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Echoes of Rituals of Initiation and Blood Sacrifice in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Heart of Darkness, the protagonist Kurtz, of whom we do not, in fact, see much, is shown as connected with a native “sorcerer,” a “witch-man,” who had “antelope horns” on his head. Antelopes, or goats, are typical ... -
Ecotopia. Based on Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Adapted by Elizabeth Watson
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Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25) -
Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17) -
Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01) -
Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04) -
Editorial
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011) -
Editorial: Literature and Security
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Edward Said and the Margins
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ... -
Engaging the “Forbidden Texts” of Philosophy Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Alison Jasper
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“English with a Polish Accent and a Slight Touch of Irish”: Multilingualism in Polish Migrant Theatre
Prykowska-Michalak, Karolina
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)
Issues of migration writing (see Kosmalska) and migrant theatre have recently gained prominence, leading to an increase in research focused on analyzing the theatrical works of artists with a migrant background. This ... -
“Enlightenment Is a Shared Enterprise”: Tree Ecosystems and the Legacy of Modernity in Richard Powers’s The Overstory
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)In Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory (2018) the theme of the novel is the forest ecosystem, with a special emphasis placed on trees, upon whose developmental model the processes of (organic and industrial) ... -
Environmental Neocolonialism and the Quest for Social Justice in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The article addresses the problems of environmental degradation, as illustrated and explored in Imbolo Mbue’s recent novel How Beautiful We Were (2021), which juxtaposes the fictional oil company Pexton’s corporate greed ... -
Envisioning the Ecological Future: Three Perspectives off the Beaten Track
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)With few truly hopeful visions currently emerging from mainstream academia or from established science concerning humanity’s collective environmental outlook, it might be necessary to go off the beaten track in order to ... -
Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)This paper discusses translation practices from a historicist viewpoint, contextualizing them in their emerging “episode.” The latter is a concept drawn from sociology of literature and accounts for the rise of certain ... -
Erasing “Knowable Communities”: From Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Brassed Off
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper discusses cinematic representations of working class communities in British cinema from the pre-war documentary movement to (post-)Thatcher feature films chronicling the decline of traditional industries. A ... -
Eros and Pilgrimage in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts ... -
Eroticism and Justice: Harold Pinter’s Screenplay of Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article centres upon Pinter’s creative adaptation of McEwan’s deeply allusive and disquieting text probing, amongst others, the intricacies and tensions of gender relations and sexual intimacy. It examines the ... -
Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), ... -
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 ...