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Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about ...
Blindness in the Beckettland of Malfunctioning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
Many of Beckett characters suffer from different kinds of disabilities and impairments, this being one of the ways of punishing them for “the eternal sin of having been born.” The article discusses blindness in Waiting for ...
The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...