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Andrea F. De Carlo
Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Andrea F. De Carlo teaches Polish Language and Literature at “L’Orientale” University of Naples and at University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) with a thesis on Dante in 19th century Poland. A comparison between the different translations of The Divine Comedy by Kraszewski, Korsak, Stanisławski and Porębowicz. He is currently analyzing the critical edition of The Divine Comedy translated by J.I. Kraszewski. His research interests focus on Polish literature, cultural relationships between Italy and Poland and poetic translation.
Athena redeemed: Stanisława Przybyszewska by Izabela Filipiak
In feminist criticism, the mythological figure of Athena appears rarely and more often in a role of anti-heroine, daughter and protector of the patriarchate. In the short introductory essay, published in the brochure of Anna Schiller’s play Stacha (2001), dedicated to Stanisława Przybyszewska (1901-1935), illegitimate daughter of the famous modernist writer Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868-1927), the contemporary Polish writer Izabela Filipiak (b. 1961) rehabilitates the mythological figure of the Greek goddess as a symbol of female creativity and literary production. In Filipiak essayist, therefore, appears a new female mythologem, which is grafted into the broader and more general plan of the writers to create a mythology uncontaminated by the “fathers” and their language in open contrast to the patriarchal tales about women.
My paper consequently aims to analyze not only the literary essay on Przybyszewska in the light of feminist criticism and the specificities of the myth rewritten by Filipiak, but also some of the most indicative problematic nuclei of the reflection on writing and its intellectual message.
