Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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Cosmic Hunt, Copper Electroplating, Chaosmic Transduction: Chaosmotechnics of Molecular Collaboration in Matthew Barney’s Redoubt Project (2016–21)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The article considers Matthew Barney’s artistic project Redoubt (2016–21) from the point of view of Gilbert Simondon’s transductive philosophy of individuation. Informed by Simondon—read here with Félix Guattari, Gilles ... -
“How Do You Know Who You Are?”: Marjorie Prime on Envisioning Humanity Through the Faculty of AI-Powered Memory as Reconstructive Tissue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)In reference to the theme of the issue devoted to literary extremities, Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime raises thought-provoking questions about the potential benefits and drawbacks of advanced AI technology by ... -
Practices of Planetary Relationality in Colum McCann’s Apeirogon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)For a number of critics, what we are witnessing in postmillennial Anglophone fiction is an attempt to do away with postmodern posturings of ironic distance and ethical non-commitment, and a renewed interest in questions ... -
HTML Texts and the Dawn of Asemic Digital Literature: Exploring Dennis Cooper’s Ideas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Dennis Cooper’s HTML texts which use Graphic Interchange Format (GIFs) instead of traditional glyph-based text, exhibit the extremities of our times, both thematically and structurally, through the radical temporality of ... -
Plasticity and the Poetics of Inside-Out Inversion in Emmett Williams and Roman Stańczak
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Informed by the current call for a reassessment of the concepts of radicalism and extremity in the fields of literature and visual arts, my study aims to investigate the radicalities entailed by the tactics of turning ... -
The Extremities of Literature: Traumatic Memory in Two Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Drawing on Michel Foucault’s description of literature as being from the outside, Catherine Malabou explains that only literature can give us access to the inconceivable space occupied by traumatic experiences. How a ... -
“What I lack is myself”: The Fluid Text and the Dialogic Subjectivity in Susan Howe’s Debths
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)James Joyce’s neologism “debths” (Finnegans Wake) that Susan Howe elects for the title of her 2017 volume of poetry points to at least three semantic coordinates of “obligation,” “trespass,” and “demise,” never—due to its ... -
Delimit / De-limit: Barbara Guest at Kandinsky’s Window
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This essay reads Barbara Guest’s poem “The View from Kandinsky’s Window” from her 1989 collection Fair Realism alongside Wassily Kandinsky’s own theories of form and abstraction. It argues that Guest’s poetic reinvention ... -
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 ... -
Clark Coolidge’s The Land of All Time: An Affectively Restless Ecopoem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Clark Coolidge (1939–) is often connected with language poetry and the New York School. The language of his poetry is opaque and disjunctive, like that of the artists associated with the first group, but it is also energetic, ... -
Duration of the Archive: Soundscapes of Extreme Witnessing in Divya Victor’s Curb
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This paper examines the significance of soundscapes in the Tamil American poet Divya Victor’s reconstruction of the archive of anti-South Asian violence in her acclaimed poetry collection Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021). Being ... -
The Posthuman Body as an EcoGothic Wasteland in Allison Cobb’s After We All Died and Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The focus of my inquiry are environmentally inflected metaphors and discourses of toxicity which inform the contemporary North American posthuman lyric. This provisional generic category of the posthuman lyric has been ... -
Negotiating Interior Frontiers: Lara Haddad’s A Question of History (2015–16)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Bringing together insights originating in law studies and art analysis, this article approaches the work of the US-based Syrian artist Lara Haddad through the figuration of “interior frontiers,” exposing how both “interior ... -
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“Productivity of Constraint”: Wit Pietrzak in Conversation with Philip Terry
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A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Nec Tecum Nec Sine Te: The Inseparability of Word and Image in Virginia Woolf
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article explores the interaction of verbal and visual art in Virginia Woolf’s fiction, exemplified by her novel, To the Lighthouse. The narrative of the novel not only features scenes of the painting of the Ramsays’ ... -
The Butterfly Effect: Creating and Recreating the Story of Madame Butterfly, on Paper and on Stage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The consequences of the partially coerced opening of Japan to the Western world in the second half of the 19th century went far beyond economic and political goals and considerations. The previously secluded land almost ... -
Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay analyzes Michèle Roberts’s 2012 story “On the Beach at Trouville” as an ekphrasis of Claude Monet’s early Impressionist painting, The Beach at Trouville. It first approaches the narrative though W. J. T. Mitchell’s ... -
Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The aim of the article is to compare three (re)creative activities within one interdisciplinary project: a public space (14 Henrietta St. Museum in Dublin), poetry (Paula Meehan’s cycle of sonnets in Museum of 2019) and ...