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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 ... -
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 ... -
”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, ... -
"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”
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On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with a focus on textual manifestations of the figure of the trickster. The theme of shape-shifting and transformation that one usually associates with tricksters is ... -
One, Mad Hornpipe: Dance as a Tool of Subversion in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
The plot of Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney oscillates around the theme of perception, blindness and eye-sight recovery. Although visually impaired, the eponymous character is a self-reliant and independent person who is very ... -
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 ... -
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery ... -
“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 ... -
The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s "Scorpio Rising" and Steven Spielberg’s "Duel"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The paper analyzes the ways in which Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963) and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971) draw on and challenge selected road movie conventions by adhering to the genre’s traditional reliance on cultural ... -
Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Virginia Foster Durr was born in 1903 in Birmingham, Alabama in a former planter class family, and in spite of the gradual decline in the family fortune, she was brought up as a traditional southern belle, utterly subjected ... -
The Paramount Role of Translation in Modern Opera Productions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Opera is undoubtedly a particularly high and traditional genre of art, but recently there have been numerous attempts at breaking this stereotype and presenting opera in a contemporary light. The most popular way of achieving ...