Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 11/2021: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 1-20 z 29
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A Review of Natalie Crohn Schmitt, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570–1630 (Routledge, 2019)
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“Whenever there’s too much technology”: A Review of Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner, 2020)
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Thinking about Thinking Nothing: A Review of Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism (MIT P, 2019)
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Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper discusses translation practices from a historicist viewpoint, contextualizing them in their emerging “episode.” The latter is a concept drawn from sociology of literature and accounts for the rise of certain ... -
A Review of Agnieszka Łowczanin, A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic: Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe (Peter Lang, 2018)
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Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Literary renditions of cities have always gravitated towards the spatial imagination and its ethical counterpart outside the textual space. This paper explores the multicultural geography of the North Indian city Allahabad ... -
One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations with a focus on various modes of transtranslation/transcreation/transaption of Matsuo Bashō’s famous frog haiku. The emphasis is placed on the complexities (of ... -
Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” is a particularly noteworthy example of the sublime, a psychological state in which one is overwhelmed by the magnitude of that which is perceived ... -
Griselda’s Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and the Tale of Magic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Some influence of Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale, also known as the story of the patient Griselda, on Shakespeare, and particularly on The Winter’s Tale, has long been recognized. It seems, however, that the matter deserves ... -
Tragic Victims of Mania a Potu (“Madness from Drink”): A Study of Literary Nineteenth-Century Female Drunkards
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Temperance literature, though widely popular in America and Britain between 1830–80, lost its allure in the decades that followed. In spite of its didactic and moralistic nature, the public eagerly consumed temperance ... -
The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgiveness and justice in The Tragedy of King Lear. In my reading I employ Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological reflection on the ... -
Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Addressing trauma as a phenomenon which happens on the level of the human psyche and body, this article explores the impact of the interlocking nature of human lingual and bodily being in discovering a fuller possibility ... -
“My Monster Self”: Violence and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Margaret Atwood’s novels are usually celebrated for their blunt feminism. However, in Moral Disorder—a series of interconnected stories that forms a novel—feminist concerns are replaced with worries about territory and ... -
“Never Trust a Survivor”: Historical Trauma, Postmemory and the Armenian Genocide in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article focuses on Kurt Vonnegut’s lesser-known and underappreciated 1987 novel Bluebeard, which is analyzed and interpreted in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s seminal theory of postmemory. Even though it was published ... -
Performing More-Than-Human Corporeal Connections in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines work by contemporary American artist Kiki Smith, who proposes a future in which human and nonhuman bodily borders merge. The artist’s contribution to the more-than-human artistic entanglements is ... -
Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This article analyzes selected short stories in Cecelia Ahern’s thirty-narrative collection Roar (2018) to see how (and with what losses or gains) the perspectives of posthuman and postfeminist critique can be incorporated ... -
Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (1934) remains well-read, and its hero Hercule Poirot continues to enjoy popular currency. Yet the text has not aged well due to some of its now clichéd plot developments and ... -
From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Since their first screen appearances in the 1930s, zombies have enjoyed immense cinematic popularity. Defined by Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as mindless, violent, decaying and infectious, they successfully ... -
Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem. That is, a better ... -
Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since ...