Przeglądaj Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 3/2013 według tytułu
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A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of ... -
“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings. They are especially visible ... -
In a World Characterized by Transience and Doomed to Extinction Some Old Women Still Need Love —Mrs Rooney from Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article analyzes the world of transience, deterioration and death characteristic of Boghill, the place of action of Samuel Beckett’s short radio play-All That Fall. In a broadcast drama, existence is equivalent to being ... -
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ... -
Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011)
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On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ... -
“On the radio the pictures are better”
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Pornography Debate, Gaze and Spectatorship in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels has been described as a voice in the debate on pornography, expressing the anti-pornography position as opposed to the liberal feminist stance in this debate. Despite its ideological clarity ... -
Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
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Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did ... -
“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
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“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual ...