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Taking Sides on Severed Heads: Kristeva at the Louvre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The theorist and philosopher Julia Kristeva is invited to curate an exhibition at the Louvre in Paris as part of a series-Parti Pris (Taking Sides)- and to turn this into a book, The Severed Head: Capital Visions. The ... -
“Taste good iny?”: Images of and from Australian Indigenous Literature Jared Thomas speaks with Teresa Podemska-Abt
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The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the ... -
Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)How can we, as individuals and as members of religious, educational, and/ or social institutions, more adequately respond to the crises of sexual abuse that have come to light in recent years? This paper will address this ... -
The Artist and Religion in the Contemporary World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Although we begin with the words of the poet Henry Vaughan, it is the visual artists above all who know and see the mystery of the Creation of all things in light, suffering for their art in its blinding, sacrificial ... -
The Hidden Gaze of the Other in Michael Haneke’s Hidden
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2001)
In his 2005 French production Hidden (Caché), Michael Haneke continues disturbing his audience with poignant and stirring images. When Georges and Anna Laurent keep finding on their doorstep videotapes showing the exterior ... -
The Poet’s “Caressive Sight:” Denise Levertov’s Transactions with Nature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The scientific consciousness which broke with the holistic perception of life is credited with “unweaving the rainbow,” or disenchanting the world. No longer perceived as sacred, the non-human world of plants and animals ... -
The Privilege to Write What You Want
Kosmalska, Joanna; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)
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The Use of Ulster Speech by Michael Longley and Tom Paulin
Kruczkowska, Joanna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
The article examines the application and exploration of Ulster dialects in the work of two poets of Northern Irish Protestant background, Tom Paulin and Michael Longley. It depicts Paulin’s attitude to the past and the ... -
Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)It was in the mid-twentieth century that the independent theatrical form based entirely on improvisation, known now as improvisational/improvised theatre, impro or improv, came into existence and took shape. Viola Spolin, ... -
Theatre as Contagion: Making Sense of Communication in Performative Arts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Contagion is more than an epidemiological fact. The medical usage of the term is no more and no less metaphorical than in the entire history of explanations of how beliefs circulate in social interactions. The circulation ... -
“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
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Thoreau and Spadina Dreamers Unite: Idealistic Communities in Canadian Publishing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The rise of Canadian national identity in the 1960s contributed to a flourishing small press movement across the country. One of the most impressive, long-standing and influential presses of this era was Coach House Press, ... -
Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s "Black Money"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)In his early career, Kenneth Millar, better known as Ross Macdonald, emulated the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. By the 1960s he had established himself as a distinct voice in the hardboiled genre. In his ... -
“Throw[ing] the Longest Shadows”: The Significance of the Bogus Quotation for Arcadia by Jim Crace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Preceding his Arcadia with a non-existing quotation, Jim Crace proves to be no Arcadian innocent: challenging the shrewdness of his readers, the contemporary novelist seems to take pleasure in inviting them to an intellectual ... -
thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In these paintings, visual and verbal languages provide us with different maps of the same territory; and Thurnauer’s hybridized representations argue that the world can only be rendered through a dialogue, an interlocution ... -
Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014)
Fisiak, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ŁódzkiegoCambridge UP, 2016-11-23)
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Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism. Their work produces an intertemporal ... -
Timothy Findley, His Biographers, and The Piano Man’s Daughter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)In this paper, Sherrill Grace, Findley’s biographer, will examine her biographical practices in the context of Findley’s own memoir, Inside Memory, and his interest in creating fictional auto/biographers and auto/biography ... -
To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This essay addresses the much discussed problem of archiving digital poetry. Digital media are labile, and several writers of digital poetry are incorporating the media’s ephemerality into their poetics. Rather than rehash ...