• Sprachliche Mittel des Humoristischen im Deutschen und im Polnischen 

  Sikorska-Bujnowicz, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Monografia wychodzi w znakomity sposób naprzeciw podejściu interdyscyplinarnemu i kontrastywnemu, korzystającemu z dorobku kilku dziedzin naukowych. Stąd też należy wysoko ocenić penetrowanie przez Autorkę obszarów leżących ...

• Brief Interviews with Liminality: The Case of David Foster Wallace 

  Więckowska, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The beginning of the twenty first century can be described as a liminal period of discarding old interests and preoccupations in preparation for the arrival of something new. This feeling of standing on a threshold is also ...

• Great Expectations: Incest and Incompleteness in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School 

  Tardi, Mark (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Often situated as a radical response to the late 1970s New York punk scene, the work of American writer Kathy Acker leverages an array of subversive literary techniques to actively interrogate extremely uncomfortable social ...

• “Smilers, Defilers, Reekers and Leakers” – Dogs as Tools of Subversion and Transgression in Short Stories by Edgar A. Poe, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce 

  Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  In this article I will analyze three satirical stories written by Edgar A. Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain. The common denominator of them is the presence of dogs and their eccentric subject matter and controversial ...

• Subversive Form, Provocative Content and Truth at All Costs: Liberature of B. S. Johnson 

  Janik, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The purpose of this article is to approach extreme and subversive experience in B. S. Johnson’s novels. Johnson’s fictions and his critical writings raise the problem of the condition of contemporary literature and its ...

• The Discourse of Orientalism in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia 

  Wicher, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  It has been stated, on the basis of certain motifs in The Chronicles of Narnia, that “like many Englishmen of his era, Lewis was unconsciously but regrettably unsympathetic to things and people Middle Eastern” (Ford 363). ...

• Damsels and Demons: Transgressive Females from Clarissa to Carmilla 

  Łowczanin, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Stories featuring female vampires transgress moral boundaries and subvert the cultural allocation of gender. The purpose of this paper is to look at the first Victorian example of such a story, “Carmilla” by J. S. Le Fanu, ...

• The Rite-of-Passage Structure in Medieval and Early Modern Visionary Accounts 

  Kowzan, Jacek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The aim of this paper is to apply Arnold van Gennep’s and Victor Turner’s conceptual scheme of the rite of passage to medieval and early modern visions of the hereafter. Most of the visionary accounts (e.g., Drythelm’s ...

• Transgressing the Normative in Edwin Morgan’s “Message Clear” 

  Kocot, Monika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Edwin Morgan’s poetics of the language-game can be seen as functionalised in many contexts: historical, cultural, social, political, and aesthetic. A genuine Scot, known for his subversive political and social views, Morgan ...

• Geographic Transgression and Epic Theatre: The Subversiveness of the Pastoral Idyll in Edward Bond’s Lear 

  Schardt, Andreas (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The pastoral has often been defined in terms of an idyllic retreat where man can regain his former unity with nature, from which he has been alienated as a consequence of urban life. At the same time, however, the pastoral ...

• Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber 

  Bodas Fernández, Lucía (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The aim of this paper is to analyze one of the most problematic works of the German poet and philosopher, Friedrich Schiller: his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers, 1782). Following Hammer and Hart’s Gadamerian literary ...

• Legal and Social Discourse of Matrimony in Selected N-Town Cycle Plays 

  Wiącek, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The Marriage of Mary and Joseph, Joseph’s Doubt and The Trial of Mary and Joseph are fifteenth-century pageants from the cycle known as The N-Town Plays (or Ludus Coventriae). The first centres on legal and social controversies ...

• Staging Transgression Stories in the Later Middle Ages: Divine Fiat, Truth and Justice in the N-Town Play of the Annunciation 

  Ciobanu, Estella Antoaneta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The Middle English Annunciation plays dramatise a heterological encounter whose stakes, Mary’s willing collaboration with God in the salvific project, can be brought to bear on both the Christian meta-narrative and the ...

• Introduction 

  Kazik, Joanna; Mirowska, Paulina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

• Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Creative Drama or Scholarly Exercise? 

  McTurk, Rory (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún consists of two long narrative poems on the major events of Völsunga saga, making use, where possible, of eddic sources as well as the saga, and accompanied by notes written ...

• Gender/Genre Disruption in Bryony Lavery’s Her Aching Heart 

  Lorek-Jezińska, Edyta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The objective of the present paper is to examine the two contrastive yet interconnected processes activated in parody: conservative and revolutionary. The conservative drive is associated with the continuation and reinforcement ...

• The Nature of Contemporary Catharsis in Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats… 

  Krzyżaniak, Dagmara (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Hester Swane, the protagonist of Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats..., one of the most subversive female characters in modern Irish drama, is a contemporary Medea. As her suffering becomes extreme and her despair escalates, ...

• Sensory Transgression: Literary Representations of Women’s Sight and Hearing in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet 

  Sosnowska, Monika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  The article focuses on literary representations of women’s sight and hearing in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It firstly addresses the meaning and significance of sensory perception in Western culture. The emphasis is put ...

• The Mathematics in a Dramatic Text – A Disappearing Number by Complicite 

  Wiśniewski, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  A Disappearing Number gives vent to Simon McBurney’s fascination with science, in this case with mathematics. The story of the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan constituted the groundwork for the collective theatrical ...

• Quantum Mechanics and the Relativity of Human Identity: Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood 

  Uchman, Jadwiga (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)

  Tom Stoppard’s Hapgood has often been discussed as a spy drama employing intertextual references to physics (quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle) and mathematics (Euler’s geometry) to detect a traitor in the English ...

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