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Radiant Futures: Utopian Art as a Phenomenology of Home-Seeking
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This essay examines the imaginative potential of utopian art. Utopian art is more than a representation of a possible future, it calls upon our imaginations to pull us into the act of home-coming itself. Following Heidegger, ... -
Radical Ecopoetics: The Apocalyptic Vision of Jorie Graham’s Sea Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Jorie Graham’s Sea Change (2008) addresses the environmental crisis engendered by climate change, sending us a dire warning of the end of humanity by featuring an apocalyptic world. Sea Change gives a poetic voice to the ... -
Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a ... -
Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)While it has been omitted by numerous critics in their otherwise comprehensive readings of Yeats’s oeuvre, “Beautiful Lofty Things” has been placed among the mythical poems, partly in accordance with Yeats’s own intention; ... -
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ... -
Recessive Action in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn accompanies Eilis Lacey, a native of Enniscorthy, Ireland of the 1950s on a reluctant voyage across the Atlantic. Her passage reconstructs a common experience of immigration and exile to ... -
The Regional Impersonal as a Mode of Dwelling: Structures of Embodiment in David Jones’s The Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The discussion of dwelling in this article focuses on T. S. Eliot’s controversial axiom of poetic impersonality as articulated in The Sacred Wood (1920) and practiced in The Waste Land (1922), and on how this axiom is ... -
Representing Absence: Contemporary Ekphrasis in “Apesh-t”
Handley, Agata
(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 ... -
Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This article is an edited version of the response paper offered at the conclusion of the symposium, Modern Sensibilities. It ties together themes from the symposium papers, as well as ideas prompted by Mieke Bal’s exhibition, ... -
Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis
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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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A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Fordham UP, 2013)
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A Review of Natalie Crohn Schmitt, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570–1630 (Routledge, 2019)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22) -
Review of The Body, ed. by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011) -
Reviews/Interviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) -
“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s "The Glorious Heresies" (2015) and "The Blood Miracles" (2017)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut The Glorious Heresies (2015) and its continuation The Blood Miracles ... -
Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss
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The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s "The Sisters Brothers"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores Eli Sisters as a reinvigorated rogue who finds his artistic calling in Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, published in 2011. With the help of insights from narratology and genre theory, the article ... -
Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my ...