Browsing Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture by Title
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Harry Styles as a Cecaelia: Sexuality, Representation and Media-lore in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The music video for Harry Styles’s 2022 track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (directed by Aube Perrie) provides a surprising representation of the pop star (arguably at the peak of his career) appearing as a cecaelia (a ... -
Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered ... -
”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support ... -
Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1934) remains well-read, and its hero Hercule Poirot continues to enjoy popular currency. Yet the text has not aged well due to some of its now clichéd plot developments and ... -
Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation ... -
Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this article I consider a certain characteristic of our times as a “secular age,” namely, a series of complications in our understanding of transgression. Transgression implies the presence of some rules and laws which ... -
How Deep Time Can Help Shape the Present: Existential Economics, “Joyful Insignificance” and the Future of the Ecological Transition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)An awareness of deep time—both humanity’s deep past and the Earth’s deep future—and an understanding of its existential implications can significantly enhance the chances that humanity might still be able to transition ... -
“How Do You Know Who You Are?”: Marjorie Prime on Envisioning Humanity Through the Faculty of AI-Powered Memory as Reconstructive Tissue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)In reference to the theme of the issue devoted to literary extremities, Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime raises thought-provoking questions about the potential benefits and drawbacks of advanced AI technology by ... -
HTML Texts and the Dawn of Asemic Digital Literature: Exploring Dennis Cooper’s Ideas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Dennis Cooper’s HTML texts which use Graphic Interchange Format (GIFs) instead of traditional glyph-based text, exhibit the extremities of our times, both thematically and structurally, through the radical temporality of ... -
“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings. They are especially visible ... -
Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. ... -
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 ... -
In a World Characterized by Transience and Doomed to Extinction Some Old Women Still Need Love —Mrs Rooney from Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article analyzes the world of transience, deterioration and death characteristic of Boghill, the place of action of Samuel Beckett’s short radio play-All That Fall. In a broadcast drama, existence is equivalent to being ... -
In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Some people live to work, others work to live, while still others prefer to live lives of leisure. Since the Puritans, American culture and literature have been dominated by individuals who have valued hard work. However, ... -
In the Flesh and the Gothic Pharmacology of Everyday Life; or Into and Out of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)One of the key questions facing Gothic Studies today is that of its migration into and out of its once familiar generic or symbolic modes of representation. The BBC series In the Flesh addresses these concerns against the ... -
In the Universe of Cassandra: The Ancient Topos of Clairvoyance in the Futuristic World of Minority Report (2002)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The figure of Cassandra is well-known from numerous representations in ancient and modern literature as an archetype of a woman who has the power to see the future, but whose visions are not believed. In ancient Greek ... -
"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 ... -
“An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”: Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Carl Jung paid a short visit to Taos, New Mexico, in January 1925. A brief account of his stay at the Pueblo appeared in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffe in 1963. Remembering his conversations with ... -
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 ...