RSS 1.0Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 12/2022
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“Productivity of Constraint”: Wit Pietrzak in Conversation with Philip Terry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24) -
A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Nec Tecum Nec Sine Te: The Inseparability of Word and Image in Virginia Woolf
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article explores the interaction of verbal and visual art in Virginia Woolf’s fiction, exemplified by her novel, To the Lighthouse. The narrative of the novel not only features scenes of the painting of the Ramsays’ ... -
The Butterfly Effect: Creating and Recreating the Story of Madame Butterfly, on Paper and on Stage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The consequences of the partially coerced opening of Japan to the Western world in the second half of the 19th century went far beyond economic and political goals and considerations. The previously secluded land almost ... -
Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay analyzes Michèle Roberts’s 2012 story “On the Beach at Trouville” as an ekphrasis of Claude Monet’s early Impressionist painting, The Beach at Trouville. It first approaches the narrative though W. J. T. Mitchell’s ... -
Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The aim of the article is to compare three (re)creative activities within one interdisciplinary project: a public space (14 Henrietta St. Museum in Dublin), poetry (Paula Meehan’s cycle of sonnets in Museum of 2019) and ... -
Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, and often wandering and wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many of Jarman’s stories—stories that are marked not ... -
Echoes of Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist Kurtz, of whom we do not, in fact, see much, is shown as connected with a native “sorcerer,” a “witch-man,” who had “antelope horns” on his head. Antelopes, or goats, are typical ... -
Affective Realities and Conceptual Contradictions of Patricia Piccinini’s Art: Ecofeminist and Disability Studies Perspectives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s art called That’s Us (Toruń, CSW) largely represents the Australian artist’s visions and fascinations known from earlier exhibitions. Questioning and erasing the borders between ... -
Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In this essay I will discuss Donna J. Haraway’s notion of sympoiesis and examine different modes of cohabitation or hybridization with nonhuman others. Such concepts as sympoiesis, or holobiont, question the notion of the ... -
Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic ... -
Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article examines M. R. Carey’s 2014 zombie apocalypse novel The Girl with All the Gifts through the ecofeminist concept of trans-corporeality as defined by Stacy Alaimo in Bodily Natures. Carey’s heroine Melanie ... -
Ecotopia. Based on Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Adapted by Elizabeth Watson
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“Did You See Last Night’s Episode of Ecotopia?”: How a TV Series Could Help Move Climate Action Forward. A Conversation with Elizabeth Watson
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Past Conditional Subjectivities: Enacting Relationships with the Non-Human in the Work of Ana Mendieta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Inspired by what literary scholar Lisa Lowe calls “the past conditional temporality”—or the “what could have been”—this paper examines how the work of 20th-century Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta challenges ... -
“Enlightenment Is a Shared Enterprise”: Tree Ecosystems and the Legacy of Modernity in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory (2018) the theme of the novel is the forest ecosystem, with a special emphasis placed on trees, upon whose developmental model the processes of (organic and industrial) ... -
“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)It seems that in order to overcome the current ecological crisis we need a new (global?) narrative. If the narrative of “progress” that has functioned as one of the Western cultural myths is linked to the notions of modernity ... -
Apocalypse When? Storytelling and Spiralic Time in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) frequently invokes the concept of apocalypse to explore the experience of living through the era of unprecedented climate change and environmental disaster that has been named the ... -
Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through ... -
Environmental Neocolonialism and the Quest for Social Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The article addresses the problems of environmental degradation, as illustrated and explored in Imbolo Mbue’s recent novel How Beautiful We Were (2021), which juxtaposes the fictional oil company Pexton’s corporate greed ...