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Subverting the Gaze, Seducing with the Bible: A Study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The present article engages with the eponymous character of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and focuses on her subversion of the patriarchal rules, and on her attempts at seducing the prophet Jokanaan. Wilde’s Salomé becomes “an ... -
Intertextuality of C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The Chronicles of Narnia has an established position in the canon of children’s literature. However, what on the surface is a fairy tale involving adventures and magic; with children, kings, talking beasts, and wood ... -
Whodunit to Irene Adler? From “the Woman” to “the Dominatrix” – on the Transformation of the Heroine in the Adapting Process and Her Representation in the Sherlock Miniseries
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)One of the peculiar characteristics of the Sherlock Holmes fandom is that it has always had a tendency to blow innuendos in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories out of proportion. One might argue that such is the case of Irene ... -
Intertextual Adaptability of the Character of Sherlock Holmes from Literature to Film Production
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)This study explores the theme of intertextuality and adaptation between literature and film on the basis of Sherlock Holmes, the 19th/20th-century character conceived by Arthur Conan Doyle. It shows how the character has ... -
Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)This paper examines the importance of the Orpheus myth during the English Renaissance. The Orpheus myth was one of the most common mythic intertexts of the period due to the fact that we could see the very story of Orpheus ... -
The Power of Music in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)Tolkien valued music in his private life, and this is mirrored in his works about Middle-Earth, which owes its very existence to music. It is born out of the song of the Ainur. But the role of music does not end with this ... -
The Comic Image of the Courtly Love Ideals in Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The Arthurian legends have fascinated and inspired people for ages. Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory is one of the best compilations of the stories about King Arthur and his peers. This romance deals with the ... -
Phonaesthetic Phonological Iconicity in Literary Analysis Illustrated by Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The article offers a phonosemantic analysis of Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber.” The phonosemantic investigation has been based on the corpus of nineteen relevant sound-related descriptions of the sea. Although most ... -
Women and Intertextuality: On the Example of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The aim of the study is to consider feminist retellings of myths and legends. As an example, Margaret Atwood’s book The Penelopiad is analyzed. The interpretation is situated in a broader context of intertextual practices ... -
The Transformation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The mother/daughter bond is the central subject of Amy Tan’s two powerful books, The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Tensions that arise in the novels between a Chinese mother and her Chinese-American daughter ... -
Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2014)The following article is to introduce the reader into a cultural and intellectual movement whose aim is to identify the need for improvement in human life in the sphere of physicality as well as mentality with the aid ... -
The Ambiguous Identity of a Dog as a Mongrelized Storyteller in John Berger's King (1999)
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)The dog named King, the central character and narrator of John Berger’s “King” published in 1999, is the offshoot of many apparently incongruent genre conventions as well as the offspring of the ambivalent prejudice and ... -
A review of Emma Wilby’s The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex University Press, 2010)
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Laying Bare: Agamben, Chandler, and The Responsibility to Protect
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)This paper demonstrates the hidden similarities between Raymond Chandler’s prototypical noir The Big Sleep, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) document. By taking up the work of philosopher Giorgio ... -
The Power of Poetic Praxis in the Literature of Pat Mora and Ana Castillo
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Chicana literary work is predominantly characterized by poetry. Lyrical poetic phrases are interwoven into Chicanas’ short stories, novels, theoretical, and critical essays. Why poetry? What is distinct about poetry as ... -
Vision and Violence in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Virginia Woolf describes her artistic goal in The Waves as an attempt to create “an abstract mystical eyeless book.” Yet, in creating her eyeless book, one that eschews a single narrative perspective, Woolf amasses ... -
Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)The Fifty Shades series has brought erotic fiction to a broader and more mainstream audience than ever before. In its wake, a number of erotic romance series have achieved unprecedented popularity, such as Sylvia Day’s ... -
The American Dream and American Greed in Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall: Sentimental and Satirical Christian Discourse in the Popular Domestic Tale
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Although Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time originally was a widely popular book in the nineteenth century, Fern and Ruth Hall were criticized after readers learned about the similarities among ... -
Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing is a convoluted representation of the mentallyunstable mind existing as a series of six characters that are at once separate and conjoined: the horrors and traumatic events of the ... -
Threats or Victims: The Ambiguous Nature of Supernatural Creatures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s and George R. R. Martin’s Fantasy
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)Many postcolonial readings of fantasy fiction focus on exploring complicated relationships between different fantastic races that inhabit a certain secondary world. However, such studies often overlook interactions of ...