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A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of ... -
Going to America to See the Fens Better? Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article analyzes the changes introduced in the adaptation, including the shift of the contemporary action from Greenwich, England to the American city of Pittsburgh. The way of connecting the present with the past by ... -
A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in ... -
Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
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The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgiveness and justice in The Tragedy of King Lear. In my reading I employ Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological reflection on the ... -
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, ... -
Gothic Matters: Introduction
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Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article explores the way American author Cormac McCarthy uses the Gothic genre in his novel The Road as a means to address what has been called “our globalized order,” in particular the way it has turned human beings ... -
Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022)
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Grievable Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: US-American Television, Melodrama and the Work of Mourning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The present article applies Judith Butler’s notion of “grievable life” to reflect on the manner in which selected US-American television series engaged in the work of mourning and memorializing the loss of life in the first ... -
Griselda’s Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and the Tale of Magic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Some influence of Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale, also known as the story of the patient Griselda, on Shakespeare, and particularly on The Winter’s Tale, has long been recognized. It seems, however, that the matter deserves ... -
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 ...