Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 11/2021 według daty wydania
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“Brought up to Live Double Lives”: Intelligence and Espionage as Literary and Philosophical Figures in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place and For All We Know
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines the figure of the spy—alongside themes related to espionage—as employed in two books by the Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson (1948–2019): the volume of poems For All We Know (2008) and the novel ... -
Tragic Victims of Mania a Potu (“Madness from Drink”): A Study of Literary Nineteenth-Century Female Drunkards
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Temperance literature, though widely popular in America and Britain between 1830–80, lost its allure in the decades that followed. In spite of its didactic and moralistic nature, the public eagerly consumed temperance ... -
Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper aims to present the main contours of Burns’s literary output which, interestingly enough, grows into a personal understanding of the collective mindset of (post)-Troubles Northern Ireland. It is legitimate, I ... -
From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Since their first screen appearances in the 1930s, zombies have enjoyed immense cinematic popularity. Defined by Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as mindless, violent, decaying and infectious, they successfully ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“Never Trust a Survivor”: Historical Trauma, Postmemory and the Armenian Genocide in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article focuses on Kurt Vonnegut’s lesser-known and underappreciated 1987 novel Bluebeard, which is analyzed and interpreted in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s seminal theory of postmemory. Even though it was published ... -
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 ... -
Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Terror narratives have been characterized by a dialogism where the “normative” I—i.e. the “non-threatening mainstream”—defines and delineates subjects whose identity is centred on their (actual or presumed) location in the ... -
“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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Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Addressing trauma as a phenomenon which happens on the level of the human psyche and body, this article explores the impact of the interlocking nature of human lingual and bodily being in discovering a fuller possibility ... -
Aligning with Sociopaths: Character Engagement Strategies in Highsmith’s and Minghella’s Talented Mr. Ripleys
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Patricia Highsmith’s stated reason for writing The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) was to see if she could elicit empathetic engagement for her immoral protagonist Tom Ripley. Amongst other factors, she achieves her goal by ... -
Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem. That is, a better ... -
Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam
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Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This article analyzes selected short stories in Cecelia Ahern’s thirty-narrative collection Roar (2018) to see how (and with what losses or gains) the perspectives of posthuman and postfeminist critique can be incorporated ... -
Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since ... -
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 ... -
The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgiveness and justice in The Tragedy of King Lear. In my reading I employ Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological reflection on the ... -
Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses the evolving image of female characters in the Mad Max saga directed by George Miller, focusing on Furiosa’s rebellion in the last film—Mad Max: Fury Road. Interestingly, studying Miller’s post-apocalyptic ...