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Eroticism in the “Cold Climate” of Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Closely based on the dramatist’s personal experience, Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City offers a commentary on the life of the Protestant working class in the capital of Northern Ireland in the 1980s from a ... -
Eroticism—Politics—Identity: The Case of Richard III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Richard III’s courtship of Lady Anne in William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a blend of courtly speech and sexual extravaganza. His sexual energy and power of seduction were invented by Shakespeare to enhance the ... -
The Extremities of Literature: Traumatic Memory in Two Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)Drawing on Michel Foucault’s description of literature as being from the outside, Catherine Malabou explains that only literature can give us access to the inconceivable space occupied by traumatic experiences. How a ... -
“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The author of the paper analyzes John Milton’s great epic narrative through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical reflection, in particular the second chapter of the philosopher’s last ... -
Éowyn and the Biblical Tradition of a Warrior Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article discusses the portrayal of Éowyn in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the light of the biblical tradition of the warrior woman. The author focuses on the scene in which Éowyn slays the Nazgûl Lord in the battle ... -
Feminist Auto/biography as a Means of Empowering Women: A Case Study of Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar and Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Feminism, as a political, social and cultural movement, pays much attention to the importance of text. Text is the carrier of important thoughts, truths, ideas. It becomes a means of empowering women, a support in their ... -
Firing up the Anthropocene: Conflagration, Representation and Temporality in Modern Australia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The European colonization of Australia introduced a new population into a continent in which Indigenous people had practiced cyclic burning as a form of ecosystem maintenance since time immemorial. The settlers’ complete ... -
The First Constitutional Government of the Minnesota Anishinaabeg
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In this paper I trace the development of Native American constitutionalism in the early twentieth century. Specifically, I focus on the first constitutional government of the White Earth Nation, located in northwestern ... -
Flaubert’s Provocation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all ... -
Framing Madame B: Quotation and Indistinction in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article engages with the video installation Madame B by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. The work was premiered in the city of Łódź in Poland (between 6 Dec. 2013 and 9 Feb. 2014). The author makes use of the ... -
Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose ... -
From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America. Taking into account the well-documented ... -
From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)Since their first screen appearances in the 1930s, zombies have enjoyed immense cinematic popularity. Defined by Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as mindless, violent, decaying and infectious, they successfully ... -
A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of ... -
Going to America to See the Fens Better? Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article analyzes the changes introduced in the adaptation, including the shift of the contemporary action from Greenwich, England to the American city of Pittsburgh. The way of connecting the present with the past by ... -
A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in ... -
Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
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The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgiveness and justice in The Tragedy of King Lear. In my reading I employ Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological reflection on the ... -
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, ...