Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 10/2020: Recent submissions

Now showing items 21-26 of 26

    • Representing Absence: Contemporary Ekphrasis in “Apesh-t” 

      Handley, Agata ORCID (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      Traditionally, ekphrasis has been defined as the description and analysis of works of art in poetry, and so it has been understood as the verbalization of visual images (Sager Eidt). The article examines the concept in the ...

    • Camp and Pop: David Bowie, Oskar Schlemmer, Madonna and Janelle Monáe 

      Dreckmann, Kathrin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      While contemporary pop culture is nowadays considered part of the cultural mainstream, its practices of codification and its use and circulation of signifiers are still shaped by its roots in counterculture. This leads to ...

    • Dalí, Disney and Destino: Alchemy in Animation 

      Allen, David (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      Salvador Dalí claimed that he made his whole life “a work of alchemy.” He saw in alchemy the principle of metamorphosis and “the transmutation of bodies.” Carl Jung recognized “imaginatio” as the key to alchemy. As Patrick ...

    • Made to Connive: Revisioning Cinderella in a Music Video. From Disney to Arthur Pirozkhov: A Case Study 

      Filipczak, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      The article focuses on the way in which music videos can subvert and refigure the message of literature and film. The author sets out to demonstrate how a music video entitled “Зацепила” by Arthur Pirozkhov (Aleksandr ...

    • IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film 

      Bal, Mieke (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      This essay is about the essay, a form (as Adorno called it) of thought alive that is partial in the two senses of the word: subjective and fragmented. Thinking as social, performative, and always un-finished; as dialogic. ...

    • L’homme agissant and Self-understanding: Pamela Sue Anderson on Capability and Vulnerability 

      Hołda, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
      This article addresses Pamela Sue Anderson’s philosophy of capability and vulnerability as an important contribution to the advancement of today’s feminist ethics. Following Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of l’homme capable, ...