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Reviews/Interviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź)
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Edward Said and the Margins
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ...
Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ...
The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A. Bové’s consideration ...
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 ...
“The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ...
The Margins of the Rational Man: Fluid Identities in Eighteenth-Century Biography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
This study will explore the Enlightenment conception of the individual of reason, its attempted formulations in actor biographies, and its ultimate denial by the reality of human identity as multiple, fluid, and dialogical. ...
Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article ...