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Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The decade after the attacks of 9/11 and the fall of the World Trade Center saw a proliferation of New York-themed literary anthologies from a wide range of publishers. With titles like Poetry After 9/11, Manhattan Sonnet, ... -
Thoreau and Spadina Dreamers Unite: Idealistic Communities in Canadian Publishing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The rise of Canadian national identity in the 1960s contributed to a flourishing small press movement across the country. One of the most impressive, long-standing and influential presses of this era was Coach House Press, ... -
A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in ... -
The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The paper attempts to consider the problem of W. H. Auden’s political engagement in the 1930s in the context of his (in)famous decision to leave England and settle down in the USA. The transatlantic journey of the eponymous ... -
The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting ... -
Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting ... -
Going to America to See the Fens Better? Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article analyzes the changes introduced in the adaptation, including the shift of the contemporary action from Greenwich, England to the American city of Pittsburgh. The way of connecting the present with the past by ... -
“An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”: Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Carl Jung paid a short visit to Taos, New Mexico, in January 1925. A brief account of his stay at the Pueblo appeared in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffe in 1963. Remembering his conversations with ... -
In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Some people live to work, others work to live, while still others prefer to live lives of leisure. Since the Puritans, American culture and literature have been dominated by individuals who have valued hard work. However, ... -
thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In these paintings, visual and verbal languages provide us with different maps of the same territory; and Thurnauer’s hybridized representations argue that the world can only be rendered through a dialogue, an interlocution ... -
Editorial
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To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This essay addresses the much discussed problem of archiving digital poetry. Digital media are labile, and several writers of digital poetry are incorporating the media’s ephemerality into their poetics. Rather than rehash ... -
The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and ... -
Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery
Bartczak, Kacper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the ... -
From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth
Fruzińska, Justyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America. Taking into account the well-documented ... -
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
Majer, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ... -
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article deals with the concept of femme fatale as presented in Gladys Huntington’s 1956 novel Madame Solario. The eponymous protagonist, Natalia Solario, displays several characteristics of this female archetype, ... -
Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation
Filipczak, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The article engages with the video installation Madame B by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. The work was premiered in the city of Łódź in Poland (between 6 Dec. 2013 and 9 Feb. 2014). The author makes use of the ...