Browsing Analyses/Rereadings/Theories Journal (2020), vol. 6 nr 1 by Issue Date
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Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article reflects upon Sam Shepard’s playwrighting in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to his last play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), written specifically for the ... -
The (Self)portrait of a Writer: A Hermeneutic Reading of Virginia Woolf’s (Auto)biographical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Woolf’s maturing as a writer was deeply influenced by her traumatic experiences in childhood, the (in)capacitating states of mental instability, as well as her proto-feminist convictions. Long before Barthes, she toppled ... -
Authoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performances
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as trauma and healing. In order to do so, I will explore the writing of war memoirs and/or the re-enactment of war experiences ... -
Gazing at Eurydice: Authorship and Otherness in Bracha L. Ettinger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)A historical photograph of women and children from the Mizocz ghetto taken in 1942 just before their execution constitutes one of the most recurring motifs in Bracha L. Ettinger’s visual art. By means of her artworks, ... -
Supernatural Beings and Their Appropriation of Knowledge and Power in The Seafarer by Conor McPherson and Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article is a comparative analysis of Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr and The Seafarer by Conor McPherson from a hauntological perspective. It aims at discussing the influence of supernatural beings on mortal ... -
Perspectives on Authorship and Authority
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This article outlines selected shifts in thinking about authorship and authority that have occurred in literary and cultural studies in the aftermath of Roland Barthes’s proclamation of the death of the author, followed ...