Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 8/2018 według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 10-26 z 26
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”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support ... -
Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)At Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a ... -
Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the ... -
Michael Longley and Birds
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such ... -
“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum. -
The New Sentence: June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In the final part of the paper, I contrast the New Sentence parataxis with a more practical, more spontaneous (albeit more conventional) approach embodied by June Jordan. The paratactic structures of her writing remain ... -
”No Country for Old Men”? The Question of George Moore’s Place in the Early Twentieth-Century Literature of Ireland
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The paper scrutinizes the literary output of George Moore with reference to the expectations of the new generation of Irish writers emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although George Moore is considered ... -
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery ... -
Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Virginia Foster Durr was born in 1903 in Birmingham, Alabama in a former planter class family, and in spite of the gradual decline in the family fortune, she was brought up as a traditional southern belle, utterly subjected ... -
”A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)This essay explores the modernist aesthetic involved in creating a fictive, nostalgic, childhood experience. Evoking the experience of childhood through fiction is as close to actually reliving childhood as we can get. The ... -
Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I ... -
Recessive Action in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn accompanies Eilis Lacey, a native of Enniscorthy, Ireland of the 1950s on a reluctant voyage across the Atlantic. Her passage reconstructs a common experience of immigration and exile to ... -
”Soldier Dolls, Little Adulteresses, Poor Scapegoats, Betraying Sisters and Perfect Meat”: The Gender of the Early Phase of the Troubles and the Politics of Punishments against Women in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This paper examines the literary representation of the beginnings of the Northern Irish Troubles with regard to a gender variable (women’s roles and functions ascribed to them, mostly punitively, by men), in the selected ... -
Songs of America: A Review of John Berryman’s Public Vision by Philip Coleman (Dublin: UCD P, 2014)
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Timothy Findley, His Biographers, and The Piano Man’s Daughter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In this paper, Sherrill Grace, Findley’s biographer, will examine her biographical practices in the context of Findley’s own memoir, Inside Memory, and his interest in creating fictional auto/biographers and auto/biography ... -
Transvestite M(other) in the Canadian North: Isobel Gunn by Audrey Thomas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article focuses on the eponymous protagonist of Isobel Gunn, a Canadian feminist historical novel by Audrey Thomas, published in 1999. Based on a real story, the novel fictionalizes the life of an Orcadian woman who ... -
The Whittrick Play of No Nothing: Alan Spence, Edwin Morgan, and Indra’s Net
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article will attempt a reading of Alan Spence’s play No Nothing (2015). Special attention will be given to the issue of literal and metaphorical space(s), a peculiar, liminal setting of the play, and the ways it ...