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International Language Poetry: Radical Poetics in Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article discusses two linguistic poetry projects—that of the American poet Charles Bernstein and that of the Polish poet Andrzej Sosnowski. The main focus is on those poems by both poets which draw inspiration from the ... -
Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. ... -
Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk ... -
Introduction
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Introduction
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IT’S ABOUT TIME: Trying an Essay Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This essay is about the essay, a form (as Adorno called it) of thought alive that is partial in the two senses of the word: subjective and fragmented. Thinking as social, performative, and always un-finished; as dialogic. ... -
“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention. This article finds ... -
Joe Brainard’s "I Remember", Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Paul Ricoeur declares that “being-entangled in stories” is an inherent property of the human condition. He introduces the notion of narrative identity—a form of identity constructed on the basis of a self-constructed ... -
Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s ... -
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
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Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem. That is, a better ... -
“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)The article engages with the protagonist of The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Michèle Roberts, first published in 1984 as The Wild Girl. Filipczak discusses scholarly publications that analyze the role of Mary Magdalene, ... -
Let Rhoda Speak Again: Identity, Uncertainty, and Authority in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Performing a rereading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental modernist masterpiece of The Waves, in this article I focus on the elusive and conflicted character of Rhoda, whose significance has been either overlooked or ... -
Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s "Concrete Island"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article explores the way in which surrealist techniques and assumptions underpin spatial representations in Ballard’s Concrete Island. With much of Ballard’s fiction using spatiality as an ideologically charged ... -
The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting ... -
Literature That Saves: Matilda as a Reader of Great Expectations in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article reflects on the therapeutic and ethical potential of literature, the theme which is often marginalized and overlooked by literary critics, in the novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Matilda, the main character of ... -
Longing to Belong in One’s Own Homeland: Tracing the Topophilic Cartography in Anita Sethi’s I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In this article I will read I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (2021) by Anita Sethi, the Manchester-born woman of colour, to explore how journeying through natural landscapes can be perceived as an ... -
“Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future”: Writing About the Long Descent, Practicing Green Wizardry. A Conversation with John Michael Greer
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)