Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Recent submissions
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Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the ... -
Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting ... -
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys Huntington’s Madame Solario
(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, ... -
The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006). Shifting ... -
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)Before Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2009 production A Serious Man, Jewish motifs have consistently appeared in their cinematic output. However, the Jewish characters functioned in an ethnically diverse setting and rarely took ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015-11-17)The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and ... -
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 ... -
Editorial
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Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)Although Sir Samuel Ferguson is generally recognized as one of the key figures of mid-nineteenth-century Irish literature, there has been no major edition of his poems since 1916, as a result of which his work tends to be ... -
Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
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The Privilege to Write What You Want
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Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)While it has been omitted by numerous critics in their otherwise comprehensive readings of Yeats’s oeuvre, “Beautiful Lofty Things” has been placed among the mythical poems, partly in accordance with Yeats’s own intention; ... -
A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Fordham UP, 2013)
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A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child. The queen ... -
Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead ... -
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 ... -
Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The article applies selected concepts from the writings of Julia Kristeva to the analysis of a novel by Doris Lessing entitled The Cleft. Published in 2007, The Cleft depicts the origin of sexual difference in the human ... -
“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 ...