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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 ... -
Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Addressing trauma as a phenomenon which happens on the level of the human psyche and body, this article explores the impact of the interlocking nature of human lingual and bodily being in discovering a fuller possibility ... -
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’ ... -
Negotiating Interior Frontiers: Lara Haddad’s A Question of History (2015–16)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Bringing together insights originating in law studies and art analysis, this article approaches the work of the US-based Syrian artist Lara Haddad through the figuration of “interior frontiers,” exposing how both “interior ... -
Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”
(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 ... -
“Never Trust a Survivor”: Historical Trauma, Postmemory and the Armenian Genocide in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article focuses on Kurt Vonnegut’s lesser-known and underappreciated 1987 novel Bluebeard, which is analyzed and interpreted in the light of Marianne Hirsch’s seminal theory of postmemory. Even though it was published ... -
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 ... -
The New Sentence: June Jordan and the Politics of Parataxis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In the final part of the paper, I contrast the New Sentence parataxis with a more practical, more spontaneous (albeit more conventional) approach embodied by June Jordan. The paratactic structures of her writing remain ... -
New Versions of Roguery
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Nick Joaquin’s Cándido’s Apocalypse: Re-imagining the Gothic in a Postcolonial Philippines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this context, this paper explores the idea of the Gothic in Joaquin’s writing and how it relates to Joaquin being the “most original voice in postcolonial Philippine writing.” In 1972, the University of Queensland Press ... -
Nine Billion Branches: A Digital Poem by Jason Nelson—the Home of Objects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In his digital poem Nine Billion Branches, Jason Nelson explores various modes of belonging, which could be realized multifacetedly on corporeal, social, political, aesthetic and ecological levels. These locations range ... -
”No Country for Old Men”? The Question of George Moore’s Place in the Early Twentieth-Century Literature of Ireland
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The paper scrutinizes the literary output of George Moore with reference to the expectations of the new generation of Irish writers emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although George Moore is considered ... -
“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, ... -
Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper aims to present the main contours of Burns’s literary output which, interestingly enough, grows into a personal understanding of the collective mindset of (post)-Troubles Northern Ireland. It is legitimate, I ... -
"Of all creatures women be best, / Cuius contrarium verum est": Gendered Power in Selected Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine images of the relationship between men and women in selected late medieval and early modern English texts. I will identify prevalent ideology of representation of women as well as typical ... -
Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Imagining super rich women in the real and fictional world has long been a struggle. Those few depictions that do exist are scattered across time periods and literary genres, reflecting the legal restrictions that, at ... -
On (Not) Being Milton: Tony Harrison’s Liminal Voice
Handley, Agata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
The paper examines the relation between poetic identity, whose ongoing construction remains one of the most persistently reoccurring themes of Harrison’s work, and the liminal position occupied by the speaker of Harrison’s ... -
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ... -
“On the radio the pictures are better”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)