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Engaging the “Forbidden Texts” of Philosophy Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Alison Jasper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
“Taste good iny?”: Images of and from Australian Indigenous Literature Jared Thomas speaks with Teresa Podemska-Abt
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
Inner Strength of Female Characters in Loitering with Intent and The Public Image by Muriel Spark
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
Women characters in Muriel Spark’s novels are diverse, some strong and powerful, some weak and unable to make decisions. And there are characters who develop throughout the novel and learn from their own mistakes. From ...
The Poet’s “Caressive Sight:” Denise Levertov’s Transactions with Nature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
The scientific consciousness which broke with the holistic perception of life is credited with “unweaving the rainbow,” or disenchanting the world. No longer perceived as sacred, the non-human world of plants and animals ...
"Initium ut esset, creatus est homo": Iris Murdoch on Authority and Creativity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
In 1970 the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch published both her thirteenth novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, and her best known work of philosophy, The Sovereignty of Good. Given the proximity of these ...
Women’s Power To Be Loud: The Authority of the Discourse and Authority of the Text in Mary Dorcey’s Irish Lesbian Poetic Manifesto “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey’s poem “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear,” included in the 1991 volume Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers. Apart from being a well-known and critically ...
Woman and Authority in Ian McEwan’s “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” and Its Film Adaptation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
The paper analyzes Ian McEwan’s short story “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” (published in 1975) and its film adaptation made in Poland by director Mariusz Grzegorzek in 1993. In many works McEwan shows women in more ...
Writing About a Woman Writer’s Writing: On Gender Identification(s) and Being a Male Critic of Carol Shields’s Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
This essay takes as its starting point my experience as a male critic of Carol Shields’s work. Throughout the researching and writing of my PhD on Shields, I have noted with curiosity the surprise registered by many people ...
Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe’s award-winning memoir, of this earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006), invites readers into a warm subjective realm in which a meditative Wiebe (b. 1934) recounts his growing-up ...
Michèle Le Doeuff's "Primal Scene": Prohibition and Confidence in the Education of a Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
My essay begins with Michèle Le Doeuff's singular account of the "primal scene" in her own education as a woman, illustrating a universally significant point about the way(s) in which education can differ for men and women: ...