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A review of Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex University Press, 2010)
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A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Fugard’s My Children! My Africa!
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)This essay presents a sociosemiotic analysis of My Children! My Africa! (1989) by Athol Fugard. By considering the characters’ views about self, community, education, and time, it points to the Fugard’s anxious attempt ... -
Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the power of the new biotechnologies to create ... -
Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The following article is to introduce the reader into a cultural and intellectual movement whose aim is to identify the need for improvement in human life in the sphere of physicality as well as mentality with the aid ... -
Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article reflects upon Sam Shepard’s playwrighting in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to his last play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), written specifically for the ... -
Authoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performances
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as trauma and healing. In order to do so, I will explore the writing of war memoirs and/or the re-enactment of war experiences ... -
Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)The Fifty Shades series has brought erotic fiction to a broader and more mainstream audience than ever before. In its wake, a number of erotic romance series have achieved unprecedented popularity, such as Sylvia Day’s ... -
Café Zelig: A Seniors’ Hangout and a Whole Lot of History
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Communality and the Individual in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)The subject of the article is the analysis of the notion of communality in the relation between the two protagonists of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Traversing the post-apocalyptic landscape populated mostly by wretched ... -
“Don’t Mention the War”: Live Aid Concert and UEFA EURO 2020 Finals as Examples of the Separation of Global Mega-events from Political Conflict
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)This research compares two important British live entertainment mega-events held at Wembley Stadium in London, and examines their attempts to distance themselves from the mentioning of political conflict or war. The paper ... -
Drunken Language, Elliptical Politics: Caryl Churchill’s Oblique Protest Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Can “political theatre” exist in today’s political climate? In the last few decades, our understanding of politics and theatre has undermined the basis on which prior generations of artists conceived of both politics and ... -
“The Ecstasy of the Between-Us”: Sharing the World in Michèle Roberts’s Relational Poetics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)In Through Vegetal Being, Luce Irigaray writes about the importance of “cultivating and sharing life between all” as it will result in “the blossoming of all beings.” This perspective seems to reside at the centre of Michèle ... -
Ethnography, Translation of Cultures and History in V. S. Naipaul’s India Trilogy, „The Loss of El Dorado” and „A Way in the World”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The genre of travel writing is not only informed by an interdisciplinary aesthetic but also involves the description of peoples and the translation/re-presentation/re-interpretation of cultures. This article provides ... -
Gazing at Eurydice: Authorship and Otherness in Bracha L. Ettinger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)A historical photograph of women and children from the Mizocz ghetto taken in 1942 just before their execution constitutes one of the most recurring motifs in Bracha L. Ettinger’s visual art. By means of her artworks, ... -
Intertextual Adaptability of the Character of Sherlock Holmes from Literature to Film Production
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)This study explores the theme of intertextuality and adaptation between literature and film on the basis of Sherlock Holmes, the 19th/20th-century character conceived by Arthur Conan Doyle. It shows how the character has ... -
Intertextuality of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The Chronicles of Narnia has an established position in the canon of children’s literature. However, what on the surface is a fairy tale involving adventures and magic; with children, kings, talking beasts, and wood ... -
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“It’s a Pagan Communion, and We Are the Priests”: Plenitude in Michèle Roberts’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-07-14)Roberts’s short stories have not received extensive scholarly attention, yet they make up a substantial part of her oeuvre. Her output of short stories is configured in a particular and coherent way, one that overlaps with ... -
Laying Bare: Agamben, Chandler, and The Responsibility to Protect
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)This paper demonstrates the hidden similarities between Raymond Chandler’s prototypical noir The Big Sleep, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) document. By taking up the work of philosopher Giorgio ... -
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 ...