Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 15/2025 według tytułu
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All but a Pose? Unlikeable Heroines in Contemporary Fiction by Women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The present research grows out of an engagement with emerging trends in contemporary fiction by young women authors whose works frequently feature unrelatable and ultimately unlikable female narrators and/or protagonists. ... -
Always in Motion: Cities, Languages, Histories
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Between Translation and Translocation: How Art Sensorially Explodes Language in the Airport Space
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)After Bataille, one can argue that, like the “castle, church, temple, or palace” before, nowadays the airport terminal—as elementary architecture of modern urban communication—emerges as a “grand didactic monument.” Erected ... -
“The city of their fathers”: Urban Space, Memory, and Language in Stuart Dybek’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Stuart Dybek is a writer invariably associated with his neighborhood of Pilsen/Little Village on Chicago’s Lower West Side. Having grown up there as a descendant of immigrants from Poland, Dybek frequently “revisits” his ... -
Community Centres as Sites of Translation: Placemaking in Edinburgh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article presents a research project comprising a series of community initiatives in Edinburgh, a city which displays a disproportionately English-heavy linguistic profile, despite the cosmopolitan influences of both ... -
A Dramaturgy of Translation: The Brussels City Theatre as a Site of Negotiation between Language Policy and Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)State-funded city theatres play an important role in keeping a finger on the pulse of society. As porous institutions that act as meeting places between artists and citizens, they can present themselves as reflexive or ... -
Exploring Yaoundé as a Linguistically Divided Capital City of an English and French Bilingual African Nation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)This article examines the place of translation in the public space in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, an African nation with a threefold (German, English, and French) colonial heritage. The collected quantitative ... -
GG and the City: What Canada’s Major Translation Award Reveals about Its Metropolises
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)In this article I consider the predominance of metropolises in the Canadian publishing sector through the lens of award-winning translations. My research is based on a database of information on Canadian literary prizes ... -
A Hybrid Medium—Life (and Love) in John Ashbery’s Poetry
Bartczak, Kacper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-21)
The article focuses on the form of John Ashbery’s long poems, with a view to discussing it as a vitalist formula. Ashbery continues the American romantic vitalism by bringing it close to perspectives provided by contemporary ... -
In Search of Autonomy: Sexuality and the Promise of Liberation in Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Around the launch of the Penguin series Writers from the Other Europe in 1974, Philip Roth’s novels turned to the intersections between sexuality and Jewish-American life with an increased intensity. Roth’s choice to include ... -
Lumpenbroletariat among the Polystyrene Butterflies: On Robert Rybicki’s The Squatters’ Gift (Dar Meneli) as Poetic Travelogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Dar Meneli (The Squatters’ Gift)—a collection by Polish poet Robert Rybicki, a self-proclaimed happener—is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. His peripatetic poems pass ... -
Majorca as a Translational Space: Creating and Questioning Identity through Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-24)Majorca offers a rare combination of opportunities to develop a study of translation and space. Not only is it a site of rich historical cultural contact, but it is also a present location of contact and tension: between ... -
Precious Evanescence: The “Little Angels” by Chichico Alkmim through the Lens of Vladimir Jankélévitch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article establishes a dialogue between two distinct domains: the portraits of deceased infants—known in Brazil as anjinhos (“little angels”)—captured by the Brazilian photographer Chichico Alkmim (1886–1978) in the ... -
Redefining Death in Zero K by Don DeLillo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) focuses on the possibility of overcoming death through cryonics. The narrative is set primarily in the Convergence—a facility which utilises cryonics to provide its subjects with the possibility ... -
Refiguring and Normalizing Urban Space: Naguib Mahfouz’s Awlād ḥāratinā and Its English, Polish, and Spanish Translations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The Arabic term ḥāra denotes a specific topographical unit of the traditional Middle-Eastern, especially Egyptian, city. Variously translated into English—e.g., as lane, alley, but also quarter, district, neighbourhood—it ... -
A Review of Eve Dunbar’s Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
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“A small and great city”: On Translating Contemporary Glasgow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The aim of this article is to explore contemporary literary depictions of Glasgow as material for translation into Polish. Urban literature constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for translators, due to the ... -
“Stop Read Listen”: A Review of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City, edited by Tong King Lee (Routledge, 2021)
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Surviving Hamlet: Female Trauma through the Lens of Judith Lewis Herman’s Theory
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article employs Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery Theory as a framework to explore the theme of female trauma in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a play renowned for its intricate psychological depth. It analyzes the ... -
Translating Istanbul: Divergent Voices in Travel Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Intersemiotic research on urban discourse provides a dynamic perspective for interdisciplinary analysis, particularly within the context of Translation Studies. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s claim that the city is a “discourse” ...