Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 4/2014
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CONTENT
Pamela Sue Anderson
A Special Guest Of Text Matters
A Conversation—Dorota Filipczak
RE-VISIONING RICOEUR AND KRISTEVA
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Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject
Pamela Sue Anderson
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“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
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To Look at Things as if They Could Be Otherwise: Educating the Imagination
Laurie Anderson
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Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse
John Crowley-Buck
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection
Stephanie Arel
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“When China Meets China”: Sinéad Morrissey’s Figurations of the Orient, or the Function of Alterity in Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur
Grzegorz Czemiel
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Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
Joshua Roe
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Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
Sylvie Gambaudo
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Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft
Dorota Filipczak
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Taking Sides on Severed Heads: Kristeva at the Louvre
Alison Jasper
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Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic
Agnieszka Łowczanin
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A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred
Małgorzata Dąbrowska
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics
Jan Jędrzejewski
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Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth
Wit Pietrzak
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A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy
Michael D’Angeli
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The Privilege to Write What You Want
Roddy Doyle Talks to Joanna Kosmalska
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Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
Joanna Czechowska Speaks with Joanna Kosmalska
CONTINUITIES: EROTICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
IRISH THEMES
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Recent Submissions
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of which his work tends to be ... -
Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014) -
The Privilege to Write What You Want
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014) -
Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)While it has been omitted by numerous critics in their otherwise comprehensive readings of Yeats’s oeuvre, “Beautiful Lofty Things” has been placed among the mythical poems, partly in accordance with Yeats’s own intention; ... -
A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Fordham UP, 2013)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25) -
A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child. The queen ... -
Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead ... -
Taking Sides on Severed Heads: Kristeva at the Louvre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The theorist and philosopher Julia Kristeva is invited to curate an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris as part of a series-Parti Pris (Taking Sides)- and to turn this into a book, The Severed Head: Capital Visions. The ... -
Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The article applies selected concepts from the writings of Julia Kristeva to the analysis of a novel by Doris Lessing entitled The Cleft. Published in 2007, The Cleft depicts the origin of sexual difference in the human ... -
“When China Meets China”: Sinéad Morrissey’s Figurations of the Orient, or the Function of Alterity in Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This article attempts to investigate the potential resonances between Paul Ricoeur’s and Julia Kristeva’s theories of otherness as applied to the study of poetry by the Northern-Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey. In all of her ... -
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a ... -
“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The author of the paper analyzes John Milton’s great epic narrative through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical reflection, in particular the second chapter of the philosopher’s last ... -
Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)How can we, as individuals and as members of religious, educational, and/ or social institutions, more adequately respond to the crises of sexual abuse that have come to light in recent years? This paper will address this ... -
Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, “visible” ... -
A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”
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Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)