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Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
This essay addresses the much discussed problem of archiving digital poetry. Digital media are labile, and several writers of digital poetry are incorporating the media’s ephemerality into their poetics. Rather than rehash ...
The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and ...
From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America. Taking into account the well-documented ...
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ...
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The article deals with the concept of femme fatale as presented in Gladys Huntington’s 1956 novel Madame Solario. The eponymous protagonist, Natalia Solario, displays several characteristics of this female archetype, ...
Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The article engages with the video installation Madame B by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. The work was premiered in the city of Łódź in Poland (between 6 Dec. 2013 and 9 Feb. 2014). The author makes use of the ...
Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the ...