Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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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 Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child. The queen ... -
Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead ... -
Taking Sides on Severed Heads: Kristeva at the Louvre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The theorist and philosopher Julia Kristeva is invited to curate an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris as part of a series-Parti Pris (Taking Sides)- and to turn this into a book, The Severed Head: Capital Visions. The ... -
Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The article applies selected concepts from the writings of Julia Kristeva to the analysis of a novel by Doris Lessing entitled The Cleft. Published in 2007, The Cleft depicts the origin of sexual difference in the human ... -
“When China Meets China”: Sinéad Morrissey’s Figurations of the Orient, or the Function of Alterity in Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This article attempts to investigate the potential resonances between Paul Ricoeur’s and Julia Kristeva’s theories of otherness as applied to the study of poetry by the Northern-Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey. In all of her ... -
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
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 ... -
“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The author of the paper analyzes John Milton’s great epic narrative through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical reflection, in particular the second chapter of the philosopher’s last ... -
Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)How can we, as individuals and as members of religious, educational, and/ or social institutions, more adequately respond to the crises of sexual abuse that have come to light in recent years? This paper will address this ... -
Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, “visible” ... -
A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”
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Editorial
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“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01) -
“On the radio the pictures are better”
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Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011)
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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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A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ...