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“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In this paper I assess how Guy Vanderhaeghe’s early fiction criticizes the class-based and civil movements of post-1960s Saskatchewan through the recurring character of Ed. The protagonist of “Man Descending” and “Sam, ... -
“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 ... -
Sensing the Present: “Conceptual Art of the Senses”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)After Rachel E. Burke briefly introduces the essays presented with a focus on our contemporary relationship to modern subjectivity, Mieke Bal will make the case for the sense of presentness on an affective and sensuous ... -
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 ... -
Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did ... -
Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare—Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest—in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency ... -
Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The essay explores Paul Muldoon’s elegy for the fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson with a view to showing that “The Triumph” seeks to evoke a ground where political, cultural and religious polarities are destabilized. ... -
The Shortest Way to Modernity Is via the Margins: J.H. Prynne’s Later Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In the essay an attempt is made to investigate the processes of construction and reconstruction of meaning in the later books of the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne. It has been argued that his poetry disturbs the act of ... -
Silent Voices: Dwelling with our Specters through Palimpsesto (2017), by Doris Salcedo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)A palimpsest is a writing erased and replaced by another. Sometimes, perhaps all too often, our lives become incarnated palimpsests thanks to the prevailing biopolitics, which refers not only to the government of the living, ... -
”Soldier Dolls, Little Adulteresses, Poor Scapegoats, Betraying Sisters and Perfect Meat”: The Gender of the Early Phase of the Troubles and the Politics of Punishments against Women in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This paper examines the literary representation of the beginnings of the Northern Irish Troubles with regard to a gender variable (women’s roles and functions ascribed to them, mostly punitively, by men), in the selected ... -
Songs of America: A Review of John Berryman’s Public Vision by Philip Coleman (Dublin: UCD P, 2014)
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Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article explores the potential “healing” role performance art can have when representing disabling trauma, and engaging, as part of the creative process, participants who have experienced in their lives significant ... -
A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”
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Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This paper proposes a conversation between Charlotte Salomon (1917–43) and Edvard Munch that is premised on a reading of Charlotte Salomon’s monumental project of 784 paintings forming a single work Leben? oder Theater? ... -
“Stories of Making and Unmaking”: Deep Time and the Anthropocene in New Nature Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)New Nature Writing reflects many of the anxieties which are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Anthropocene, an era which necessitates temporal leaps between the present moment, the deep past, and the deep future. ... -
Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos
(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 ... -
A Study of Transgressed Boundaries in The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)This paper endeavours to delineate the gender dynamics and ethical quandaries arising from the repercussions of war and the decisions undertaken to preserve societal norms, as depicted in the 1988 science-fiction novel ... -
Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In this essay I will discuss Donna J. Haraway’s notion of sympoiesis and examine different modes of cohabitation or hybridization with nonhuman others. Such concepts as sympoiesis, or holobiont, question the notion of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ...