Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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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, ... -
Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Taking a cue from Tim Ingold’s post-humanist reflection on building and dwelling as more-than-human practices, the article aims to revisit dwelling as a strategy of “collaborative survival” (Tsing) in the context of the ... -
Breaking the Promise of Perfection: Imperfect Utopias in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In an era still plagued by popularized skepticism toward utopian thought, Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time remains a compelling exploration of potential futures. This essay juxtaposes anti-utopian critiques ... -
Dwelling in the Urban Liminal: A Phenomenological Consideration of Saul Leiter’s Street Photography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In this essay, I present a phenomenological exploration of the “urban liminal” in the context of Saul Leiter’s street photography. In gauging the possibilities of dwelling in the urban liminal, this essay brings into ... -
How to Dwell in Garbage Patches? Waste Communities in the Aftermath of Ancestral Catastrophe in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article approaches the problem of dwelling in areas affected by environmental crises through the lens of two speculative fabulations. Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes ... -
Cities and Their People: Dwelling in the Anthropic Time of N. K. Jemisin’s New York
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article starts with Martin Heidegger’s 1951 essay “Bauen Wohnen Denken,” recently rethought by Jeff Malpas in his book Rethinking Dwelling from today’s perspective of urban and metropolitan dwelling. However, while ... -
Filling the Gaps in Broken Memory while Renewing the Cityscape: Navigating Belonging in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The Red-Haired Woman, one of Orhan Pamuk’s post-Nobel novels, is a concise, fable-like narrative that delves into the complexities of father-son conflicts. The novel parallels the journey of the protagonist, Cem, with the ... -
“This house is so lonely!”: Home, Belonging, and Identity in Memoirs of Loss and Grief
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This analysis explores select autobiographical representations of relationships the bereaved develop with their surroundings in the context of a major death-related loss. After a significant loss, the concepts of home, ... -
Cathartic Paths of the Gothic in Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Gothic is employed in Joanna Bator’s novel Ciemno, prawie noc [Dark, Almost Night]. I frame my analysis on the author’s assertion that “Poland is a horror,” exploring firstly ... -
Back in the Old Country: Homecoming and Belonging in Leonard Kniffel’s A Polish Son in the Motherland: An American’s Journey Home and Kapka Kassabova’s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Homecoming travel narratives are typically written by first-wave immigrants, their children, or grandchildren. Usually, homecoming books are accounts of emotionally charged travels that oscillate between nostalgia and ... -
Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The philosophy of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion departs from the transcendental role of the subject. No longer is the subject regarded as its own foundation, nor does it own or constitute its objects. Instead, it ... -
The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing
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Dwelling and Departure: Beginning Disputes between Arendt and Heidegger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger juxtaposes the notion of homelessness (Heimlosigkeit) with home-coming (Heimholung), i.e. the reawakening to our original relationship to Being. This focus on dwelling in Being ... -
Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper analyzes selections from Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, to study the complex act of nation-building taking place in India during the first half of the twentieth century. Through these periodicals, it ... -
Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022)
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“All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022)
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Harry Styles as a Cecaelia: Sexuality, Representation and Media-lore in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The music video for Harry Styles’s 2022 track “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” (directed by Aube Perrie) provides a surprising representation of the pop star (arguably at the peak of his career) appearing as a cecaelia (a ... -
Abjection of the Other in Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend: The Subject’s Deterrence Strategy for Becoming the Abject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954) is about the volatile relationship between Robert Neville—the sole survivor of the human race—and vampires as the members of a brave new world order. While many critics tend to read ... -
Envisioning the Ecological Future: Three Perspectives off the Beaten Track
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)With few truly hopeful visions currently emerging from mainstream academia or from established science concerning humanity’s collective environmental outlook, it might be necessary to go off the beaten track in order to ... -
Erasing “Knowable Communities”: From Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Brassed Off
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper discusses cinematic representations of working class communities in British cinema from the pre-war documentary movement to (post-)Thatcher feature films chronicling the decline of traditional industries. A ...