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Reality in the Margins, Pseudo-Reality in the Main Frame: The Posthuman in Steven Hall’s "The Raw Shark Texts"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)I contend that, at its core, Stephen Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts is an allegory of reading that illustrates how composite realities exist in the increasingly electronically-dominated world of posthumanism. Hall succinctly ... -
Religious and Emotional Communities in John Heywood and John Bale’s Interludes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)The paper examines emotional communities in early modern English drama, specifically interludes by John Heywood and John Bale. It explores the connections between emotion and religion, and seeks to uncover whether and how ... -
“Reread me backwards”: Deciphering the Past in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
(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 ... -
Resisting the Oppressive Paternal Metaphor of God in Michèle Roberts’s "Impossible Saints"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)The protagonist of Michèle Roberts’s Impossible Saints, Josephine, establishes a nonconformist convent for women who seek communion with God by following an unorthodox path of sensual spirituality. Impossible Saints ... -
Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)This paper examines the importance of the Orpheus myth during the English Renaissance. The Orpheus myth was one of the most common mythic intertexts of the period due to the fact that we could see the very story of Orpheus ... -
Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing
(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 ... -
Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Ignorance"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance ... -
Secularism and Its Discontents: The Moor’s Last Sigh and Riot
(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 ... -
The (Self)portrait of a Writer: A Hermeneutic Reading of Virginia Woolf’s (Auto)biographical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Woolf’s maturing as a writer was deeply influenced by her traumatic experiences in childhood, the (in)capacitating states of mental instability, as well as her proto-feminist convictions. Long before Barthes, she toppled ... -
Shakespearean Doubling: Issues of Action, Theme and Stage Presence
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Shakespeare’s Exceptional Violence: Reading Titus Andronicus with Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben
(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 ... -
Subverting the Gaze, Seducing with the Bible: A Study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The present article engages with the eponymous character of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and focuses on her subversion of the patriarchal rules, and on her attempts at seducing the prophet Jokanaan. Wilde’s Salomé becomes “an ... -
Supernatural Beings and Their Appropriation of Knowledge and Power in The Seafarer by Conor McPherson and Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article is a comparative analysis of Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr and The Seafarer by Conor McPherson from a hauntological perspective. It aims at discussing the influence of supernatural beings on mortal ... -
“The Symbol of My Condition”: Dynamics of Alignment with Power in Sarah Schulman’s „Rat Bohemia”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This article considers how Sarah Schulman in her novel Rat Bohemia and other works utilizes her intersectional position as a Jewish lesbian writer to bear witness to her experience of AIDS epidemic. It analyzes how Schulman ... -
Symptomizing Crises. Theatres of the Pandemic – Isolated But Open and Inside/Outside
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)My aim in this article is to look into manifestations of the corona crisis in theatre and performance as well as representations of other conflicts and problems, revealed or intensified by the pandemic. Drawing upon theories ... -
Tanja Cummings’ Line 41: A Reflection
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Teaching Psychomachia in The Castle of Perseverance
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The Ambiguous Identity of a Dog as a Mongrelized Storyteller in John Berger's King (1999)
(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
(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 ... -
The Comic Image of the Courtly Love Ideals in Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The Arthurian legends have fascinated and inspired people for ages. Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory is one of the best compilations of the stories about King Arthur and his peers. This romance deals with the ...