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Between Gazing and Witnessing: Feminism and Watching Women Suffer on Television
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The present article discusses ethical aspects of the representations of (sexual) violence and (predominantly women’s) suffering in two recent television series, The Handmaid’s Tale and Dietland. It reflects on the uses and ... -
“Hollywood is no place for idealists”: Hollywood as Dystopia in Cinema and Fiction
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in particular, where glamour is a utopian façade for both literal and figurative corruption, where the lifespan of an actress ... -
Feminist Transgressions and Critical Dys-u-topian Drama: Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Referring to the discussion on the critical potential of dystopias in fiction, the article examines twentieth century feminist plays by Ann Jellicoe, Bryony Lavery and Germaine Greer for their presentation and critical ... -
“She Cuppeth the Lightning in her Hand”: Spirituality, Domination, and Violence in The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The Power by Naomi Alderman offers a dystopian vision of the world in which girls and women develop the ability to produce electric current. The power is both a blessing and a curse since it enables women to stand up to ... -
Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood’s Variation on the Panopticon in The Heart Goes Last
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)In her dystopian dark comedy The Heart Goes Last (2015), Margaret Atwood openly refers to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon. The future world depicted in her novel is filled with violence and deprived of both human ... -
The Body Discourse and Dystopian Identity Narratives of Women with Turner Syndrome
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The aim of the article is to compare and contrast dystopian discourse with the first-person life narratives told by females with a rare genetic disorder, Turner syndrome (TS). Employing the methodology of discourse analysis, ... -
Fact and Fiction in a Robotic Society from a Feminist Perspective
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)A new narrative of care for the elderly is being constructed in both fiction and our techno-societies that incorporates the use of robots in areas traditionally entrusted to women, reproducing some of the stereotypes ... -
Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)The cyborg as a metaphor for cultural encodings of the interaction between humans and technology has been an accepted trope since the publication of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina ... -
More Liveable” Speculations: the Gender of SF in Margaret Atwood’s Short Story “Oursonette” and in the Comic Book / Graphic Novel War Bears
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)Taking into account the broadness of the SF genre, the article commences with examining the difference between speculative fiction and science fiction, as outlined specifically by Donna J. Haraway and Margaret Atwood. ... -
Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods as a Feminist Cyborg Story
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020)
Jeanette Winterson’s 2007 novel The Stone Gods is an admonitory tale about human environmental irresponsibility: in a highly gendered narrative the novelist demonstrates how the patriarchal domination inherent in human ... -
Nikola Danišová, Mariana Čechová, Prolegomena k pramotívu premeny (Prolegomena do pramotywu przemiany), Verbum Praha, 2019
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Speculative Genre: The Gendered Dimension of Contemporary Utopia/Dystopia
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Katarzyna Szopa, Poetyka rozkwitania. Różnica płciowa w filozofii Luce Irigaray, Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, seria Lupa Obscura, Warszawa, 2018
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Matka odchodzi Tadeusza Różewicza jako asamblaż narracyjny
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This work is an attempt at reading Tadeusz Różewicz’s book entitled Mother Departs from the perspective of literary genetics. A literary genre has been treated as a factor in the interpretation, which could influence the ... -
Niobe w oku kamery. Projekt filmowy — między konkretyzacją a scenopisem
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Niobe, a poem by Gałczyński was interpreted with verse and musical references, in the context of Mediterranean culture and contemporary realities of the palace of Nieborów, where a copy of the Ancient sculpture is located. ... -
A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Paratext: Horace Walpole’s Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Based on an analysis of two Prefaces to Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. A Gothic Story, the paper offers a cognitive poetics view of paratext, a literary device defined by Genette as “a threshold of interpretation”. ... -
“Making Kin in Broken Places”. Post-apocalyptic Adolescence and Care in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)This article attempts to place Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Borne (2017) in the context of the New Weird, and more broadly within the tradition of speculative fiction represented by the Weird and the Gothic. The aim of this is ... -
Obcowanie z obcymi. O ludzko-obcych hybrydach w Wojnie światów Herberta George’a Wellsa i Drakuli Brama Stokera
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)Berhard Waldenfels claimed that at the turn of 18th and 19th century “the alien explicitly and definitely penetrated the heart of the reason and the heart of the one’s own” in Western culture. Since then we no longer live ... -
Multimodalność w literackich narracjach zombiecentrycznych
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article focuses on the analysis of the concept of multimodality in the context of zombie-centric stories. The article attempts to indicate the variety of narrative techniques in works a priori perceived as belonging ... -
Spiritual inclinations in post-pandemic travel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-10-17)The detrimental impact of the COVID-19 on the world has ensued unrest amongst people. The reverberations of the life-threatening virus are conspicuous in all realms of life culminating in physical and psychological ...