• Songs of America: A Review of John Berryman’s Public Vision by Philip Coleman (Dublin: UCD P, 2014) 

  Warso, Anna; Pietrzak, Wit; Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)

• The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality 

  Yazdizadeh, Abdolali (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 

  Grace, Sherrill (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 

  Filipczak, Dorota (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 ...

• ”A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia 

  Salmose, Niklas (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 

  Maszewska, Jadwiga (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 Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography 

  Allen, David; Handley, Agata (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 

  Kaczmarski, Paweł (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 ...

• Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and the Language of Diversity in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account 

  Maszewski, Zbigniew (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 ...

• Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs 

  Jiménez-Placer, Susana María (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 ...

• The First Constitutional Government of the Minnesota Anishinaabeg 

  Krausová, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)

  In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth century. Specifically, I focus on the first constitutional government of the White Earth Nation, located in northwestern ...

• Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress 

  Szmańko, Klara (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 ...

• Boundaries and Otherness in Science Fiction: We Cannot Escape the Human Condition 

  Hermann, Isabella (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 ...

• The Whittrick Play of No Nothing: Alan Spence, Edwin Morgan, and Indra’s Net 

  Kocot, Monika (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 ...

• Art (and) Criticism: Hart Crane and David Siqueiros 

  Piechucka, Alicja (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 Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle 

  Matyjaszczyk, Joanna (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 ...

• ”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine 

  Hamera, Paweł (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 ...

• Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring 

  Marzec, Karolina (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 

  Uchman, Jadwiga (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 ...

• Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company 

  Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)

  Making reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of ...

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