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Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, based at the University of Łódź, is an international and interdisciplinary journal, which seeks to engage in contemporary debates in the humanities by inviting contributions from literary and cultural studies intersecting with literary theory, gender studies, history, philosophy, and religion. The journal focuses on textual realities, but contributions related to art, music, film and media studies addressing the text are also invited. Submissions in English should relate to the key issues delineated in calls for articles which will be placed on the website in advance. The journal also features reviews of recently published books, and interviews with writers and scholars eminent in the areas addressed in Text Matters. Responses to the articles are more than welcome so as to make the journal a forum of lively academic debate which may also be extended to the internet forum. Though Text Matters derives its identity from a particular region, central Poland in its geographic position between western and eastern Europe, its intercontinental advisory board of associate editors and internationally renowned scholars makes it possible to connect diverse interpretative perspectives stemming from culturally specific locations.
Punktacja MNiSW: 70 pkt. (2019)
Punktacja MNiSW: 70 pkt. (2021)
Dyscyplina wg MNiSW: literaturoznawstwo; nauki o kulturze i religii
Editor-In-Chief:
Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź, Poland)
Advisory Board
Laurie Anderson Sathe (St. Catherine University, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Liam Gearon (University of Oxford, UK)
Jerzy Jarniewicz (University of Łódź, Poland)
Alison Jasper (University of Stirling, UK)
Jan Jędrzejewski (University of Ulster, UK)
Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge, UK)
Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia)
Rukmini Bhaya Nair (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Agnieszka Salska (University of Łódź, Poland)
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Andrzej Wicher (University of Łódź, Poland)
Managing Editor:
Agata Handley
Language Editor, MLA and other Adjustments
Tomasz Fisiak
Technical Editor
Karolina Goławska
Cover Design, Layout, Typesetting
Maciej Torz
Proofreading
Alex Ramon
Administration of the Website www: http://text-matters.net/
Krzysztof Majer
Nazwa wydawcy: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
ISSN: 2083-2931
eISSN: 2084–574X
Collections in this community
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Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 1/2011 [25]
Women and Authority / Word Image Sound Issue Reviewer Mirosława Buchholtz (Nicolaus Copernicus University) -
Text Matters: A journal of literature, theory and culture nr 2/2012 [21]
Marginalia / Marginality Issue Reviewer Wojciech Kalaga (University of Silesia)
Recent Submissions
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Wartime Propaganda and Gender in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Scorched Earth: A Dissident Reading
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) has been the subject of many aesthetic productions in contemporary Persian literature. The Iranian mass media during the war with Iraq described the armed conflict as holy and masculine, and ... -
Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)If late modern literary production is structured by any principles rendering order to the otherwise nebular character of the process, this is the idea of intertextuality that paves the way for the dissolution of well ... -
“Sardoodledom” on the English Stage: T. W. Robertson and the Assimilation of Well-Made Play into the English Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article discusses a vital figure in the development of modern English theatre, Thomas William Robertson, in the context of his borrowings, inspirations, translations and adaptations of the French dramatic formula pièce ... -
The Poetic Bliss of the Re-described Reality: Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Figurative Language
Holda, Malgorzata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
The article addresses the issue of the intimate but troublesome liaison between philosophy and literature—referred to in scholarship as “the ancient quarrel between poets and philosophers.” Its aim is double-fold. First, ... -
“By [some] other means”: Talking (about) Racism and Race through Visual Arts in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric is a perplexing work of literature both because of its original presentation of the issue of racism in the US today and the original formal ways through which its message is ... -
Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia
Fruzińska, Justyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose ... -
“Our Eyes Adjust to the Dark”: The Cosmic Sublime in Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The cosmic sublime, as the most spectacular manifestation of the natural sublime, offers rich stimuli for the literary imagination, as well as for various interactions between science, culture and art. In her book of poetry ... -
Between Poetic Voice and Silence: Hart Crane, Yvor Winters, Metapoetics and Emily Dickinson’s Legacy
Piechucka, Alicja (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
The article is a comparative study of the ways in which two American modernist poets bound by a literary and human connection, Hart Crane and Yvor Winters, dealt with Emily Dickinson’s legacy in their own works. My study ... -
Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)From the onset of the indefinite deferral of our previously taken-for-granted lives, an abundance of humorous online cartoons, jokes, memes, videos and other satirical material relating to the COVID-19 outbreak—and its ... -
Sensorial Aesthetics: Cross-Modal Stylistics in Modernist Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article argues that modernist fiction pointedly involves all our senses as part of its reaction to the project of modernity and progress, as well as to Victorian realism; it is not just a response to a heighted ... -
The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article is, firstly, an analysis of Kreia, a character from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords video game, a character whose role in the game is pivotal: the conversations the player has with ... -
The Consumptive Significance of Images and Interface Values in Cyberpunk Cities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Cyberpunk is one of the latest genres in the development of science fiction. The genre emerged during the 80s and 90s, and in it the characters are confronted by an abundance of images and interface values. As a result, ... -
Taking Horror as You Find It: From Found Manuscripts to Found Footage Aesthetics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)An authenticator of the story and a well-tested enhancer of immersion, the trope of the found manuscript has been a persistent presence in Gothic writing since the birth of the genre. The narrative frame offered by purported ... -
Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article analyzes how mainstream artists respond to the dynamics of online fan communities, developing complex metanarratives that interrelate their songs and music videos with their “personal” activity on social media. ... -
Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos
Fisiak, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
The following article is going to focus on a selection of music videos by Shakespears Sister, a British indie pop band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit, which rose to prominence in the late 1980s. This ... -
Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While—like all artistic forms—it allows for deviation from this standard rule, rap is heavily reliant on building blocks of sixteen bars and a refrain. In addition, rhyme plays a prominent role in structuring rap, which ... -
“No Direction Home”: The Life and Literature of Bob Dylan–From “Desolation Row” to the Nobel Prize
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Using the Nobel Prize as a prism through which to view the life and literature of a difficult-to-define artist, this article argues that Dylan’s output is one in which life and literature become, and have always been, ... -
In the Universe of Cassandra: The Ancient Topos of Clairvoyance in the Futuristic World of Minority Report (2002)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The figure of Cassandra is well-known from numerous representations in ancient and modern literature as an archetype of a woman who has the power to see the future, but whose visions are not believed. In ancient Greek ... -
Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s ... -
Cowboy Cops and Black Lives Matter: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Great White West[ern]
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The racial framework of Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri rests at the intersection of three persistent cultural myths—the Frontier Myth, the hero cowboy myth and the myth of white ...