• International Language Poetry: Radical Poetics in Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski 

  Cieślak-Sokołowski, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  The article discusses two linguistic poetry projects—that of the American poet Charles Bernstein and that of the Polish poet Andrzej Sosnowski. The main focus is on those poems by both poets which draw inspiration from the ...

• The Disnarrated and Denarrated in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh 

  Pirnajmuddin, Hossein; Mousavi, Maryamossadat (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  Drawing on the notions of “disnarration” (telling what did/does not occur) and “denarration” (cancelling or negating what has occurred) as theorized by, respectively, Gerald Prince and Brian Richardson, this paper examines ...

• Unearthly Nature: The Strangeness of Arbospaces in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders 

  Pigoń, Zofia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  Commonly acknowledged as one of Thomas Hardy’s most environmentally-conscious literary accomplishments, The Woodlanders (1887) provides fertile ground for a stimulating and topical ecocritical debate. The intricate correlation ...

• A Study of Transgressed Boundaries in The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper 

  Wiśniewska, Ewa (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  This paper endeavours to delineate the gender dynamics and ethical quandaries arising from the repercussions of war and the decisions undertaken to preserve societal norms, as depicted in the 1988 science-fiction novel ...

• Voices of the Dead: Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse and the Horror Genre 

  Morawiec, Maciej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  This article examines the 2019 film The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers, which follows the descent into madness of two 19th-century lighthouse keepers as they become stranded on a desolate New England island and ...

• From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos 

  Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  Through their multi-dimensional artistic performances—manifesting in music, lyrics and videos—the South African rap-rave hip-hop duo Die Antwoord expresses the ethos of “Zef,” a white working-class Afrikaner post-apartheid ...

• “I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window”: The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of (Be)longing 

  Hołda, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  The article addresses the nuanced but also profoundly enticing and challenging reality of belonging evoked in painting. I examine three artworks by artists of different times and styles—John Everett Millais, Johannes ...

• “If I Could but See a Day of it”: On the Aesthetic Potential for Belonging and Action 

  Goldsmith, Adam J. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  This essay argues that the potential freedom revealed within aesthetic experiences of beauty can encourage a utopian form of belonging that could help materially realize this potential. Drawing upon Immanuel Kant and ...

• Silent Voices: Dwelling with our Specters through Palimpsesto (2017), by Doris Salcedo 

  Gutiérrez Cajaraville, Carlos; Calonge Conde, Ana (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  A palimpsest is a writing erased and replaced by another. Sometimes, perhaps all too often, our lives become incarnated palimpsests thanks to the prevailing biopolitics, which refers not only to the government of the living, ...

• The Meaning of Animals in the First Farm Revolts: From Kostomarov’s Ukraine to Reymont’s Poland at the Turn of the 20th Century 

  Aiello, Thomas (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm, a critique of Cold War totalitarianism wherein animals acquire human speech, walk on two legs, and ultimately oppress themselves once gaining power. Its concern for the lived ...

• The Regional Impersonal as a Mode of Dwelling: Structures of Embodiment in David Jones’s The Anathémata and Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts 

  Kotesovska, Lucie (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  The discussion of dwelling in this article focuses on T. S. Eliot’s controversial axiom of poetic impersonality as articulated in The Sacred Wood (1920) and practiced in The Waste Land (1922), and on how this axiom is ...

• Imagination and Dwelling in The House that Jack Built 

  Drapało, Kamila (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  This article employs a phenomenological and hermeneutic lens to examine the themes of dwelling, creative imagination, and the interplay between ethics and aesthetics within Lars von Trier’s film, The House that Jack Built. ...

• Longing to Belong in One’s Own Homeland: Tracing the Topophilic Cartography in Anita Sethi’s I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain 

  Dalal, Sanghamitra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  In this article I will read I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) by Anita Sethi, the Manchester-born woman of colour, to explore how journeying through natural landscapes can be perceived as an ...

• Nine Billion Branches: A Digital Poem by Jason Nelson—the Home of Objects 

  Ostalska, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  In his digital poem Nine Billion Branches, Jason Nelson explores various modes of belonging, which could be realized multifacetedly on corporeal, social, political, aesthetic and ecological levels. These locations range ...

• Radiant Futures: Utopian Art as a Phenomenology of Home-Seeking 

  Huston, Jordan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  This essay examines the imaginative potential of utopian art. Utopian art is more than a representation of a possible future, it calls upon our imaginations to pull us into the act of home-coming itself. Following Heidegger, ...

• Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change 

  Chaberski, Mateusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  Taking a cue from Tim Ingold’s post-humanist reflection on building and dwelling as more-than-human practices, the article aims to revisit dwelling as a strategy of “collaborative survival” (Tsing) in the context of the ...

• Breaking the Promise of Perfection: Imperfect Utopias in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time 

  Poll, Elise (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  In an era still plagued by popularized skepticism toward utopian thought, Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time remains a compelling exploration of potential futures. This essay juxtaposes anti-utopian critiques ...

• Dwelling in the Urban Liminal: A Phenomenological Consideration of Saul Leiter’s Street Photography 

  Roy, Satarupa Sinha (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  In this essay, I present a phenomenological exploration of the “urban liminal” in the context of Saul Leiter’s street photography. In gauging the possibilities of dwelling in the urban liminal, this essay brings into ...

• How to Dwell in Garbage Patches? Waste Communities in the Aftermath of Ancestral Catastrophe in Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011) 

  Borowski, Mateusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  The article approaches the problem of dwelling in areas affected by environmental crises through the lens of two speculative fabulations. Chen Qiufan’s The Waste Tide (2013) and Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes ...

• Cities and Their People: Dwelling in the Anthropic Time of N. K. Jemisin’s New York 

  Sugiera, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)

  The article starts with Martin Heidegger’s 1951 essay “Bauen Wohnen Denken,” recently rethought by Jeff Malpas in his book Rethinking Dwelling from today’s perspective of urban and metropolitan dwelling. However, while ...

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