Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 13/2023 według daty wydania
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Radical Ecopoetics: The Apocalyptic Vision of Jorie Graham’s Sea Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Jorie Graham’s Sea Change (2008) addresses the environmental crisis engendered by climate change, sending us a dire warning of the end of humanity by featuring an apocalyptic world. Sea Change gives a poetic voice to the ... -
Duration of the Archive: Soundscapes of Extreme Witnessing in Divya Victor’s Curb
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This paper examines the significance of soundscapes in the Tamil American poet Divya Victor’s reconstruction of the archive of anti-South Asian violence in her acclaimed poetry collection Curb (Nightboat Books, 2021). 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 ... -
“English with a Polish Accent and a Slight Touch of Irish”: Multilingualism in Polish Migrant Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)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 ... -
Clark Coolidge’s The Land of All Time: An Affectively Restless Ecopoem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Clark Coolidge (1939–) is often connected with language poetry and the New York School. The language of his poetry is opaque and disjunctive, like that of the artists associated with the first group, but it is also energetic, ... -
HTML Texts and the Dawn of Asemic Digital Literature: Exploring Dennis Cooper’s Ideas
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Dennis Cooper’s HTML texts which use Graphic Interchange Format (GIFs) instead of traditional glyph-based text, exhibit the extremities of our times, both thematically and structurally, through the radical temporality of ... -
The Posthuman Body as an EcoGothic Wasteland in Allison Cobb’s After We All Died and Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The focus of my inquiry are environmentally inflected metaphors and discourses of toxicity which inform the contemporary North American posthuman lyric. This provisional generic category of the posthuman lyric has been ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Plasticity and the Poetics of Inside-Out Inversion in Emmett Williams and Roman Stańczak
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Informed by the current call for a reassessment of the concepts of radicalism and extremity in the fields of literature and visual arts, my study aims to investigate the radicalities entailed by the tactics of turning ... -
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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Cosmic Hunt, Copper Electroplating, Chaosmic Transduction: Chaosmotechnics of Molecular Collaboration in Matthew Barney’s Redoubt Project (2016–21)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The article considers Matthew Barney’s artistic project Redoubt (2016–21) from the point of view of Gilbert Simondon’s transductive philosophy of individuation. Informed by Simondon—read here with Félix Guattari, Gilles ... -
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 ... -
“How Do You Know Who You Are?”: Marjorie Prime on Envisioning Humanity Through the Faculty of AI-Powered Memory as Reconstructive Tissue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)In reference to the theme of the issue devoted to literary extremities, Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime raises thought-provoking questions about the potential benefits and drawbacks of advanced AI technology by ... -
Negotiating Interior Frontiers: Lara Haddad’s A Question of History (2015–16)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Bringing together insights originating in law studies and art analysis, this article approaches the work of the US-based Syrian artist Lara Haddad through the figuration of “interior frontiers,” exposing how both “interior ... -
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 ... -
“What I lack is myself”: The Fluid Text and the Dialogic Subjectivity in Susan Howe’s Debths
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)James Joyce’s neologism “debths” (Finnegans Wake) that Susan Howe elects for the title of her 2017 volume of poetry points to at least three semantic coordinates of “obligation,” “trespass,” and “demise,” never—due to its ... -
“All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)