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"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 ... -
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 ... -
Let Rhoda Speak Again: Identity, Uncertainty, and Authority in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Performing a rereading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental modernist masterpiece of The Waves, in this article I focus on the elusive and conflicted character of Rhoda, whose significance has been either overlooked or ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
New Media Effects on Traditional News Sources: A Review of the State of American Newspapers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The New Media are having dramatic effects on all parts of American culture and on all types of Old Media, but newspapers seem to be suffering the most. Basically, the internet is taking away newspaper readers, lowering the ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
Review of The Body, ed. by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow
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“Taste good iny?”: Images of and from Australian Indigenous Literature Jared Thomas speaks with Teresa Podemska-Abt
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The Artist and Religion in the Contemporary World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Although we begin with the words of the poet Henry Vaughan, it is the visual artists above all who know and see the mystery of the Creation of all things in light, suffering for their art in its blinding, sacrificial ... -
The Hidden Gaze of the Other in Michael Haneke’s Hidden
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2001)In his 2005 French production Hidden (Caché), Michael Haneke continues disturbing his audience with poignant and stirring images. When Georges and Anna Laurent keep finding on their doorstep videotapes showing the exterior ... -
The Poet’s “Caressive Sight:” Denise Levertov’s Transactions with Nature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The scientific consciousness which broke with the holistic perception of life is credited with “unweaving the rainbow,” or disenchanting the world. No longer perceived as sacred, the non-human world of plants and animals ... -
The Use of Ulster Speech by Michael Longley and Tom Paulin
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The article examines the application and exploration of Ulster dialects in the work of two poets of Northern Irish Protestant background, Tom Paulin and Michael Longley. It depicts Paulin’s attitude to the past and the ... -
Tributes to Professor Andrzej Kopcewicz
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Who Are You, Mrs Walter Shandy, Aberratio Naturae?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine the critically unacknowledged aspect of the canonical Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: the authorial delineation and narrative management of the character of Mrs Shandy, who is a ... -
Woman and Authority in Ian McEwan’s “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” and Its Film Adaptation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The paper analyzes Ian McEwan’s short story “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” (published in 1975) and its film adaptation made in Poland by director Mariusz Grzegorzek in 1993. In many works McEwan shows women in more ... -
Women’s Power To Be Loud: The Authority of the Discourse and Authority of the Text in Mary Dorcey’s Irish Lesbian Poetic Manifesto “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey’s poem “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear,” included in the 1991 volume Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers. Apart from being a well-known and critically ... -
Writing About a Woman Writer’s Writing: On Gender Identification(s) and Being a Male Critic of Carol Shields’s Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)This essay takes as its starting point my experience as a male critic of Carol Shields’s work. Throughout the researching and writing of my PhD on Shields, I have noted with curiosity the surprise registered by many people ...