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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 ... -
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 ... -
Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. ... -
Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk ... -
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IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This essay is about the essay, a form (as Adorno called it) of thought alive that is partial in the two senses of the word: subjective and fragmented. Thinking as social, performative, and always un-finished; as dialogic. ... -
“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention. This article finds ... -
Joe Brainard’s "I Remember", Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Paul Ricoeur declares that “being-entangled in stories” is an inherent property of the human condition. He introduces the notion of narrative identity—a form of identity constructed on the basis of a self-constructed ... -
Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s ... -
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
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Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem. That is, a better ...