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Michèle Roberts’s "Flesh and Blood" as an Example of "Écriture Feminine"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)The essay offers an analysis of Flesh and Blood, a novel by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1994. It discusses the book from the vantage point of French feminist criticism, especially écriture feminine, as well as ... -
O VENICE! By Borys Fynkelshteyn
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12) -
Of Monsters, Myths and Marketing: The Case of the Loch Ness Monster
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)This paper examines the status of the Loch Ness Monster within a diverse body of literature relating to Scotland. Within cryptozoology this creature is considered as a source of investigation, something to be taken ... -
Perspectives on Authorship and Authority
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article outlines selected shifts in thinking about authorship and authority that have occurred in literary and cultural studies in the aftermath of Roland Barthes’s proclamation of the death of the author, followed ... -
Phonaesthetic Phonological Iconicity in Literary Analysis Illustrated by Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The article offers a phonosemantic analysis of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” The phonosemantic investigation has been based on the corpus of nineteen relevant sound-related descriptions of the sea. Although most ... -
Preface
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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"
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(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 ...