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Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)
Particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century sensorial experiences changed at breakneck speed. Social and technological developments of modernity like the industrial revolution, rapid urban expansion, the ...
”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 ...
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 ...
Sensorial Aesthetics: Cross-Modal Stylistics in Modernist Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
This article argues that modernist fiction pointedly involves all our senses as part of its reaction to the project of modernity and progress, as well as to Victorian realism; it is not just a response to a heighted ...
Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)
The paper analyzes selections from Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, to study the complex act of nation-building taking place in India during the first half of the twentieth century. Through these periodicals, it ...