Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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“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 ... -
Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article explores the potential “healing” role performance art can have when representing disabling trauma, and engaging, as part of the creative process, participants who have experienced in their lives significant ... -
Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s "Black Money"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In his early career, Kenneth Millar, better known as Ross Macdonald, emulated the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. By the 1960s he had established himself as a distinct voice in the hardboiled genre. In his ... -
Joe Brainard’s "I Remember", Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Paul Ricoeur declares that “being-entangled in stories” is an inherent property of the human condition. He introduces the notion of narrative identity—a form of identity constructed on the basis of a self-constructed ... -
Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this article I consider a certain characteristic of our times as a “secular age,” namely, a series of complications in our understanding of transgression. Transgression implies the presence of some rules and laws which ... -
“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article engages with the protagonist of The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1984 as The Wild Girl. Filipczak discusses scholarly publications that analyze the role of Mary Magdalene, ... -
Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)What happens once the rogue rides off into the sunset? This cross-genre essay considers the figure of the rogue’s decline and gradual dismemberment in the face of the pressures of the world. Beginning with the “rogue” ... -
The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Though largely unknown today, “Ned Buntline” (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) was one of the most influential authors of 19th-century America. He published over 170 novels, edited multiple popular and political publications, ... -
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 ... -
Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines the Megg, Mogg and Owl stories of Simon Hanselmann, an Australian artist whose serialized comics both depict acts of contemporary roguery committed by a group of friends in an inner city sharehouse and ... -
New Versions of Roguery
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Songs of America: A Review of John Berryman’s Public Vision by Philip Coleman (Dublin: UCD P, 2014)
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The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely ... -
Timothy Findley, His Biographers, and The Piano Man’s Daughter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In this paper, Sherrill Grace, Findley’s biographer, will examine her biographical practices in the context of Findley’s own memoir, Inside Memory, and his interest in creating fictional auto/biographers and auto/biography ... -
Transvestite M(other) in the Canadian North: Isobel Gunn by Audrey Thomas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article focuses on the eponymous protagonist of Isobel Gunn, a Canadian feminist historical novel by Audrey Thomas, published in 1999. Based on a real story, the novel fictionalizes the life of an Orcadian woman who ... -
”A past that has never been present”: The Literary Experience of Childhood and Nostalgia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)This essay explores the modernist aesthetic involved in creating a fictive, nostalgic, childhood experience. Evoking the experience of childhood through fiction is as close to actually reliving childhood as we can get. The ... -
Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the ... -
“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography
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(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum. -
The New Sentence: June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In the final part of the paper, I contrast the New Sentence parataxis with a more practical, more spontaneous (albeit more conventional) approach embodied by June Jordan. The paratactic structures of her writing remain ... -
Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and the Language of Diversity in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez’s 1527 expedition to the New World in which Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors. His account has received ...