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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Vivified Sacrificial Rites as the Site of Conflation of Man and Animal in Adele Wiseman’s "The Sacrifice"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The article juxtaposes two explanations of the ancient phenomenon of sacrifice, one of which, formulated by René Girard, emphasizes the aspects of scapegoating and transference of people’s violent inclinations, while the ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)
The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example,
Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in
a broader context of intertextual practices ...