Przeglądaj Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 5/2015 według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 13-18 z 18
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The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting ... -
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ... -
Thoreau and Spadina Dreamers Unite: Idealistic Communities in Canadian Publishing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The rise of Canadian national identity in the 1960s contributed to a flourishing small press movement across the country. One of the most impressive, long-standing and influential presses of this era was Coach House Press, ... -
thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In these paintings, visual and verbal languages provide us with different maps of the same territory; and Thurnauer’s hybridized representations argue that the world can only be rendered through a dialogue, an interlocution ... -
To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This essay addresses the much discussed problem of archiving digital poetry. Digital media are labile, and several writers of digital poetry are incorporating the media’s ephemerality into their poetics. Rather than rehash ... -
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article deals with the concept of femme fatale as presented in Gladys Huntington’s 1956 novel Madame Solario. The eponymous protagonist, Natalia Solario, displays several characteristics of this female archetype, ...