Browsing Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture by Title
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Pinteresque Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The expression “Pinteresque” describing the characteristic features of Harold Pinter’s artistic output, established its position as a literary critical denominator many years ago. The aim of this article is to analyze some ... -
The Poetic Bliss of the Re-described Reality: Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Figurative Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article addresses the issue of the intimate but troublesome liaison between philosophy and literature—referred to in scholarship as “the ancient quarrel between poets and philosophers.” Its aim is double-fold. First, ... -
Poetry, Environment and the Possibility of Future. A Review of Sam Solnick’s "Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry" (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017)
Pietrzak, Wit
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
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Pornography Debate, Gaze and Spectatorship in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels has been described as a voice in the debate on pornography, expressing the anti-pornography position as opposed to the liberal feminist stance in this debate. Despite its ideological clarity ... -
Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I ... -
Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a ... -
Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)While it has been omitted by numerous critics in their otherwise comprehensive readings of Yeats’s oeuvre, “Beautiful Lofty Things” has been placed among the mythical poems, partly in accordance with Yeats’s own intention; ... -
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
Majer, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ... -
Recessive Action in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn accompanies Eilis Lacey, a native of Enniscorthy, Ireland of the 1950s on a reluctant voyage across the Atlantic. Her passage reconstructs a common experience of immigration and exile to ... -
Representing Absence: Contemporary Ekphrasis in “Apesh-t”
Handley, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)
Traditionally, ekphrasis has been defined as the description and analysis of works of art in poetry, and so it has been understood as the verbalization of visual images (Sager Eidt). The article examines the concept in the ... -
Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This article is an edited version of the response paper offered at the conclusion of the symposium, Modern Sensibilities. It ties together themes from the symposium papers, as well as ideas prompted by Mieke Bal’s exhibition, ... -
Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis
Tardi, Mark (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
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A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Fordham UP, 2013)
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Review of The Body, ed. by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow
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Reviews/Interviews
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Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) -
“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s "The Glorious Heresies" (2015) and "The Blood Miracles" (2017)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut The Glorious Heresies (2015) and its continuation The Blood Miracles ... -
The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s "The Sisters Brothers"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores Eli Sisters as a reinvigorated rogue who finds his artistic calling in Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, published in 2011. With the help of insights from narratology and genre theory, the article ... -
Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This paper examines self-fashioning in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything,” a story about a Sarajevo teenager’s journey through ex-Yugoslavia to the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. His aim? “[T]o buy a freezer chest for my ... -
“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, ...