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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 ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what ... -
The Power of Music in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)Tolkien valued music in his private life, and this is mirrored in his works about Middle-Earth, which owes its very existence to music. It is born out of the song of the Ainur. But the role of music does not end with this ... -
The Power of Poetic Praxis in the Literature of Pat Mora and Ana Castillo
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Chicana literary work is predominantly characterized by poetry. Lyrical poetic phrases are interwoven into Chicanas’ short stories, novels, theoretical, and critical essays. Why poetry? What is distinct about poetry as ... -
The Transformation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The mother/daughter bond is the central subject of Amy Tan’s two powerful books, The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Tensions that arise in the novels between a Chinese mother and her Chinese-American daughter ...