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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 ...
“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.
”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 ...
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 ...
The Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The article seeks to analyze the portrayal of the Jews in two plays from the Chester mystery cycle: “Trial and Flagellation” and “The Passion.” The analysis acknowledges that the cycle is a mixture of, and a dialogue ...
Art (and) Criticism: Hart Crane and David Siqueiros
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The article focuses on an analysis of Hart Crane’s essay “Note on the Paintings of David Siqueiros.” One of Crane’s few art-historical texts, the critical piece in question is first of all a tribute to the American poet’s ...
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 ...
”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 ...
Boundaries and Otherness in Science Fiction: We Cannot Escape the Human Condition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The article explores the construction of boundaries, alterity and otherness in modern science-fiction (SF) films. Boundaries, understood as real state borders, territoriality and sovereignty, as well as the construction ...
Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and the Language of Diversity in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez’s 1527 expedition to the New World in which Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors. His account has received ...