Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Dialogic, but Monologic: Toxic Masculinity Meets #MeToo in Teddy Wayne’s Campus Novel Loner
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Teddy Wayne’s 2016 Loner tells the story of a Harvard freshman’s sexual obsession with a fellow student, leading to stalking and attempted rape. On a deeper level, the campus novel can be interpreted as a critique of wider ... -
“The particulars of loss”: Grief Memoirs and Their Pragmatic Applications
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Death is commonly pushed to the periphery in contemporary society, leaving the grief-struck to endure the turbulent nature of their loss alone. Unsurprisingly, our mortality-denying times have witnessed the proliferation ... -
Grievable Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: US-American Television, Melodrama and the Work of Mourning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The present article applies Judith Butler’s notion of “grievable life” to reflect on the manner in which selected US-American television series engaged in the work of mourning and memorializing the loss of life in the first ... -
Artist Collaboration and Unity in Times of Crisis: The Spirals Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The pandemic crisis of COVID-19 that we have recently endured, and that to some extent we are still experiencing, abruptly changed the way in which we conceive of the interaction between inner and outer space. Specifically, ... -
“English with a Polish Accent and a Slight Touch of Irish”: Multilingualism in Polish Migrant Theatre
Prykowska-Michalak, Karolina
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Issues of migration writing (see Kosmalska) and migrant theatre have recently gained prominence, leading to an increase in research focused on analyzing the theatrical works of artists with a migrant background. This ... -
Waves of Pixels and Wordgenerated Algorithms: Drone Poetry as a Collaborative Practice between Machine and Human in Waveform by Richard A. Carter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The following article explores the creative collaborative practices in digital poetry between more-than-human agents. Richard A. Carter’s artistic project Waveform (2017–) makes one reconsider the ways in which multimodal ...