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"Of all creatures women be best, / Cuius contrarium verum est": Gendered Power in Selected Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine images of the relationship between men and women in selected late medieval and early modern English texts. I will identify prevalent ideology of representation of women as well as typical ... -
Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Imagining super rich women in the real and fictional world has long been a struggle. Those few depictions that do exist are scattered across time periods and literary genres, reflecting the legal restrictions that, at ... -
On (Not) Being Milton: Tony Harrison’s Liminal Voice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The paper examines the relation between poetic identity, whose ongoing construction remains one of the most persistently reoccurring themes of Harrison’s work, and the liminal position occupied by the speaker of Harrison’s ... -
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ... -
“On the radio the pictures are better”
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On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with a focus on textual manifestations of the figure of the trickster. The theme of shape-shifting and transformation that one usually associates with tricksters is ... -
One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations with a focus on various modes of transtranslation/transcreation/transaption of Matsuo Bashō’s famous frog haiku. The emphasis is placed on the complexities (of ... -
One, Mad Hornpipe: Dance as a Tool of Subversion in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The plot of Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney oscillates around the theme of perception, blindness and eye-sight recovery. Although visually impaired, the eponymous character is a self-reliant and independent person who is very ... -
Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)From the onset of the indefinite deferral of our previously taken-for-granted lives, an abundance of humorous online cartoons, jokes, memes, videos and other satirical material relating to the COVID-19 outbreak—and its ... -
“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)It seems that in order to overcome the current ecological crisis we need a new (global?) narrative. If the narrative of “progress” that has functioned as one of the Western cultural myths is linked to the notions of modernity ... -
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery ... -
“Our Eyes Adjust to the Dark”: The Cosmic Sublime in Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The cosmic sublime, as the most spectacular manifestation of the natural sublime, offers rich stimuli for the literary imagination, as well as for various interactions between science, culture and art. In her book of poetry ... -
The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s "Scorpio Rising" and Steven Spielberg’s "Duel"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper analyzes the ways in which Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963) and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971) draw on and challenge selected road movie conventions by adhering to the genre’s traditional reliance on cultural ... -
Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Virginia Foster Durr was born in 1903 in Birmingham, Alabama in a former planter class family, and in spite of the gradual decline in the family fortune, she was brought up as a traditional southern belle, utterly subjected ... -
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys
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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 ... -
“The particulars of loss”: Grief Memoirs and Their Pragmatic Applications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Death is commonly pushed to the periphery in contemporary society, leaving the grief-struck to endure the turbulent nature of their loss alone. Unsurprisingly, our mortality-denying times have witnessed the proliferation ... -
Past Conditional Subjectivities: Enacting Relationships with the Non-Human in the Work of Ana Mendieta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Inspired by what literary scholar Lisa Lowe calls “the past conditional temporality”—or the “what could have been”—this paper examines how the work of 20th-century Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta challenges ... -
”A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)This essay explores the modernist aesthetic involved in creating a fictive, nostalgic, childhood experience. Evoking the experience of childhood through fiction is as close to actually reliving childhood as we can get. The ... -
Performing More-Than-Human Corporeal Connections in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines work by contemporary American artist Kiki Smith, who proposes a future in which human and nonhuman bodily borders merge. The artist’s contribution to the more-than-human artistic entanglements is ...