Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 161-180 z 361
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Representing Absence: Contemporary Ekphrasis in “Apesh-t”
Handley, Agata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
Traditionally, ekphrasis has been defined as the description and analysis of works of art in poetry, and so it has been understood as the verbalization of visual images (Sager Eidt). The article examines the concept in the ... -
Camp and Pop: David Bowie, Oskar Schlemmer, Madonna and Janelle Monáe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While contemporary pop culture is nowadays considered part of the cultural mainstream, its practices of codification and its use and circulation of signifiers are still shaped by its roots in counterculture. This leads to ... -
Dalí, Disney and Destino: Alchemy in Animation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Salvador Dalí claimed that he made his whole life “a work of alchemy.” He saw in alchemy the principle of metamorphosis and “the transmutation of bodies.” Carl Jung recognized “imaginatio” as the key to alchemy. As Patrick ... -
Made to Connive: Revisioning Cinderella in a Music Video. From Disney to Arthur Pirozkhov: A Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article focuses on the way in which music videos can subvert and refigure the message of literature and film. The author sets out to demonstrate how a music video entitled “Зацепила” by Arthur Pirozkhov (Aleksandr ... -
IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This essay is about the essay, a form (as Adorno called it) of thought alive that is partial in the two senses of the word: subjective and fragmented. Thinking as social, performative, and always un-finished; as dialogic. ... -
L’homme agissant and Self-understanding: Pamela Sue Anderson on Capability and Vulnerability
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article addresses Pamela Sue Anderson’s philosophy of capability and vulnerability as an important contribution to the advancement of today’s feminist ethics. Following Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of l’homme capable, ... -
“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this paper I assess how Guy Vanderhaeghe’s early fiction criticizes the class-based and civil movements of post-1960s Saskatchewan through the recurring character of Ed. The protagonist of “Man Descending” and “Sam, ... -
Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my ... -
The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s "Scorpio Rising" and Steven Spielberg’s "Duel"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper analyzes the ways in which Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963) and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971) draw on and challenge selected road movie conventions by adhering to the genre’s traditional reliance on cultural ... -
“You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s "Monster" as Rogue Cinema
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Film is a powerful medium that can influence audience’s perceptions, values and ideals. As filmmaking evolved into a serious art form, it became a powerful tool for telling stories that require us to re-examine our ideology. ... -
Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis
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Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Imagining super rich women in the real and fictional world has long been a struggle. Those few depictions that do exist are scattered across time periods and literary genres, reflecting the legal restrictions that, at ... -
Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)It was in the mid-twentieth century that the independent theatrical form based entirely on improvisation, known now as improvisational/improvised theatre, impro or improv, came into existence and took shape. Viola Spolin, ... -
Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s "Concrete Island"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the way in which surrealist techniques and assumptions underpin spatial representations in Ballard’s Concrete Island. With much of Ballard’s fiction using spatiality as an ideologically charged ... -
Don DeLillo’s "White Noise": A Virilian Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Don DeLillo’s White Noise depicts a world of rapid techno-scientific and economical changes. Paul Virilio’s concepts of dromology and speed, as well as his notions of accident and technology, seem to be the most relevant ... -
“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"
Handley, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
In 2003, Martin Rees referred to the present as “mankind’s final century.” A few years later, Slavoj Žižek wrote that humankind is heading towards “apocalyptic zero-point,” when the ecological crisis will most probably ... -
On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with a focus on textual manifestations of the figure of the trickster. The theme of shape-shifting and transformation that one usually associates with tricksters is ... -
What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In his pioneering study of Grande Dame Guignol (also referred to as hag horror or psycho-biddy), a female-centric 1960s subgenre of horror film, Peter Shelley explains that the grande dame, a stock character in this form ... -
A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s "The Songlines" Reconsidered
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article revisits, analyzes and critiques Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 bestseller, The Songlines, more than three decades after its publication. In Songlines, the book primarily responsible for his posthumous celebrity, Chatwin ...