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Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting ... -
Clark Coolidge’s The Land of All Time: An Affectively Restless Ecopoem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Clark Coolidge (1939–) is often connected with language poetry and the New York School. The language of his poetry is opaque and disjunctive, like that of the artists associated with the first group, but it is also energetic, ... -
Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)Narratives of the Anthropocene function in the realm of not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, the most popular narratives of the Anthropocene, namely the story of the apocalypse and the story of progress, ... -
Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Literary renditions of cities have always gravitated towards the spatial imagination and its ethical counterpart outside the textual space. This paper explores the multicultural geography of the North Indian city Allahabad ... -
The Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article seeks to analyze the portrayal of the Jews in two plays from the Chester mystery cycle: “Trial and Flagellation” and “The Passion.” The analysis acknowledges that the cycle is a mixture of, and a dialogue ... -
“Consider Yourself One of Us”: The Dickens Musical on Stage and Screen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Charles Dickens’s work has been taken and adapted for many different ends. Quite a lot of attention has been given to film and television versions of the novels, many of which are very distinguished. The stage and screen ... -
The Consumptive Significance of Images and Interface Values in Cyberpunk Cities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Cyberpunk is one of the latest genres in the development of science fiction. The genre emerged during the 80s and 90s, and in it the characters are confronted by an abundance of images and interface values. As a result, ... -
The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and ... -
Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead ... -
Cosmic Hunt, Copper Electroplating, Chaosmic Transduction: Chaosmotechnics of Molecular Collaboration in Matthew Barney’s Redoubt Project (2016–21)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The article considers Matthew Barney’s artistic project Redoubt (2016–21) from the point of view of Gilbert Simondon’s transductive philosophy of individuation. Informed by Simondon—read here with Félix Guattari, Gilles ... -
Cowboy Cops and Black Lives Matter: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Great White West[ern]
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The racial framework of Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri rests at the intersection of three persistent cultural myths—the Frontier Myth, the hero cowboy myth and the myth of white ... -
Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article ... -
The Cultural Role and Political Implications of Poland’s 1947 Shakespeare Festival
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Emerging from the atrocities of war, and still hoping to avert the results of the Yalta conference during which the countries of Central and South–Eastern Europe, including Poland, were “handed over” to Stalin, Poland’s ... -
A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child. The queen ... -
Dalí, Disney and Destino: Alchemy in Animation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Salvador Dalí claimed that he made his whole life “a work of alchemy.” He saw in alchemy the principle of metamorphosis and “the transmutation of bodies.” Carl Jung recognized “imaginatio” as the key to alchemy. As Patrick ... -
The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article is, firstly, an analysis of Kreia, a character from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords video game, a character whose role in the game is pivotal: the conversations the player has with ... -
Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about ... -
Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Making reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of ... -
Delimit / De-limit: Barbara Guest at Kandinsky’s Window
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)This essay reads Barbara Guest’s poem “The View from Kandinsky’s Window” from her 1989 collection Fair Realism alongside Wassily Kandinsky’s own theories of form and abstraction. It argues that Guest’s poetic reinvention ... -
“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Waged in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed over 20,000 lives according to human rights groups. The Duterte administration’s own count is significantly lower: around 6,000. The huge ...