Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 9/2019 według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 15-25 z 25
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Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis
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“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s "The Glorious Heresies" (2015) and "The Blood Miracles" (2017)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut The Glorious Heresies (2015) and its continuation The Blood Miracles ... -
The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s "The Sisters Brothers"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores Eli Sisters as a reinvigorated rogue who finds his artistic calling in Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, published in 2011. With the help of insights from narratology and genre theory, the article ... -
Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my ... -
“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this paper I assess how Guy Vanderhaeghe’s early fiction criticizes the class-based and civil movements of post-1960s Saskatchewan through the recurring character of Ed. The protagonist of “Man Descending” and “Sam, ... -
Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article explores the potential “healing” role performance art can have when representing disabling trauma, and engaging, as part of the creative process, participants who have experienced in their lives significant ... -
Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)It was in the mid-twentieth century that the independent theatrical form based entirely on improvisation, known now as improvisational/improvised theatre, impro or improv, came into existence and took shape. Viola Spolin, ... -
Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s "Black Money"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In his early career, Kenneth Millar, better known as Ross Macdonald, emulated the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. By the 1960s he had established himself as a distinct voice in the hardboiled genre. In his ... -
What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In his pioneering study of Grande Dame Guignol (also referred to as hag horror or psycho-biddy), a female-centric 1960s subgenre of horror film, Peter Shelley explains that the grande dame, a stock character in this form ... -
A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s "The Songlines" Reconsidered
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article revisits, analyzes and critiques Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 bestseller, The Songlines, more than three decades after its publication. In Songlines, the book primarily responsible for his posthumous celebrity, Chatwin ... -
“You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s "Monster" as Rogue Cinema
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Film is a powerful medium that can influence audience’s perceptions, values and ideals. As filmmaking evolved into a serious art form, it became a powerful tool for telling stories that require us to re-examine our ideology. ...