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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 ...
Engaging the “Forbidden Texts” of Philosophy Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Alison Jasper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)
Post-revisionism: Conflict (Ir)resolution and the Limits of Ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)
This essay considers a historical novel of recent times in revisionist terms, Kevin McCarthy’s debut novel of 2010, Peeler. In doing so, I also address the limitations that the novel exposes within Irish revisionism. I ...
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)
Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ...
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 ...
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), ...
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)
Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ...
“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 ...
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)
Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of ...
Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)
The decade after the attacks of 9/11 and the fall of the World Trade Center saw a proliferation of New York-themed literary anthologies from a wide range of publishers. With titles like Poetry After 9/11, Manhattan Sonnet, ...