Browsing Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture by Title
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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, ... -
Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)At Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a ... -
Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe’s award-winning memoir, of this earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006), invites readers into a warm subjective realm in which a meditative Wiebe (b. 1934) recounts his growing-up ... -
Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)What happens once the rogue rides off into the sunset? This cross-genre essay considers the figure of the rogue’s decline and gradual dismemberment in the face of the pressures of the world. Beginning with the “rogue” ... -
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. ... -
Mexican Village: Josefina Niggli’s Border Crossing Narrative
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper presents Josefina Niggli (1910–83), an American mid-twentieth-century writer who was born and grew up in Mexico, and her novel Mexican Village (1945). A connoisseur of Mexican culture and tradition, and at the ... -
Michael Longley and Birds
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such ... -
Michèle Le Doeuff's "Primal Scene": Prohibition and Confidence in the Education of a Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)My essay begins with Michèle Le Doeuff's singular account of the "primal scene" in her own education as a woman, illustrating a universally significant point about the way(s) in which education can differ for men and women: ... -
Michèle Roberts: Female Genius and the Theology of an English Novelist
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Since Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex in 1949, feminist analysis has tended to assume that the conditions of male normativity—reducing woman to the merely excluded "Other" of man—holds true in the experience ... -
Mimesis in Crisis: Narration and Diegesis in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre and Drama
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The main objective of my article is to investigate the ways in which contemporary Anglophone drama and theatre actively employ diegetic and narrative forms, setting them in conflict with the mimetic action. The mode of ... -
The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body
Łowczanin, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions ... -
“The Most Photographed Barn in America”: Simulacra of the Sublime in American Art and Photography
; Handley, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The photographers who collect at the Moulton Barn are themselves consciously working within this tradition, and turning themselves into do-it-yourself “artist-seers.” They are the creators, not the slaves of the simulacrum. -
Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”
Mirowska, Paulina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)
In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing ... -
New Media Effects on Traditional News Sources: A Review of the State of American Newspapers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The New Media are having dramatic effects on all parts of American culture and on all types of Old Media, but newspapers seem to be suffering the most. Basically, the internet is taking away newspaper readers, lowering the ...