Analyses/Rereadings/Theories Journal: Recent submissions

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    • Of Monsters, Myths and Marketing: The Case of the Loch Ness Monster 

      Moir, James (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      This paper examines the status of the Loch Ness Monster within a diverse body of literature relating to Scotland. Within cryptozoology this creature is considered as a source of investigation, something to be taken ...

    • The Ambiguous Identity of a Dog as a Mongrelized Storyteller in John Berger's King (1999) 

      Leleń, Halszka (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      The dog named King, the central character and narrator of John Berger’s “King” published in 1999, is the offshoot of many apparently incongruent genre conventions as well as the offspring of the ambivalent prejudice and ...

    • The American Dream and American Greed in Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall: Sentimental and Satirical Christian Discourse in the Popular Domestic Tale 

      Van Nyhuis, Alison (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      Although Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time originally was a widely popular book in the nineteenth century, Fern and Ruth Hall were criticized after readers learned about the similarities among ...

    • Laying Bare: Agamben, Chandler, and The Responsibility to Protect 

      Quigley, Gabriel (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      This paper demonstrates the hidden similarities between Raymond Chandler’s prototypical noir The Big Sleep, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) document. By taking up the work of philosopher Giorgio ...

    • Vision and Violence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves 

      Otto, Peggy D. (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      Virginia Woolf describes her artistic goal in The Waves as an attempt to create “an abstract mystical eyeless book.” Yet, in creating her eyeless book, one that eschews a single narrative perspective, Woolf amasses ...

    • Towards a Non-hierarchical Space of Thought: Reading Roland Barthes’ The Neutral 

      Myk, Małgorzata (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      The article is devoted to The Neutral: the 1977-1978 lecture course developed and taught by Roland Barthes at the Collège de France. I argue that The Neutral is firmly rooted in the tradition that Brian Massumi defined ...

    • Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy 

      McAlister, Jodi (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      The Fifty Shades series has brought erotic fiction to a broader and more mainstream audience than ever before. In its wake, a number of erotic romance series have achieved unprecedented popularity, such as Sylvia Day’s ...

    • Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing 

      Guenther, Shawna (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing is a convoluted representation of the mentallyunstable mind existing as a series of six characters that are at once separate and conjoined: the horrors and traumatic events of the ...

    • The Power of Poetic Praxis in the Literature of Pat Mora and Ana Castillo 

      Graf, Amara (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
      Chicana literary work is predominantly characterized by poetry. Lyrical poetic phrases are interwoven into Chicanas’ short stories, novels, theoretical, and critical essays. Why poetry? What is distinct about poetry as ...

    • A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! 

      Viator, Timothy J. (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      This essay presents a sociosemiotic analysis of My Children! My Africa! (1989) by Athol Fugard. By considering the characters’ views about self, community, education, and time, it points to the Fugard’s anxious attempt ...

    • Communality and the Individual in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 

      Tazbir, Jędrzej (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      The subject of the article is the analysis of the notion of communality in the relation between the two protagonists of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Traversing the post-apocalyptic landscape populated mostly by wretched ...

    • Shakespeare’s Exceptional Violence: Reading Titus Andronicus with Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben 

      Porcelli, Stefania (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      In this paper I explore the multifaceted relationship between violence, speech and power in the most graphic of Shakespeare’s plays, Titus Andronicus. I take my cue from Hannah Arendt’s reflections on violence as opposed ...

    • “Reread me backwards”: Deciphering the Past in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day 

      Johnson, Stephanie (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      Set during the midst of the London Blitz, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day revolves around a narrative of espionage, but unlike many novels from the spy genre, it refuses to disclose all of its secrets. Instead, the ...

    • Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction 

      Flynn, Susan (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the power of the new biotechnologies to create ...

    • The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 

      Filutowska, Katarzyna (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what ...

    • Secularism and Its Discontents: The Moor’s Last Sigh and Riot 

      Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
      The recurrent theme of dropping frontiers in a world which has become increasingly heterogeneous but intolerant is the leitmotif of Sashi Tharoor’s Riot and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh. The figure of the Moor ...