italian literature, becoming, especially at the beginning of the 20th century, the metaphor of the situation of the individual in the modern world. By the turn of the 20th century, the theme of illness indicates not only the condition of the individual, the physical disease, the state of poor health, but means as well the chronic inability to adapt himself to the social life. The debut novel of Paolo Volponi entitled Memoriale (first English translation by Grossman 1962 as My Trouble Began, Calder & Boyars 1967 as The Memorandum) also uses the topos of the social alienation of the character who is ill. The illness in the novel has two different faces: the classic one is that of the infectious disease ― the tuberculosis, and the other one is the 20th century theme of madness, seen as the particular condition of the industrialized society. Volponi analyzes the individual dimension of tec...
The feminine world, the world of words. The linguistic expression of the feminine condition in Tu... more The feminine world, the world of words. The linguistic expression of the feminine condition in Tutto su mia nonna by Silvia Ballestra. The novel Tutto su mia nonna by Silvia Ballestra is the excellent example of language, writing and sensibility straightforwardly feminine. The main characters of the narration that is the three generations of woman, become the vivid and active subjects of the narration, who form the reality, non only filtering the world which is being narrated in their personal emotional way, but also structuring their world in relationship to the social existence as though their activity does not refer only to their private and personal zone. The definition of femininity passes through the language as it is not only the way to comunicate but it assumes three different manners: conative, magical and sensual. The sensual and tangible aspect values, by the use of marchigiano dialect, the material, concrete meaning that refers to the body and its physical expression. Th...
The article “Language and style in the Polish version of some tales of Italo Calvino: Il castello... more The article “Language and style in the Polish version of some tales of Italo Calvino: Il castello dei destini incrociati and Le Cosmicomiche is devoted to the analysis of the difficulties of Polish translation of the tales of Calvino. The study is based on three theoretical levels concerning: context, equivalence and fidelity, and proceeds gradually from establishing the possible equivalence of metatext on the morphosyntactical level , to analysing the equivalence of translation on the stylistic level. The first step examines the aspect of translation concerning that of verbal times and implicit clauses, the following step aims at establishing the fidelity of translation related to archaisms, alliterations, and trademarks left by the author.The equivalence on the linguistic-grammatical level turns out to be more easily obtainable. If not, a translator has always the adequate means to compensate for what has been lost in translation. Still the grammar with its particular meaning like distinction between narrative planes, present tense-past perfect tense, subjunctive form of a verb expressing a condition, hypothesis, possibility, may cause unpredictable difficulties with translation, that cannot be overcome.The stylistic equivalence, that is to dominate in literary texts, results conditioned by the general character of Calvino’s writing and by the specific features of his work, what has been discovered during the examination of Calvino’s texts. This information is vital for the translation. The most difficult problems are caused by the differences between Italian and Polish and are related to the phonic structure of these linguistic systems.Every translator of Calvino’s work is always forced to choose what seems to be the most adequate and appropriate solution, accepting the inevitable loss. The difficult process of translation makes of him the mediator between two languages, two cultures and traditions. That is why high fidelity of translation requires non only the linguistic fluency and flexibility but also the particular artistic sensitivity, enriched with the ability of reasonable interpretation that allows the reader to understand what could remain in shadow as it belongs to the extralinguistic context. Paradoxically all this seems to be more difficult that writing the original work.
ABstract: Postcolonial literature, which did not appear in Italy until the 1980s, started to flou... more ABstract: Postcolonial literature, which did not appear in Italy until the 1980s, started to flourish in that country in the early 1990s. Although it originated there and draws on Italian historic colonial experiences, it can be understood as a way of emphasising the linguistic and cultural separateness of Italian-speaking authors originating from former Italian colonies in Africa (i.e. Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia). It appears that a country like Italy, which has been deprived of its homogeneity and linguistic and cultural cohesion, is particularly susceptible to the absorption of traditions and languages from outside. Postcolonial literature, which at its very basic level is a hybrid, cannot be pushed into the framework of one convention or tradition. On the contrary, it fits well into the mainstream of non-canonical, avant-garde and expressionistic literature that has been present since Dante. Igiaba Scego, the author of Oltre Babilonia, published in 2008, belongs to the generation of young Italian writers of African origin. The article aims to analyse the novel in terms of writing techniques defined as expressionistic at the level of surface, typology of characters and linguistic and stylistic features.
