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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 ...
A review of Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex University Press, 2010)
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
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 ...
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 ...
Vision and Violence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
Virginia Woolf describes her artistic goal in The Waves as an attempt to create “an abstract
mystical eyeless book.” Yet, in creating her eyeless book, one that eschews a single narrative
perspective, Woolf amasses ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Threats or Victims: The Ambiguous Nature of Supernatural Creatures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s and George R. R. Martin’s Fantasy
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)
Many postcolonial readings of fantasy fiction focus on exploring complicated relationships
between different fantastic races that inhabit a certain secondary world. However, such
studies often overlook interactions of ...
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 ...