Czasopisma naukowe | Scientific Journals: Ostatnio dodane
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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction ... -
A Topic-Based Diachronic Account of the Polysemy of the English Verb ‘Run’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study discusses the polysemy and diachronic semantic frequency shifts of the English verb run using a topic model. The increase in corpus-based research in cognitive linguistics has yielded many empirical findings on ... -
What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper investigates the motivation behind denominal conversion of animal nouns to verbs as well as their resultant senses. Upon critical consideration of previous accounts of animal verb senses and their possible ... -
Elaboration sites and prepositional meaning construction in English and Polish
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Although prepositions are relational linguistic units of modest sizes, they can contribute a variety of different meanings to the constructions they are found in. The paper looks into the notion of e-site, which allows for ... -
Przestrzeń litanii w poezji współczesnej
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)In recent research special attention has been paid to theocentric space-time as a cosmological principle that explains the enumerative character of the traditional litany. It is, indeed, no accident that the genre gained ... -
Żywotność Bachtinowskiej „poetyki czasoprzestrzeni” na przykładzie "Prawieku i innych czasów" oraz "Empuzjonu" Olgi Tokarczuk
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)The article is an attempt to analyze the influence of Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotope concept on the different ways of existence of time and space in two novels by Olga Tokarczuk: one of the earlier ones — Primeval and Other ... -
Dom rodzinny jako miejsce mitobiograficzne Zbigniewa Żakiewicza
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)On the basis of literary sketches from the Frozen in Time volume and Zbigniew Żakiewicz’s novels Lupine Meadows, The Abacz Clan and Wilio, in the Depths of the Sea, a symbolic connection between the writer’s family home ... -
Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper analyzes selections from Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, to study the complex act of nation-building taking place in India during the first half of the twentieth century. Through these periodicals, it ... -
Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022)
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“All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022)
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Harry Styles as a Cecaelia: Sexuality, Representation and Media-lore in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The music video for Harry Styles’s 2022 track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (directed by Aube Perrie) provides a surprising representation of the pop star (arguably at the peak of his career) appearing as a cecaelia (a ... -
Abjection of the Other in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend: The Subject’s Deterrence Strategy for Becoming the Abject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) is about the volatile relationship between Robert Neville—the sole survivor of the human race—and vampires as the members of a brave new world order. While many critics tend to read ... -
Envisioning the Ecological Future: Three Perspectives off the Beaten Track
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)With few truly hopeful visions currently emerging from mainstream academia or from established science concerning humanity’s collective environmental outlook, it might be necessary to go off the beaten track in order to ... -
Erasing “Knowable Communities”: From Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Brassed Off
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper discusses cinematic representations of working class communities in British cinema from the pre-war documentary movement to (post-)Thatcher feature films chronicling the decline of traditional industries. A ... -
Dialogic, but Monologic: Toxic Masculinity Meets #MeToo in Teddy Wayne’s Campus Novel Loner
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Teddy Wayne’s 2016 Loner tells the story of a Harvard freshman’s sexual obsession with a fellow student, leading to stalking and attempted rape. On a deeper level, the campus novel can be interpreted as a critique of wider ... -
“The particulars of loss”: Grief Memoirs and Their Pragmatic Applications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Death is commonly pushed to the periphery in contemporary society, leaving the grief-struck to endure the turbulent nature of their loss alone. Unsurprisingly, our mortality-denying times have witnessed the proliferation ... -
Grievable Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: US-American Television, Melodrama and the Work of Mourning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The present article applies Judith Butler’s notion of “grievable life” to reflect on the manner in which selected US-American television series engaged in the work of mourning and memorializing the loss of life in the first ... -
Artist Collaboration and Unity in Times of Crisis: The Spirals Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The pandemic crisis of COVID-19 that we have recently endured, and that to some extent we are still experiencing, abruptly changed the way in which we conceive of the interaction between inner and outer space. Specifically, ... -
“English with a Polish Accent and a Slight Touch of Irish”: Multilingualism in Polish Migrant Theatre
Prykowska-Michalak, Karolina
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Issues of migration writing (see Kosmalska) and migrant theatre have recently gained prominence, leading to an increase in research focused on analyzing the theatrical works of artists with a migrant background. This ... -
Waves of Pixels and Wordgenerated Algorithms: Drone Poetry as a Collaborative Practice between Machine and Human in Waveform by Richard A. Carter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The following article explores the creative collaborative practices in digital poetry between more-than-human agents. Richard A. Carter’s artistic project Waveform (2017–) makes one reconsider the ways in which multimodal ...