Michele Mari, który zadebiutował pod koniec lat 80. XX wieku, jest autorem dzieł z zakresu prozy,... more Michele Mari, który zadebiutował pod koniec lat 80. XX wieku, jest autorem dzieł z zakresu prozy, poezji i dramatu i uważa się go za jednego z klasyków literatury. Jego nazwisko bardzo często wymienia się obok takich sław jak Gadda i Consolo. Już jego debiut literacki ukazał go jako stojącego w opozycji do współczesnego stylu i tematów, które rządziły literaturą do tamtej pory. Jeśli chodzi o te dwa aspekty dzieła literackiego, Mari korzysta z bagażu tradycji literackiej, zarówno włoskiej, jak i europejskiej, nie ograniczając się jedynie do postmodernistycznej techniki cytowania i odniesienia. Tradycja w jego twórczości jest wykorzystywana w sposób twórczy i przekształcana w materię, która pozwala na oryginalną interpretację współczesności. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu ukazanie wybranych elementów językowych i tematycznych, które zostały przekształcone w ten sposób w trzech pierwszych powieściach autora.
L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation ave... more L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation avec l’Autre dans un roman de l’écrivain italien contemporain Mauro Covacich. L’identité, comme structure dynamique et sujette à différentes formes d’influence, dans le roman constitue l’objet d’analyse dans deux de ses dimensions principales. La première est la dimension collective:à travers la narration et l’ensemble des expériences historiques, politiques et culturelles, la collectivité forme l’identité individuelle de chacun de ses membres. La deuxième dimension est celle de l’autoréflexion qui mène à l’individualisation de la personne par rapport à la société. L’autoréflexion se révèle particulièrement importante pour le personnage principal, obligé à confronter son identité individuelle avec celle de l’écrivain, définie comme une fusion de différentes identités des personnages littéraires de ses œuvres. Le roman de Covacich fait partie de la discussion sur l’identité et l’altérité ainsi que du débat initié en Italie dans les années 90, autour de l’autofiction et du réalisme dans la littérature. My history is the history of the Other. Narration and identity in A Nome Tuo by Mauro Covacich This article focuses on the issue of building identity in relation with the Other / Stranger in one of the novels of a contemporary Italian writer, Mauro Covacich. The identity, defined as a dynamic structure that is influenced by numerous things, is shaped in the analysed novel in two dimensions. The first dimension is the community one in which, through narration and common historical, political and cultural experiences, the community is shaping the identity of an individual. The other dimension is that of self-reflexion, which leads to individualization of a person facing the community. Self-reflexion is particularly important when it comes to the main protagonist, who confronts his individual identity with the identity of the writer understood as a combination of various identities that exist in literary protagonists created by that writer. Covacich’s novel falls into the category of literary reflexion over identity and otherness, but it also is a voice in a discussion that took place in Italy in the 90s of the 20th century that focused on autofiction and realism in literature.
From the moment of his literary debut in 1989, Michele Mari is considered to be the representativ... more From the moment of his literary debut in 1989, Michele Mari is considered to be the representative of classic tendencies in contemporary Italian literature. One of the most noticeable characteristics of his writing is the presence of autobiographic elements which appear in all his works with different intensity, but also the archaization of style and language, literary references and metaliterary reflexions. This article aims at showing how the 1992 novel La stiva e l’abisso connects two of those aspects of Mari’s writing: intertextuality and literary references to adventure novel genre, as well as it reflects on the role and value of the literature for the contemporary people. It analyses basic narrative instances, that is the narrator, narrative structure, place and time of events, in order to show how they result in metaliterary reflexion.
Come confermano i più recenti studi psicologici, gli esseri umani sono per natura votati a raccon... more Come confermano i più recenti studi psicologici, gli esseri umani sono per natura votati a raccontare storie. L'innata capacità di tessere racconti permette di conferire significato ad esperienze personali e ai vissuti collettivi; narrare significa ordinare il pensiero per mezzo del racconto. La narrazione costituisce lo strumento principale della costruzione e della diffusione sociale del sapere logico: si memorizza meglio quello che si è in grado di raccontare. Le grandi narrazioni, come sostiene François Lyotard, hanno costituito per secoli il fondamento del processo di trasmissione ed elaborazione del sapere nelle società occidentali più evolute. L'etimologia di questa prima e primordiale funzione del racconto si ricava dall'etimologia del termine narrare, che, derivato dal latino gnarus-'consapevole' e dal verbo gnarigare-'conoscere', nella sua accezione rara e antica conserva il significato di esporre con chiarezza, spiegare, rivelare, dare notizia e far capire, far conoscere raccontando. Oggigiorno si nota, nei confronti del concetto di narrazione, un'incongruenza. Da una parte si contesta la sua validità come strumento dell'acquisizione del sapere (fine delle grandi narrazioni secondo Lyotard); dall'altra parte la tecnica narrazionale si diffonde sempre di più in molti campi di ricerca. Infatti, a partire dal narrative turn degli anni Ottanta l'interesse per la narrazione si estende a dismisura, coinvolgendo neuroscienziati, biologi, filosofi, psicologi (Jerome Bruner, Mark Turner) e sociologi (concetto di homo narrans di Walter R. Fisher), tanto da giungere all'affermazione che la narrazione non è un semplice mezzo di comunicazione o di espressione artistica bensì uno strumento di pensiero e dell'organizzazione dell'esperienza. La forma di ragionamento definita "pensiero narrativo" si rivela utile come strumento ordinatore di vari settori del sapere umano, ma trova la sua espressione sublimata nella creatività letteraria. Nel campo letterario siamo ormai in una nuova fase degli studi sulla narrazione, che vede superati sia l'approccio formale e strutturalista (Propp, Todorov, Brémond, Barthes, Genette), sia quello intento allo studio semiotico (Greimas,
Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in M... more Italianness created from the pleasure of (using) your mother tongue. the past and the future in Michele Mari novels-michele mari, who debuted towards the end of the 80s of the 20th century, has written prose, poetry and drama and is considered to be one of the classics of literature. His name is very often mentioned together with such famous writers as gadda and Consolo. Already his literary debut showed him in opposition to the contemporary style and themes that ruled the literature. When it comes to those two aspects of a literary work, mari uses a baggage of literary tradition, both Italian and European, without limiting it only to the postmodern technique of quote and reference. The tradition in his works is used in a creative way and is converted into a matter which allows for an original interpretation of the contemporary times. This article aims at showing selected linguistic and thematic elements which are transformed in this way in the first three novels of the author.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
Artykuł poddaje analizie motywy topiczne muru, ściany i domu w utworach jednego z największych pr... more Artykuł poddaje analizie motywy topiczne muru, ściany i domu w utworach jednego z największych prozaików włoskich dwudziestego wieku, Carla Emilia Gaddy. Motywy te częścią szerokiego projektu pisarskiego autora, którego celem było zobrazowanie i skatalogowanie całej materialnej rzeczywistości. Elementy te pojawiają się jako części większej całości: bezpiecznego domu i prywatnej nieprzekraczalnej przestrzeni, ale także jako symbol ograniczeń, drobnomieszczańskich konwenansów czy też miejsce cierpienia i wyrzeczeń. W posługiwaniu się elementami architektonicznymi Gadda zwraca uwagę na najdrobniejsze szczegóły i funkcje budujące całość. Sięgając po odniesienia architektoniczne takie jak mur i dom, Gadda czyni je częściami skomplikowanego systemu relacji metaforycznych, poprzez które pisarz podejmuje próbę ujarzmienia chaotycznej rzeczywistości. Mury i ściany willi, apartamentów, robotniczych mieszkań, wiejskich dworków, a także wyniosłe kamienne ogrodzenia często mają dwojakie znaczenie i rolę: oddzielają od świata i chronią przed jego chaosem lub też są wytworami znienawidzonej przez pisarza drobnomieszczańskiej kultury, znakami jej wątpliwego bogactwa i złego gustu i dlatego stają się obiektem krytyki. W niektórych utworach stają się symbolem pragnienia samoizolacji bohatera. Na poziomie struktury narracyjnej motywy muru i ściany stają się pretekstem do rozwinięcia dygresyjnego czy też rozbudowanej pauzy, co w rezultacie daje efekt rozbicia diegezy, która pozostaje niedokończona i fragmentaryczna.
La letteratura è ossessione. Tredici voci per Michele Mari, 2022
L’espressionismo di Michele Mari si manifesta non solo attraverso l’ostinata messa in dubbio dei ... more L’espressionismo di Michele Mari si manifesta non solo attraverso l’ostinata messa in dubbio dei consueti codici linguistici a favore del plurilinguismo e pluristilismo, testimoni di uno spirito ribelle ed anticanonico. Anche l’immaginario dello scrittore perpetua alcuni motivi topici della tendenza: un io parlante fortemente marcato, la propensione per i momenti di contatto con il pubblico, il rifiuto della rappresentazione immediata della realtà e la sua trasfigurazione soggettivizzata, la ricerca di una verità sovratemporale sul mondo nata dalla fusione delle contraddizioni, rendono la scrittura di Mari affine alla tendenza. Ma l’essenza dell’espressionismo di Mari sta nella sua insofferenza del presente, nell’altezzoso ribrezzo provato nei confronti della banalità del quotidiano che sfocia nell’esibizione di una sofisticata letterarietà in cui l’espressione precede e sopravanza la realtà.
L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation ave... more L’article se concentre sur le problème de la construction de l’identité à travers la relation avec l’Autre dans un roman de l’écrivain italien contemporain Mauro Covacich. L’identité, comme structure dynamique et sujette à différentes formes d’influence, dans le roman constitue l’objet d’analyse dans deux de ses dimensions principales. La première est la dimension collective:à travers la narration et l’ensemble des expériences historiques, politiques et culturelles, la collectivité forme l’identité individuelle de chacun de ses membres. La deuxième dimension est celle de l’autoréflexion qui mène à l’individualisation de la personne par rapport à la société. L’autoréflexion se révèle particulièrement importante pour le personnage principal, obligé à confronter son identité individuelle avec celle de l’écrivain, définie comme une fusion de différentes identités des personnages littéraires de ses œuvres. Le roman de Covacich fait partie de la discussion sur l’identité et l’altérité ainsi que du débat initié en Italie dans les années 90, autour de l’autofiction et du réalisme dans la littérature. My history is the history of the Other. Narration and identity in A Nome Tuo by Mauro Covacich This article focuses on the issue of building identity in relation with the Other / Stranger in one of the novels of a contemporary Italian writer, Mauro Covacich. The identity, defined as a dynamic structure that is influenced by numerous things, is shaped in the analysed novel in two dimensions. The first dimension is the community one in which, through narration and common historical, political and cultural experiences, the community is shaping the identity of an individual. The other dimension is that of self-reflexion, which leads to individualization of a person facing the community. Self-reflexion is particularly important when it comes to the main protagonist, who confronts his individual identity with the identity of the writer understood as a combination of various identities that exist in literary protagonists created by that writer. Covacich’s novel falls into the category of literary reflexion over identity and otherness, but it also is a voice in a discussion that took place in Italy in the 90s of the 20th century that focused on autofiction and realism in literature.
Varianti dell’espressionismo nella narrativa italiana postmoderna 1980–2000, 2018
Contemporary culture puts differences and multiplicity in opposition to the former urge of unifor... more Contemporary culture puts differences and multiplicity in opposition to the former urge of uniformizing; it eliminates continuity in favour of contingency; it values diversity and otherness over identity and similarity, and it rejects neatness and safety of theoretical conceptualizations. An attempt at validating the claim that also today a certain aesthetic and literary movement lives on, which for some scholars is nothing more than a historical phenomenon from the past, may seem to be an empty and hopelessly unreal rhetorical strategy. Yet, for the present monograph, the point of departure is an the assumption that artistic texts appearing and functioning in a specific cultural environment and tradition should have a feature in common. And to this particular feature, defined as Expressionism, the present work has been devoted to.
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anticanonico. Anche l’immaginario dello scrittore perpetua alcuni motivi topici della tendenza: un io parlante fortemente marcato, la propensione per i momenti di contatto con il pubblico, il rifiuto della rappresentazione immediata della realtà e la sua trasfigurazione soggettivizzata, la ricerca di una verità sovratemporale sul mondo nata dalla fusione delle
contraddizioni, rendono la scrittura di Mari affine alla tendenza. Ma l’essenza dell’espressionismo di Mari sta nella sua insofferenza del presente, nell’altezzoso ribrezzo provato nei confronti della banalità del
quotidiano che sfocia nell’esibizione di una sofisticata letterarietà in cui l’espressione precede e sopravanza la realtà.
dimension collective:à travers la narration et l’ensemble des expériences historiques, politiques et culturelles, la collectivité forme l’identité individuelle de chacun de ses membres. La deuxième dimension est celle de l’autoréflexion qui mène à l’individualisation de la personne par rapport à la société. L’autoréflexion se révèle particulièrement importante pour le personnage principal, obligé à confronter son identité individuelle avec
celle de l’écrivain, définie comme une fusion de différentes identités des personnages littéraires de ses œuvres. Le roman de Covacich fait partie de la discussion sur l’identité et l’altérité ainsi que du débat initié en Italie dans les années 90, autour de l’autofiction et du réalisme dans la littérature.
My history is the history of the Other. Narration and identity in A Nome Tuo by Mauro
Covacich
This article focuses on the issue of building identity in relation with the Other / Stranger in one of the novels of a contemporary Italian writer, Mauro Covacich. The identity, defined as a dynamic structure that is influenced by numerous things, is shaped in the analysed novel in two dimensions. The first dimension is the community one in which, through
narration and common historical, political and cultural experiences, the community is shaping the identity of an individual. The other dimension is that of self-reflexion, which leads to individualization of a person facing the community. Self-reflexion is particularly important when it comes to the main protagonist, who confronts his individual identity with the identity of the writer understood as a combination of various identities that exist in literary protagonists created by that writer. Covacich’s novel falls into the category of literary reflexion over identity and otherness, but it also is a voice in a discussion that took place in Italy in the 90s of the 20th century that focused on autofiction and realism in literature.