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Feminist Auto/biography as a Means of Empowering Women: A Case Study of Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar and Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Feminism, as a political, social and cultural movement, pays much attention to the importance of text. Text is the carrier of important thoughts, truths, ideas. It becomes a means of empowering women, a support in their ... -
Dichotomous Images in McEwan’s Saturday: In Pursuit of Objective Balance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Saturday sets out to depict the contemporary world with its ambiguities and paradox. In the novel, like in a mirror painting, every event, character and conflict is highlighted from diverse, often contradictory, angles by ... -
"Alternative Selves" and Authority in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The article engages with "alternative selves," a concept found in The Stone Carvers by a Canadian writer, Jane Urquhart. Her fiction is first seen in the context of selected texts by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Laurence ... -
Editorial
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Who Are You, Mrs Walter Shandy, Aberratio Naturae?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine the critically unacknowledged aspect of the canonical Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: the authorial delineation and narrative management of the character of Mrs Shandy, who is a ... -
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) -
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
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Editorial
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Edward Said and the Margins
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ... -
Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ... -
The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A. Bové’s consideration ... -
At the Margins of the World: The Nature of Limits in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) is an anti-war film which can be read as an Orphic narrative meditating on the relationship between humans and “nature.” Many scholarly readings of the film have been attracted ... -
“The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ... -
The Margins of the Rational Man: Fluid Identities in Eighteenth-Century Biography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)This study will explore the Enlightenment conception of the individual of reason, its attempted formulations in actor biographies, and its ultimate denial by the reality of human identity as multiple, fluid, and dialogical. ... -
Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article ... -
Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed ... -
Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille. From the very ... -
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 1)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The sons of famous men sometimes fail to succeed in life, particularly if they suffer parental neglect in their childhood and youth. Ira Daniel Aldridge is a case in point-a promising lad who in his formative years lacked ... -
The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a ... -
Bianca Looks from above the Book: Readings on the Margin of Bruno Schulz’s Ex-Libris for Stanisław Weingarten
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The essay traces correspondences between the elements of the 1919 Pierrot ex-libris and the books from Weingarten’s collection which, with time, included and gave privileged position to the works of Bruno Schulz. Among the ...