Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 11/2021: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Terror narratives have been characterized by a dialogism where the “normative” I—i.e. the “non-threatening mainstream”—defines and delineates subjects whose identity is centred on their (actual or presumed) location in the ... -
Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article discusses the evolving image of female characters in the Mad Max saga directed by George Miller, focusing on Furiosa’s rebellion in the last film—Mad Max: Fury Road. Interestingly, studying Miller’s post-apocalyptic ... -
“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Waged in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed over 20,000 lives according to human rights groups. The Duterte administration’s own count is significantly lower: around 6,000. The huge ... -
Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper aims to present the main contours of Burns’s literary output which, interestingly enough, grows into a personal understanding of the collective mindset of (post)-Troubles Northern Ireland. It is legitimate, I ... -
Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. ... -
“Brought up to Live Double Lives”: Intelligence and Espionage as Literary and Philosophical Figures in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place and For All We Know
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines the figure of the spy—alongside themes related to espionage—as employed in two books by the Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson (1948–2019): the volume of poems For All We Know (2008) and the novel ... -
Editorial: Literature and Security
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Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)