• The (Self)portrait of a Writer: A Hermeneutic Reading of Virginia Woolf’s (Auto)biographical Writings 

  Hołda, Małgorzata (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 ...

• Supernatural Beings and Their Appropriation of Knowledge and Power in The Seafarer by Conor McPherson and Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr 

  Koneczniak, Grzegorz (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 ...

• Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work 

  Mirowska, Paulina (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 

  Bellot, Andrea Roxana (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 ...

• Gazing at Eurydice: Authorship and Otherness in Bracha L. Ettinger 

  Kisiel, Anna (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, ...

• Perspectives on Authorship and Authority 

  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta; Strehlau, Nelly; Więckowska, Katarzyna (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 ...

• The Vivified Sacrificial Rites as the Site of Conflation of Man and Animal in Adele Wiseman’s "The Sacrifice" 

  Tazbir, Jędrzej (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” 

  Roy, Satarupa Sinha (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 ...

• Drunken Language, Elliptical Politics: Caryl Churchill’s Oblique Protest Theatre 

  Jones, Matt (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" 

  Guenther, Shawna (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 Symbol of My Condition”: Dynamics of Alignment with Power in Sarah Schulman’s „Rat Bohemia” 

  Milewski, Jarosław (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 ...

• Intertextuality of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle 

  Zegarlińska, Magdalena (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 ...

• Whodunit to Irene Adler? From “the Woman” to “the Dominatrix” – on the Transformation of the Heroine in the Adapting Process and Her Representation in the Sherlock Miniseries 

  Popłońska, Magdalena (Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)

  One of the peculiar characteristics of the Sherlock Holmes fandom is that it has always had a tendency to blow innuendos in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories out of proportion. One might argue that such is the case of Irene ...

• Intertextual Adaptability of the Character of Sherlock Holmes from Literature to Film Production 

  Paśnik, Martyna (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 ...

• The Comic Image of the Courtly Love Ideals in Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory 

  Mrówka, Aleksandra (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 ...

• Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad 

  Lisowska, Katarzyna (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 ...

• Subverting the Gaze, Seducing with the Bible: A Study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé 

  Dąbrowska, Justyna (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 ...

• Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance 

  Beattie, Laura I. H. (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 ...

• Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century 

  Wendykowska, Emilia (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 ...

• The Transformation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter 

  Kordel, Patrycja (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 ...

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