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“Reread me backwards”: Deciphering the Past in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
Set during the midst of the London Blitz, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day revolves
around a narrative of espionage, but unlike many novels from the spy genre, it refuses to
disclose all of its secrets. Instead, the ...
A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Fugard’s My Children! My Africa!
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
This essay presents a sociosemiotic analysis of My Children! My Africa! (1989) by Athol
Fugard. By considering the characters’ views about self, community, education, and time, it
points to the Fugard’s anxious attempt ...
Communality and the Individual in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
The subject of the article is the analysis of the notion of communality in the relation between
the two protagonists of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Traversing the post-apocalyptic
landscape populated mostly by wretched ...
Shakespeare’s Exceptional Violence: Reading Titus Andronicus with Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
In this paper I explore the multifaceted relationship between violence, speech and power in
the most graphic of Shakespeare’s plays, Titus Andronicus. I take my cue from Hannah
Arendt’s reflections on violence as opposed ...
Ambiguous Bodies, Biopower and the Ideologies of Science Fiction
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
Contemporary Hollywood film narrates the fear of monstrous science; attending to the
modulations of medicine, capital and the body. The filmic body is employed to illustrate the
power of the new biotechnologies to create ...
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 ...
Secularism and Its Discontents: The Moor’s Last Sigh and Riot
(Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź, 2016)
The recurrent theme of dropping frontiers in a world which has become increasingly
heterogeneous but intolerant is the leitmotif of Sashi Tharoor’s Riot and Salman Rushdie’s The
Moor’s Last Sigh. The figure of the Moor ...