Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This article analyzes selected short stories in Cecelia Ahern’s thirty-narrative collection Roar (2018) to see how (and with what losses or gains) the perspectives of posthuman and postfeminist critique can be incorporated ... -
Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1934) remains well-read, and its hero Hercule Poirot continues to enjoy popular currency. Yet the text has not aged well due to some of its now clichéd plot developments and ... -
From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Since their first screen appearances in the 1930s, zombies have enjoyed immense cinematic popularity. Defined by Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as mindless, violent, decaying and infectious, they successfully ... -
Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem. That is, a better ... -
Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since ... -
Aligning with Sociopaths: Character Engagement Strategies in Highsmith’s and Minghella’s Talented Mr. Ripleys
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Patricia Highsmith’s stated reason for writing The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) was to see if she could elicit empathetic engagement for her immoral protagonist Tom Ripley. Amongst other factors, she achieves her goal by ... -
Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Terror narratives have been characterized by a dialogism where the “normative” I—i.e. the “non-threatening mainstream”—defines and delineates subjects whose identity is centred on their (actual or presumed) location in the ... -
Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses the evolving image of female characters in the Mad Max saga directed by George Miller, focusing on Furiosa’s rebellion in the last film—Mad Max: Fury Road. Interestingly, studying Miller’s post-apocalyptic ... -
“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Waged in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed over 20,000 lives according to human rights groups. The Duterte administration’s own count is significantly lower: around 6,000. The huge ... -
Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper aims to present the main contours of Burns’s literary output which, interestingly enough, grows into a personal understanding of the collective mindset of (post)-Troubles Northern Ireland. It is legitimate, I ... -
Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. ... -
“Brought up to Live Double Lives”: Intelligence and Espionage as Literary and Philosophical Figures in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place and For All We Know
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines the figure of the spy—alongside themes related to espionage—as employed in two books by the Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson (1948–2019): the volume of poems For All We Know (2008) and the novel ... -
Editorial: Literature and Security
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Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam
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Wartime Propaganda and Gender in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Scorched Earth: A Dissident Reading
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) has been the subject of many aesthetic productions in contemporary Persian literature. The Iranian mass media during the war with Iraq described the armed conflict as holy and masculine, and ... -
Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)If late modern literary production is structured by any principles rendering order to the otherwise nebular character of the process, this is the idea of intertextuality that paves the way for the dissolution of well ... -
“Sardoodledom” on the English Stage: T. W. Robertson and the Assimilation of Well-Made Play into the English Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article discusses a vital figure in the development of modern English theatre, Thomas William Robertson, in the context of his borrowings, inspirations, translations and adaptations of the French dramatic formula pièce ... -
The Poetic Bliss of the Re-described Reality: Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Figurative Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article addresses the issue of the intimate but troublesome liaison between philosophy and literature—referred to in scholarship as “the ancient quarrel between poets and philosophers.” Its aim is double-fold. First, ... -
“By [some] other means”: Talking (about) Racism and Race through Visual Arts in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric is a perplexing work of literature both because of its original presentation of the issue of racism in the US today and the original formal ways through which its message is ... -
Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia
Fruzińska, Justyna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose ...