Przeglądaj Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture według tytułu
Wyświetlanie pozycji 21-40 z 335
-
“Being Human”: Edward Bond’s Theories of Drama
; Handley, Agata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)
The terms of Bond’s theory are Manichean (innocent-corrupt, autonomous-ideologized etc.). His arguments are based in the assumption that there is a fundamental “humanity” that exists prior to socialization. In fact, the ... -
Belonging and Longing: The Question of the Subject in Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)The philosophy of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion departs from the transcendental role of the subject. No longer is the subject regarded as its own foundation, nor does it own or constitute its objects. Instead, it ... -
Between Poetic Voice and Silence: Hart Crane, Yvor Winters, Metapoetics and Emily Dickinson’s Legacy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article is a comparative study of the ways in which two American modernist poets bound by a literary and human connection, Hart Crane and Yvor Winters, dealt with Emily Dickinson’s legacy in their own works. My study ... -
Beyond the Garden: On the Erotic in the Vision of the Middle English Pearl
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The Middle English Pearl is known for its mixture of genres, moods and various discourses. The textual journey the readers of the poem embark on is a long and demanding one, leading from elegiac lamentations and the erotic ... -
Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille. From the very ... -
Bianca Looks from above the Book: Readings on the Margin of Bruno Schulz’s Ex-Libris for Stanisław Weingarten
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The essay traces correspondences between the elements of the 1919 Pierrot ex-libris and the books from Weingarten’s collection which, with time, included and gave privileged position to the works of Bruno Schulz. Among the ... -
Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While—like all artistic forms—it allows for deviation from this standard rule, rap is heavily reliant on building blocks of sixteen bars and a refrain. In addition, rhyme plays a prominent role in structuring rap, which ... -
Blindness in the Beckettland of Malfunctioning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Many of Beckett characters suffer from different kinds of disabilities and impairments, this being one of the ways of punishing them for “the eternal sin of having been born.” The article discusses blindness in Waiting for ... -
Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the ... -
Boundaries and Otherness in Science Fiction: We Cannot Escape the Human Condition
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article explores the construction of boundaries, alterity and otherness in modern science-fiction (SF) films. Boundaries, understood as real state borders, territoriality and sovereignty, as well as the construction ... -
Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged. Even though the main concept of the series indicates that Supernatural ... -
Breaking the Promise of Perfection: Imperfect Utopias in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)In an era still plagued by popularized skepticism toward utopian thought, Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time remains a compelling exploration of potential futures. This essay juxtaposes anti-utopian critiques ... -
“Brought up to Live Double Lives”: Intelligence and Espionage as Literary and Philosophical Figures in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place and For All We Know
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-11-22)The article examines the figure of the spy—alongside themes related to espionage—as employed in two books by the Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson (1948–2019): the volume of poems For All We Know (2008) and the novel ... -
Building Liveable Futures: Dwelling as Collaborative Survival After Climate Change
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-11-28)Taking a cue from Tim Ingold’s post-humanist reflection on building and dwelling as more-than-human practices, the article aims to revisit dwelling as a strategy of “collaborative survival” (Tsing) in the context of the ... -
“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"
Handley, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
In 2003, Martin Rees referred to the present as “mankind’s final century.” A few years later, Slavoj Žižek wrote that humankind is heading towards “apocalyptic zero-point,” when the ecological crisis will most probably ... -
The Butterfly Effect: Creating and Recreating the Story of Madame Butterfly, on Paper and on Stage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-11-24)The consequences of the partially coerced opening of Japan to the Western world in the second half of the 19th century went far beyond economic and political goals and considerations. The previously secluded land almost ... -
“By [some] other means”: Talking (about) Racism and Race through Visual Arts in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric is a perplexing work of literature both because of its original presentation of the issue of racism in the US today and the original formal ways through which its message is ... -
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 ...