• Reviews/Interviews 

  Sumera Adam; Pietrzak Wit; Kocot Monika; Faqir Fadia; Assif Maria; Ravvin Norman; Majer, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź)

• Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities 

  Rizzo, Alessandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed ...

• Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or 

  Gray, Richard J. II (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille. From the very ...

• Changing Notes in the Voices beyond the Rooster Coop: A Neo-Capitalist Coup in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger 

  Shetty, Praveen; Prabhu, Vishnumoorthy; T., Pratapchandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger encapsulates the complexities of identity formation in a milieu effected by neo-capitalism. The novel, for many, is about a new identity made available to the hitherto marginalized in ...

• Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories 

  Maszewska, Jadwiga (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ...

• Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors 

  Gilarek, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on theEdge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split ...

• The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 1) 

  Lindfors, Bernth (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  The sons of famous men sometimes fail to succeed in life, particularly if they suffer parental neglect in their childhood and youth. Ira Daniel Aldridge is a case in point-a promising lad who in his formative years lacked ...

• Annie Proulx’s Imaginative Leap: Constructing Gay Masculinity in “Brokeback Mountain” 

  Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Non-heterosexual men have long existed on the social and cultural margins. Gay and bisexual male characters in literature, too, have done so for many generations. This essay explores the construction of gay masculinity in ...

• Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History 

  Sharrad, Paul (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. ...

• “Throw[ing] the Longest Shadows”: The Significance of the Bogus Quotation for Arcadia by Jim Crace 

  Wojciechowska, Sylwia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Preceding his Arcadia with a non-existing quotation, Jim Crace proves to be no Arcadian innocent: challenging the shrewdness of his readers, the contemporary novelist seems to take pleasure in inviting them to an intellectual ...

• Edward Said and the Margins 

  Thomas, Tom (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ...

• Bianca Looks from above the Book: Readings on the Margin of Bruno Schulz’s Ex-Libris for Stanisław Weingarten 

  Maszewski, Zbigniew (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  The essay traces correspondences between the elements of the 1919 Pierrot ex-libris and the books from Weingarten’s collection which, with time, included and gave privileged position to the works of Bruno Schulz. Among the ...

• The Shortest Way to Modernity Is via the Margins: J.H. Prynne’s Later Poetry 

  Pietrzak, Wit (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  In the essay an attempt is made to investigate the processes of construction and reconstruction of meaning in the later books of the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne. It has been argued that his poetry disturbs the act of ...

• The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration 

  Kliś, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A. Bové’s consideration ...

• The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle 

  Beville, Maria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a ...

• At the Margins of the World: The Nature of Limits in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line 

  Lord, Catherine M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) is an anti-war film which can be read as an Orphic narrative meditating on the relationship between humans and “nature.” Many scholarly readings of the film have been attracted ...

• “The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests 

  Małecka, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ...

• Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot 

  Uchman, Jadwiga (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article ...

• Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation 

  Filipczak, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

• The Margins of the Rational Man: Fluid Identities in Eighteenth-Century Biography 

  Over, William (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

  This study will explore the Enlightenment conception of the individual of reason, its attempted formulations in actor biographies, and its ultimate denial by the reality of human identity as multiple, fluid, and dialogical. ...

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