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    • “The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests 

      Małecka, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ...

    • Editorial 

      Filipczak, Dorota ORCID (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

    • Edward Said and the Margins 

      Thomas, Tom (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ...

    • Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History 

      Sharrad, Paul (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. ...

    • Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation 

      Filipczak, Dorota ORCID (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)

    • The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 1) 

      Lindfors, Bernth (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      The sons of famous men sometimes fail to succeed in life, particularly if they suffer parental neglect in their childhood and youth. Ira Daniel Aldridge is a case in point-a promising lad who in his formative years lacked ...

    • The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle 

      Beville, Maria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a ...

    • The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration 

      Kliś, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A. Bové’s consideration ...

    • Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors 

      Gilarek, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on theEdge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split ...

    • The Margins of the Rational Man: Fluid Identities in Eighteenth-Century Biography 

      Over, William (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      This study will explore the Enlightenment conception of the individual of reason, its attempted formulations in actor biographies, and its ultimate denial by the reality of human identity as multiple, fluid, and dialogical. ...

    • Reviews/Interviews 

      Sumera Adam; Pietrzak Wit; Kocot Monika; Faqir Fadia; Assif Maria; Ravvin Norman; Majer, Krzysztof ORCID (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź)

    • The Shortest Way to Modernity Is via the Margins: J.H. Prynne’s Later Poetry 

      Pietrzak, Wit (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      In the essay an attempt is made to investigate the processes of construction and reconstruction of meaning in the later books of the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne. It has been argued that his poetry disturbs the act of ...

    • “Throw[ing] the Longest Shadows”: The Significance of the Bogus Quotation for Arcadia by Jim Crace 

      Wojciechowska, Sylwia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      Preceding his Arcadia with a non-existing quotation, Jim Crace proves to be no Arcadian innocent: challenging the shrewdness of his readers, the contemporary novelist seems to take pleasure in inviting them to an intellectual ...

    • Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities 

      Rizzo, Alessandra (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed ...

    • Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories 

      Maszewska, Jadwiga (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
      In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ...