JULIUSZ SLOWACKI'S 'MAZEPPA' AS A DRAMA OF MIMETIC DESIRE ('Mazepa' Juliusza Slowackiego jako dramat mimetycznego pragnienia)

• Authors: Ziemba Kwiryna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In its character, the paper reveals an interpretation of Juliusz Slowacki's drama, and as its theme it develops the scenes of future Ukrainian hetman's life prior to the forced, back to front, unusual Mazeppa's nude bareback riding achievement fixed in his legend and in Western art. The authoress points at the elements of imitation, reflections and echo in the space construction, the action, and the characters' behavior to state that it is a mimetic desire (René Girard's literary criticism category) that directs the lifes of the protagonists. The analysis of the mimetic relations between the characters brings out Mazeppa's double Ukrainian-Polish identity, and Slowacki's understanding of the connections between the aforementioned countries set in the drama. Moreover, the article questions the title protagonist's idealizing interpretations: the authoress is more likely to link him rather with the heroes of ethnic and cultural borderlands of the pre-partition Polish Republic and Lithuania than with a set of morally developing figures from Slowacki's mystical period.

Keywords

EN

SLOWACKI JULIUSZ; SLOWACKI'S 'MAZEPPA'

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 61-85
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ziemba Kwiryna

• Kwiryna Ziemba, Uniwersytet Gdanski, ul. Bazynskiego 1a, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06723