Browsing Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 3/2013 by Issue Date
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Eroticism and Justice: Harold Pinter’s Screenplay of Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article centres upon Pinter’s creative adaptation of McEwan’s deeply allusive and disquieting text probing, amongst others, the intricacies and tensions of gender relations and sexual intimacy. It examines the ... -
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ... -
Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), ... -
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ... -
“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual ... -
Beyond the Garden: On the Erotic in the Vision of the Middle English Pearl
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The Middle English Pearl is known for its mixture of genres, moods and various discourses. The textual journey the readers of the poem embark on is a long and demanding one, leading from elegiac lamentations and the erotic ... -
Eroticism—Politics—Identity: The Case of Richard III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Richard III’s courtship of Lady Anne in William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a blend of courtly speech and sexual extravaganza. His sexual energy and power of seduction were invented by Shakespeare to enhance the ... -
“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings. They are especially visible ... -
Editorial
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In a World Characterized by Transience and Doomed to Extinction Some Old Women Still Need Love —Mrs Rooney from Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article analyzes the world of transience, deterioration and death characteristic of Boghill, the place of action of Samuel Beckett’s short radio play-All That Fall. In a broadcast drama, existence is equivalent to being ... -
Eros and Pilgrimage in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts ... -
Pornography Debate, Gaze and Spectatorship in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels has been described as a voice in the debate on pornography, expressing the anti-pornography position as opposed to the liberal feminist stance in this debate. Despite its ideological clarity ... -
Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the ... -
“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
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“On the radio the pictures are better”
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Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011)
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Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
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Eroticism in the “Cold Climate” of Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Closely based on the dramatist’s personal experience, Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City offers a commentary on the life of the Protestant working class in the capital of Northern Ireland in the 1980s from a ... -
Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did ... -
A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Filipczak, Dorota
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