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Wawel Meets Elsinore. The National and Universal Aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Wicher, Andrzej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)
The aim of this paper is to show the role, the possibilities and the limits of Wyspiański’s national thinking through Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Of particular importance, in this context, is the role the Ghost takes in Wyspiański’s ... -
Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Drawing on American Indian myths and folklore that previous scholarship has placed into direct relationship to the Anglo-European vampire narrative, and on recent U.S. mainstream commodifications of these myths, my paper ... -
What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma
Fisiak, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
In his pioneering study of Grande Dame Guignol (also referred to as hag horror or psycho-biddy), a female-centric 1960s subgenre of horror film, Peter Shelley explains that the grande dame, a stock character in this form ... -
“When China Meets China”: Sinéad Morrissey’s Figurations of the Orient, or the Function of Alterity in Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This article attempts to investigate the potential resonances between Paul Ricoeur’s and Julia Kristeva’s theories of otherness as applied to the study of poetry by the Northern-Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey. In all of her ... -
The Whittrick Play of No Nothing: Alan Spence, Edwin Morgan, and Indra’s Net
Kocot, Monika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)
The article will attempt a reading of Alan Spence’s play No Nothing (2015). Special attention will be given to the issue of literal and metaphorical space(s), a peculiar, liminal setting of the play, and the ways it ... -
Who Are You, Mrs Walter Shandy, Aberratio Naturae?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine the critically unacknowledged aspect of the canonical Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: the authorial delineation and narrative management of the character of Mrs Shandy, who is a ... -
A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s "The Songlines" Reconsidered
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)This article revisits, analyzes and critiques Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 bestseller, The Songlines, more than three decades after its publication. In Songlines, the book primarily responsible for his posthumous celebrity, Chatwin ... -
Woman and Authority in Ian McEwan’s “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” and Its Film Adaptation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The paper analyzes Ian McEwan’s short story “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” (published in 1975) and its film adaptation made in Poland by director Mariusz Grzegorzek in 1993. In many works McEwan shows women in more ... -
Women’s Power To Be Loud: The Authority of the Discourse and Authority of the Text in Mary Dorcey’s Irish Lesbian Poetic Manifesto “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey’s poem “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear,” included in the 1991 volume Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers. Apart from being a well-known and critically ... -
Writing About a Woman Writer’s Writing: On Gender Identification(s) and Being a Male Critic of Carol Shields’s Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)This essay takes as its starting point my experience as a male critic of Carol Shields’s work. Throughout the researching and writing of my PhD on Shields, I have noted with curiosity the surprise registered by many people ... -
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario
Piechucka, Alicja (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The article deals with the concept of femme fatale as presented in Gladys Huntington’s 1956 novel Madame Solario. The eponymous protagonist, Natalia Solario, displays several characteristics of this female archetype, ... -
“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual ... -
“You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s "Monster" as Rogue Cinema
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)Film is a powerful medium that can influence audience’s perceptions, values and ideals. As filmmaking evolved into a serious art form, it became a powerful tool for telling stories that require us to re-examine our ideology. ...