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Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)At Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a ... -
Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through ... -
Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe’s award-winning memoir, of this earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006), invites readers into a warm subjective realm in which a meditative Wiebe (b. 1934) recounts his growing-up ... -
Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)What happens once the rogue rides off into the sunset? This cross-genre essay considers the figure of the rogue’s decline and gradual dismemberment in the face of the pressures of the world. Beginning with the “rogue” ... -
Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since ... -
Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” is a particularly noteworthy example of the sublime, a psychological state in which one is overwhelmed by the magnitude of that which is perceived ... -
Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article analyzes how mainstream artists respond to the dynamics of online fan communities, developing complex metanarratives that interrelate their songs and music videos with their “personal” activity on social media. ... -
Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the ... -
Michael Longley and Birds
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such ... -
Michèle Le Doeuff's "Primal Scene": Prohibition and Confidence in the Education of a Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)My essay begins with Michèle Le Doeuff's singular account of the "primal scene" in her own education as a woman, illustrating a universally significant point about the way(s) in which education can differ for men and women: ... -
Michèle Roberts: Female Genius and the Theology of an English Novelist
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Since Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex in 1949, feminist analysis has tended to assume that the conditions of male normativity—reducing woman to the merely excluded "Other" of man—holds true in the experience ... -
Mimesis in Crisis: Narration and Diegesis in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre and Drama
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The main objective of my article is to investigate the ways in which contemporary Anglophone drama and theatre actively employ diegetic and narrative forms, setting them in conflict with the mimetic action. The mode of ... -
Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay analyzes Michèle Roberts’s 2012 story “On the Beach at Trouville” as an ekphrasis of Claude Monet’s early Impressionist painting, The Beach at Trouville. It first approaches the narrative though W. J. T. Mitchell’s ... -
The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions ... -
“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum. -
Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The aim of the article is to compare three (re)creative activities within one interdisciplinary project: a public space (14 Henrietta St. Museum in Dublin), poetry (Paula Meehan’s cycle of sonnets in Museum of 2019) and ... -
“My Monster Self”: Violence and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Margaret Atwood’s novels are usually celebrated for their blunt feminism. However, in Moral Disorder—a series of interconnected stories that forms a novel—feminist concerns are replaced with worries about territory and ... -
Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, and often wandering and wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many of Jarman’s stories—stories that are marked not ... -
Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Addressing trauma as a phenomenon which happens on the level of the human psyche and body, this article explores the impact of the interlocking nature of human lingual and bodily being in discovering a fuller possibility ... -
The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent acknowledgement of the Anthropocene, resulting from the increasingly visible human-induced effects on the biosphere, has ultimately obliterated the nature/culture division (Latour; Chakrabarty), prompting ...