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Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to Carmilla
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)Stories featuring female vampires transgress moral boundaries and subvert the cultural allocation of gender. The purpose of this paper is to look at the first Victorian example of such a story, “Carmilla” by J. S. Le Fanu, ... -
The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The aim of this paper is to apply Arnold van Gennep’s and Victor Turner’s conceptual scheme of the rite of passage to medieval and early modern visions of the hereafter. Most of the visionary accounts (e.g., Drythelm’s ... -
Transgressing the Normative in Edwin Morgan’s “Message Clear”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)Edwin Morgan’s poetics of the language-game can be seen as functionalised in many contexts: historical, cultural, social, political, and aesthetic. A genuine Scot, known for his subversive political and social views, Morgan ... -
Geographic Transgression and Epic Theatre: The Subversiveness of the Pastoral Idyll in Edward Bond’s Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The pastoral has often been defined in terms of an idyllic retreat where man can regain his former unity with nature, from which he has been alienated as a consequence of urban life. At the same time, however, the pastoral ... -
Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The aim of this paper is to analyze one of the most problematic works of the German poet and philosopher, Friedrich Schiller: his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers, 1782). Following Hammer and Hart’s Gadamerian literary ... -
Legal and Social Discourse of Matrimony in Selected N-Town Cycle Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The Marriage of Mary and Joseph, Joseph’s Doubt and The Trial of Mary and Joseph are fifteenth-century pageants from the cycle known as The N-Town Plays (or Ludus Coventriae). The first centres on legal and social controversies ... -
Staging Transgression Stories in the Later Middle Ages: Divine Fiat, Truth and Justice in the N-Town Play of the Annunciation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The Middle English Annunciation plays dramatise a heterological encounter whose stakes, Mary’s willing collaboration with God in the salvific project, can be brought to bear on both the Christian meta-narrative and the ... -
Introduction
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Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Creative Drama or Scholarly Exercise?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún consists of two long narrative poems on the major events of Völsunga saga, making use, where possible, of eddic sources as well as the saga, and accompanied by notes written ... -
Gender/Genre Disruption in Bryony Lavery’s Her Aching Heart
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The objective of the present paper is to examine the two contrastive yet interconnected processes activated in parody: conservative and revolutionary. The conservative drive is associated with the continuation and reinforcement ... -
The Nature of Contemporary Catharsis in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats…
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)Hester Swane, the protagonist of Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats..., one of the most subversive female characters in modern Irish drama, is a contemporary Medea. As her suffering becomes extreme and her despair escalates, ... -
Sensory Transgression: Literary Representations of Women’s Sight and Hearing in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The article focuses on literary representations of women’s sight and hearing in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It firstly addresses the meaning and significance of sensory perception in Western culture. The emphasis is put ... -
The Mathematics in a Dramatic Text – A Disappearing Number by Complicite
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)A Disappearing Number gives vent to Simon McBurney’s fascination with science, in this case with mathematics. The story of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan constituted the groundwork for the collective theatrical ... -
Quantum Mechanics and the Relativity of Human Identity: Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood has often been discussed as a spy drama employing intertextual references to physics (quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle) and mathematics (Euler’s geometry) to detect a traitor in the English ... -
The Silencing of Dissent: Harold Pinter’s Bleak Political Vision
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)The article centres upon one of Harold Pinter’s last plays, Celebration, first performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 16 March 2000. Similarly to Party Time, a dystopian political play written almost a decade earlier, ... -
“Seeking out Strangeness”: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)Tony Kushner’s 1997 play Homebody/Kabul tells a story of an English woman who decides to leave her cozy London flat, travel to Kabul and marry a Muslim. Her English husband and daughter follow her to Afghanistan only to ... -
«Поэтический ансамбль» Русские боги Даниила Андреева в аспекте интертекстуальности
Banasiak, Daniel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
One of the most mysterious figures in the history of Russian literature, mysticism and philosophy is Daniil Leonidovich Andreev (1906–1959), the son of Leonid Andreev, the famous prose writer and playwright of the Silver ... -
Wstęp
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Topoliada Paola Rumiza jako inspiracja do wielopoziomowego poznawania kultury włoskiej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)W artykule analizowane są inspiracje wypływające z lektury reportażu literackiego Legenda żeglujących gór Paola Rumiza. Włoski pisarz i dziennikarz opisuje w nim swoje wielomiesięczne podróże po Półwyspie Apenińskim szlakiem ... -
Zjawisko Holocaustu jako inspiracja dla pisarzy – na przykładzie powieści Romy Ligockiej Dziewczynka w czerwonym płaszczyku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)W artykule podjęto kwestię inspiracji dziełem kultury. Zostały w nim przedstawione losy Żydówki, Romy Ligockiej, która po obejrzeniu filmu Stevena Spielberga Lista Schindlera, poświęconego dramatowi II wojny światowej, ...