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Imagining Hedda Gabler: Munch and Ibsen on Art and Modern Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Among Edvard Munch’s many portraits of Henrik Ibsen, the famous Norwegian dramatist and Munch’s senior by a generation, one stands out. Large in scope and with a characteristic pallet of roughly hewed gray blue, green and ... -
Literature That Saves: Matilda as a Reader of Great Expectations in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article reflects on the therapeutic and ethical potential of literature, the theme which is often marginalized and overlooked by literary critics, in the novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Matilda, the main character of ... -
Mimesis in Crisis: Narration and Diegesis in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre and Drama
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The main objective of my article is to investigate the ways in which contemporary Anglophone drama and theatre actively employ diegetic and narrative forms, setting them in conflict with the mimetic action. The mode of ... -
Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing ... -
The Paramount Role of Translation in Modern Opera Productions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Opera is undoubtedly a particularly high and traditional genre of art, but recently there have been numerous attempts at breaking this stereotype and presenting opera in a contemporary light. The most popular way of achieving ... -
Pinteresque Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The expression “Pinteresque” describing the characteristic features of Harold Pinter’s artistic output, established its position as a literary critical denominator many years ago. The aim of this article is to analyze some ... -
Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This article is an edited version of the response paper offered at the conclusion of the symposium, Modern Sensibilities. It ties together themes from the symposium papers, as well as ideas prompted by Mieke Bal’s exhibition, ... -
Sensing the Present: “Conceptual Art of the Senses”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)After Rachel E. Burke briefly introduces the essays presented with a focus on our contemporary relationship to modern subjectivity, Mieke Bal will make the case for the sense of presentness on an affective and sensuous ... -
Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare—Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest—in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency ... -
Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This paper proposes a conversation between Charlotte Salomon (1917–43) and Edvard Munch that is premised on a reading of Charlotte Salomon’s monumental project of 784 paintings forming a single work Leben? oder Theater? ... -
Theatre as Contagion: Making Sense of Communication in Performative Arts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Contagion is more than an epidemiological fact. The medical usage of the term is no more and no less metaphorical than in the entire history of explanations of how beliefs circulate in social interactions. The circulation ... -
Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism. Their work produces an intertemporal ... -
Wawel Meets Elsinore. The National and Universal Aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The aim of this paper is to show the role, the possibilities and the limits of Wyspiański’s national thinking through Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Of particular importance, in this context, is the role the Ghost takes in Wyspiański’s ...