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Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The article applies selected concepts from the writings of Julia Kristeva to the analysis of a novel by Doris Lessing entitled The Cleft. Published in 2007, The Cleft depicts the origin of sexual difference in the human ... -
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 ... -
Affective Realities and Conceptual Contradictions of Patricia Piccinini’s Art: Ecofeminist and Disability Studies Perspectives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s art called That’s Us (Toruń, CSW) largely represents the Australian artist’s visions and fascinations known from earlier exhibitions. Questioning and erasing the borders between ... -
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 ... -
“All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022)
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"Alternative Selves" and Authority in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The article engages with "alternative selves," a concept found in The Stone Carvers by a Canadian writer, Jane Urquhart. Her fiction is first seen in the context of selected texts by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Laurence ... -
Annie Proulx’s Imaginative Leap: Constructing Gay Masculinity in “Brokeback Mountain”
(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 ... -
Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of which his work tends to be ... -
Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The decade after the attacks of 9/11 and the fall of the World Trade Center saw a proliferation of New York-themed literary anthologies from a wide range of publishers. With titles like Poetry After 9/11, Manhattan Sonnet, ... -
Apocalypse When? Storytelling and Spiralic Time in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Contemporary climate fiction (cli-fi) frequently invokes the concept of apocalypse to explore the experience of living through the era of unprecedented climate change and environmental disaster that has been named the ... -
Apocalypse . . . Eventually: Trans-Corporeality and Slow Horror in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article examines M. R. Carey’s 2014 zombie apocalypse novel The Girl with All the Gifts through the ecofeminist concept of trans-corporeality as defined by Stacy Alaimo in Bodily Natures. Carey’s heroine Melanie ... -
Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay discusses images of the future in solarpunk and post-apocalyptic fiction, focusing on their distinct approach to the narratives of progress, science, and individualism. The dystopian perspective of post-apocalyptic ... -
Art (and) Criticism: Hart Crane and David Siqueiros
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article focuses on an analysis of Hart Crane’s essay “Note on the Paintings of David Siqueiros.” One of Crane’s few art-historical texts, the critical piece in question is first of all a tribute to the American poet’s ... -
Artist Collaboration and Unity in Times of Crisis: The Spirals Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The pandemic crisis of COVID-19 that we have recently endured, and that to some extent we are still experiencing, abruptly changed the way in which we conceive of the interaction between inner and outer space. Specifically, ... -
At the Margins of the World: The Nature of Limits in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
(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 ... -
Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century sensorial experiences changed at breakneck speed. Social and technological developments of modernity like the industrial revolution, rapid urban expansion, the ... -
Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines the Megg, Mogg and Owl stories of Simon Hanselmann, an Australian artist whose serialized comics both depict acts of contemporary roguery committed by a group of friends in an inner city sharehouse and ... -
Authority in Crisis? The Dynamic of the Relationship Between Prospero and Miranda in Appropriations of The Tempest
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The relationship between Prospero and Miranda is fairly typical for Shakespeare’s way of portraying parental authority and filial obligation. A strong and authoritative father, an absent mother and a (potentially) rebellious ... -
A Review of Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation, edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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“Being Human”: Edward Bond’s Theories of Drama
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The terms of Bond’s theory are Manichean (innocent-corrupt, autonomous-ideologized etc.). His arguments are based in the assumption that there is a fundamental “humanity” that exists prior to socialization. In fact, the ...