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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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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
Mirowska, Paulina
(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
Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna (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 ... -
“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
Fisiak, Tomasz (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 ... -
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 ... -
From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth
Fruzińska, Justyna (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 ... -
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)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)