Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 12/2022 według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 17-31 z 31
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Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through ... -
Monet at a Glance: A Dynamic, Ekphrastic Encounter in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The essay analyzes Michèle Roberts’s 2012 story “On the Beach at Trouville” as an ekphrasis of Claude Monet’s early Impressionist painting, The Beach at Trouville. It first approaches the narrative though W. J. T. Mitchell’s ... -
Museum Project: 14 Henrietta St. Museum, Paula Meehan, Dragana Jurišić and the Irish Housing Crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The aim of the article is to compare three (re)creative activities within one interdisciplinary project: a public space (14 Henrietta St. Museum in Dublin), poetry (Paula Meehan’s cycle of sonnets in Museum of 2019) and ... -
Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, and often wandering and wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many of Jarman’s stories—stories that are marked not ... -
The Nature of Irrevocability: Anthropocene Nostalgia in Hayley Eichenbaum’s Photography Series The Mother Road
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The recent acknowledgement of the Anthropocene, resulting from the increasingly visible human-induced effects on the biosphere, has ultimately obliterated the nature/culture division (Latour; Chakrabarty), prompting ... -
Nec Tecum Nec Sine Te: The Inseparability of Word and Image in Virginia Woolf
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)This article explores the interaction of verbal and visual art in Virginia Woolf’s fiction, exemplified by her novel, To the Lighthouse. The narrative of the novel not only features scenes of the painting of the Ramsays’ ... -
“The Only Way Out Is In”: Transcending Modernity and Embracing Interconnectedness in Gary Snyder and Kenneth White
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)It seems that in order to overcome the current ecological crisis we need a new (global?) narrative. If the narrative of “progress” that has functioned as one of the Western cultural myths is linked to the notions of modernity ... -
“The Paradise of How It Has to Be”: Writing About the Future of the Earth in a Time of Decline. A Conversation with William deBuys
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Past Conditional Subjectivities: Enacting Relationships with the Non-Human in the Work of Ana Mendieta
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Inspired by what literary scholar Lisa Lowe calls “the past conditional temporality”—or the “what could have been”—this paper examines how the work of 20th-century Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta challenges ... -
“Productivity of Constraint”: Wit Pietrzak in Conversation with Philip Terry
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Prophesying the End of Human Time: Eco-Anxiety and Regress in J. G. Ballard’s Short Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Despite being written half a century before the term “eco-anxiety” (Gifford and Gifford) was coined, J. G. Ballard’s disaster fictions can be read in the context of the social psychodynamics of climate change. My aim in ... -
Robustness and Vulnerability: Caring for the Earth in an Age of Loss
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“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)New Nature Writing reflects many of the anxieties which are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Anthropocene, an era which necessitates temporal leaps between the present moment, the deep past, and the deep future. ... -
Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In this essay I will discuss Donna J. Haraway’s notion of sympoiesis and examine different modes of cohabitation or hybridization with nonhuman others. Such concepts as sympoiesis, or holobiont, question the notion of the ... -
Winter’s Tales
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)