Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent acknowledgement of the Anthropocene, resulting from the increasingly visible human-induced effects on the biosphere, has ultimately obliterated the nature/culture division (Latour; Chakrabarty), prompting ... -
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys
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Firing up the Anthropocene: Conflagration, Representation and Temporality in Modern Australia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The European colonization of Australia introduced a new population into a continent in which Indigenous people had practiced cyclic burning as a form of ecosystem maintenance since time immemorial. The settlers’ complete ... -
Prophesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Despite being written half a century before the term “eco-anxiety” (Gifford and Gifford) was coined, J. G. Ballard’s disaster fictions can be read in the context of the social psychodynamics of climate change. My aim in ... -
How Deep Time Can Help Shape the Present: Existential Economics, “Joyful Insignificance” and the Future of the Ecological Transition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)An awareness of deep time—both humanity’s deep past and the Earth’s deep future—and an understanding of its existential implications can significantly enhance the chances that humanity might still be able to transition ... -
Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss
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Winter’s Tales
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“Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future”: Writing About the Long Descent, Practicing Green Wizardry. A Conversation with John Michael Greer
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Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Narratives of the Anthropocene function in the realm of not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, the most popular narratives of the Anthropocene, namely the story of the apocalypse and the story of progress, ... -
“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)New Nature Writing reflects many of the anxieties which are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Anthropocene, an era which necessitates temporal leaps between the present moment, the deep past, and the deep future. ... -
Introduction
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A Review of Natalie Crohn Schmitt, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570–1630 (Routledge, 2019)
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“Whenever there’s too much technology”: A Review of Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner, 2020)
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Thinking about Thinking Nothing: A Review of Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism (MIT P, 2019)
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Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper discusses translation practices from a historicist viewpoint, contextualizing them in their emerging “episode.” The latter is a concept drawn from sociology of literature and accounts for the rise of certain ... -
A Review of Agnieszka Łowczanin, A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic: Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe (Peter Lang, 2018)
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Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Literary renditions of cities have always gravitated towards the spatial imagination and its ethical counterpart outside the textual space. This paper explores the multicultural geography of the North Indian city Allahabad ... -
One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations with a focus on various modes of transtranslation/transcreation/transaption of Matsuo Bashō’s famous frog haiku. The emphasis is placed on the complexities (of ... -
Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” is a particularly noteworthy example of the sublime, a psychological state in which one is overwhelmed by the magnitude of that which is perceived ... -
Griselda’s Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and the Tale of Magic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Some influence of Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale, also known as the story of the patient Griselda, on Shakespeare, and particularly on The Winter’s Tale, has long been recognized. It seems, however, that the matter deserves ...