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Tanja Cummings’ Line 41: A Reflection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12) -
Teaching Psychomachia in The Castle of Perseverance
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Narrator’s Identity and the Pursuit of Trespassing Boundaries in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)The article focuses on the problem of the narrator’s and the author’s identity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. According to Charles Taylor’s philosophy of subjectivity in order to have an identity we have to know what ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Them and Us – Pintér Béla’s Blood-Red, Off-White, Dark Green and András Urbán’s Sacra Hungarica in Context
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-01-12)The paper wishes to document a recent trend visible in the Hungarian independent theatre scene – a turn towards social, political issues, as well as a growing sensitivity towards the visible tensions in Hungarian political ... -
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 ... -
Towards a Non-hierarchical Space of Thought: Reading Roland Barthes’ The Neutral
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2015)The article is devoted to The Neutral: the 1977-1978 lecture course developed and taught by Roland Barthes at the Collège de France. I argue that The Neutral is firmly rooted in the tradition that Brian Massumi defined ... -
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 ... -
The Vivified Sacrificial Rites as the Site of Conflation of Man and Animal in Adele Wiseman’s "The Sacrifice"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article juxtaposes two explanations of the ancient phenomenon of sacrifice, one of which, formulated by René Girard, emphasizes the aspects of scapegoating and transference of people’s violent inclinations, while the ... -
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 ... -
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 ...