Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article explores the way American author Cormac McCarthy uses the Gothic genre in his novel The Road as a means to address what has been called “our globalized order,” in particular the way it has turned human beings ... -
“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention. This article finds ... -
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, ... -
Nick Joaquin’s Cándido’s Apocalypse: Re-imagining the Gothic in a Postcolonial Philippines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this context, this paper explores the idea of the Gothic in Joaquin’s writing and how it relates to Joaquin being the “most original voice in postcolonial Philippine writing.” In 1972, the University of Queensland Press ... -
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 ... -
Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered ... -
Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation ... -
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above. For example, ... -
The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions ... -
Gothic Matters: Introduction
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A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in ... -
Going to America to See the Fens Better? Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article analyzes the changes introduced in the adaptation, including the shift of the contemporary action from Greenwich, England to the American city of Pittsburgh. The way of connecting the present with the past by ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”: Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Carl Jung paid a short visit to Taos, New Mexico, in January 1925. A brief account of his stay at the Pueblo appeared in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, edited by Aniela Jaffe in 1963. Remembering his conversations with ... -
In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American Independent Cinema Counterculture
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Some people live to work, others work to live, while still others prefer to live lives of leisure. Since the Puritans, American culture and literature have been dominated by individuals who have valued hard work. However, ... -
The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The paper attempts to consider the problem of W. H. Auden’s political engagement in the 1930s in the context of his (in)famous decision to leave England and settle down in the USA. The transatlantic journey of the eponymous ... -
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 ...