Przeglądaj Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 2/2012 według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 17-21 z 21
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Reviews/Interviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) -
The Shortest Way to Modernity Is via the Margins: J.H. Prynne’s Later Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In the essay an attempt is made to investigate the processes of construction and reconstruction of meaning in the later books of the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne. It has been argued that his poetry disturbs the act of ... -
“Throw[ing] the Longest Shadows”: The Significance of the Bogus Quotation for Arcadia by Jim Crace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Preceding his Arcadia with a non-existing quotation, Jim Crace proves to be no Arcadian innocent: challenging the shrewdness of his readers, the contemporary novelist seems to take pleasure in inviting them to an intellectual ... -
Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed ... -
Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ...