RSS 1.0Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica T. 57 (2020) nr 2
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“Who of us has never traced light over these walls”?: The archaeology of Stanisław Grochowiak’s poems
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Through a simple wall, a transparent element of everyday life, Stanisław Grochowiak’s poems enable one to uncover the existential concrete element, matter endowed with an amazing hypnagogic potential, a chronicle of ... -
The limits of magic: A study in breaking through barriers in fantasy fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The article analyses the theme of magic in the works of Andrzej Sapkowski (the Witcher series) and Jarosław Grzędowicz (Pan Lodowego Ogrodu) in terms of their potential, limitations, and the social consequences of using ... -
Brickwork and the wall as metaphors in Carlo Emilio Gadda’s fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The article analyses the topical motifs of the brickwork, the wall, and the house in the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda, one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century. These motifs were part of the writer’s broader ... -
Surrounded by a wall: The hermetic language of the Polish community of video gamers. Do Poles know the language of Polish gamers? The results of a survey-based study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)The video game industry is today one of the most rapidly developing branches of the entertainment industry. Such corporations as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are increasing their investment engagement in the manufacture ... -
The brickwork, walls and ceilings of Havana: Representations of space in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s Novel “Nothing to Do”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Latin America is a continent where for centuries various walls of ethnic, class, and political divisions were erected and demolished. Cubans, for whom the once paradise island became a cage, are a society which painfully ... -
To break “the Black Wall”. The motif of fear in plays by Henri-René Lenormand
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Henri-René Lenormand refreshed theatre, defining a new domain for it: the mysteries of the human soul. In all of his plays, he strived to explain the secret of internal life, as well as to solve the mystery that people are ... -
The wall of silence surrounding literature and remembrance: Varlam Shalamov’s “Artificial Limbs”, Etc. as a metaphor of the soviet empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-06-30)Literature of an autobiographical character acquires a special significance in the world of the bloody tragic events of the 20th century, i.e. the Holocaust, the Second World War, the realities of the Nazi and Soviet ...