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Dalí, Disney and Destino: Alchemy in Animation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Salvador Dalí claimed that he made his whole life “a work of alchemy.” He saw in alchemy the principle of metamorphosis and “the transmutation of bodies.” Carl Jung recognized “imaginatio” as the key to alchemy. As Patrick ... -
The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article is, firstly, an analysis of Kreia, a character from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords video game, a character whose role in the game is pivotal: the conversations the player has with ... -
Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about ... -
Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Making reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of ... -
Delimit / De-limit: Barbara Guest at Kandinsky’s Window
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This essay reads Barbara Guest’s poem “The View from Kandinsky’s Window” from her 1989 collection Fair Realism alongside Wassily Kandinsky’s own theories of form and abstraction. It argues that Guest’s poetic reinvention ... -
“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Waged in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed over 20,000 lives according to human rights groups. The Duterte administration’s own count is significantly lower: around 6,000. The huge ... -
Dialogic, but Monologic: Toxic Masculinity Meets #MeToo in Teddy Wayne’s Campus Novel Loner
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Teddy Wayne’s 2016 Loner tells the story of a Harvard freshman’s sexual obsession with a fellow student, leading to stalking and attempted rape. On a deeper level, the campus novel can be interpreted as a critique of wider ... -
Dichotomous Images in McEwan’s Saturday: In Pursuit of Objective Balance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Saturday sets out to depict the contemporary world with its ambiguities and paradox. In the novel, like in a mirror painting, every event, character and conflict is highlighted from diverse, often contradictory, angles by ... -
“Did You See Last Night’s Episode of Ecotopia?”: How a TV Series Could Help Move Climate Action Forward. A Conversation with Elizabeth Watson
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Don DeLillo’s "White Noise": A Virilian Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Don DeLillo’s White Noise depicts a world of rapid techno-scientific and economical changes. Paul Virilio’s concepts of dromology and speed, as well as his notions of accident and technology, seem to be the most relevant ... -
The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The paper attempts to consider the problem of W. H. Auden’s political engagement in the 1930s in the context of his (in)famous decision to leave England and settle down in the USA. The transatlantic journey of the eponymous ... -
Drama is for Life! Recreational Drama Activities for the Elderly in the UK
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Applied Theatre is an inclusive term used to host a variety of powerful, community-based participatory processes and educational practices. Historically, Applied Theatre practices include Theatre-in-Education (TiE), ... -
“The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ... -
Duration of the Archive: Soundscapes of Extreme Witnessing in Divya Victor’s Curb
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This paper examines the significance of soundscapes in the Tamil American poet Divya Victor’s reconstruction of the archive of anti-South Asian violence in her acclaimed poetry collection Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021). Being ... -
Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This article analyzes selected short stories in Cecelia Ahern’s thirty-narrative collection Roar (2018) to see how (and with what losses or gains) the perspectives of posthuman and postfeminist critique can be incorporated ... -
Echoes of Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist Kurtz, of whom we do not, in fact, see much, is shown as connected with a native “sorcerer,” a “witch-man,” who had “antelope horns” on his head. Antelopes, or goats, are typical ... -
Ecotopia. Based on Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Adapted by Elizabeth Watson
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Editorial
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