Przeglądaj Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 38-57 z 335
-
Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and the Language of Diversity in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Published in 1542, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s La relación is a chronicle of the Pánfilo de Narváez’s 1527 expedition to the New World in which Cabeza de Vaca was one of the four survivors. His account has received ... -
Camp and Pop: David Bowie, Oskar Schlemmer, Madonna and Janelle Monáe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While contemporary pop culture is nowadays considered part of the cultural mainstream, its practices of codification and its use and circulation of signifiers are still shaped by its roots in counterculture. This leads to ... -
Caryl Churchill’s Artificial and Orificial Bodies: Between Subjective and Non-Subjective Nobody’s Emotion or Affect
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This article analyzes the shift from emotion to affect in Caryl Churchill’s writing for the theatre, a process which becomes prominent in the later seventies and culminates in the production of A Mouthful of Birds, a project ... -
The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely ... -
Cathartic Paths of the Gothic in Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Gothic is employed in Joanna Bator’s novel Ciemno, prawie noc [Dark, Almost Night]. I frame my analysis on the author’s assertion that “Poland is a horror,” exploring firstly ... -
The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28) -
Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the ... -
Changing Notes in the Voices beyond the Rooster Coop: A Neo-Capitalist Coup in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger encapsulates the complexities of identity formation in a milieu effected by neo-capitalism. The novel, for many, is about a new identity made available to the hitherto marginalized in ... -
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 ... -
Cities and Their People: Dwelling in the Anthropic Time of N. K. Jemisin’s New York
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The article starts with Martin Heidegger’s 1951 essay “Bauen Wohnen Denken,” recently rethought by Jeff Malpas in his book Rethinking Dwelling from today’s perspective of urban and metropolitan dwelling. However, while ... -
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 ...