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Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
Filipczak, Dorota
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)
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“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs
Filipczak, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
The article engages with the protagonist of The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1984 as The Wild Girl. Filipczak discusses scholarly publications that analyze the role of Mary Magdalene, ... -
Let Rhoda Speak Again: Identity, Uncertainty, and Authority in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Myk, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
Performing a rereading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental modernist masterpiece of The Waves, in this article I focus on the elusive and conflicted character of Rhoda, whose significance has been either overlooked or ... -
Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s "Concrete Island"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the way in which surrealist techniques and assumptions underpin spatial representations in Ballard’s Concrete Island. With much of Ballard’s fiction using spatiality as an ideologically charged ... -
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 ... -
Literature That Saves: Matilda as a Reader of Great Expectations in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article reflects on the therapeutic and ethical potential of literature, the theme which is often marginalized and overlooked by literary critics, in the novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Matilda, the main character of ... -
Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, “visible” ... -
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 1)
(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 Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ... -
The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Though largely unknown today, “Ned Buntline” (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) was one of the most influential authors of 19th-century America. He published over 170 novels, edited multiple popular and political publications, ... -
L’homme agissant and Self-understanding: Pamela Sue Anderson on Capability and Vulnerability
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article addresses Pamela Sue Anderson’s philosophy of capability and vulnerability as an important contribution to the advancement of today’s feminist ethics. Following Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of l’homme capable, ... -
The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle
(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 ... -
Made to Connive: Revisioning Cinderella in a Music Video. From Disney to Arthur Pirozkhov: A Case Study
Filipczak, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
The article focuses on the way in which music videos can subvert and refigure the message of literature and film. The author sets out to demonstrate how a music video entitled “Зацепила” by Arthur Pirozkhov (Aleksandr ... -
Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011)
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The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration
(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
(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
(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. ... -
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above. For example, ...