Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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The Conflicting Traditions of Portraying the Jewish People in the Chester Mystery Cycle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The article seeks to analyze the portrayal of the Jews in two plays from the Chester mystery cycle: “Trial and Flagellation” and “The Passion.” The analysis acknowledges that the cycle is a mixture of, and a dialogue ... -
”The Heart of this People is in its right place”: The American Press and Private Charity in the United States during the Irish Famine
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 led to ineffable suffering that sent shockwaves throughout the Anglosphere. The Irish Famine is deemed to be the first national calamity to attract extensive help and support ... -
Death of the Soldier and Immortality of War in Frank Ormsby’s A Northern Spring
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)The paper analyzes the collection of the Northern Irish poet Frank Ormsby entitled A Northern Spring published in 1986. On the basis of selected poems, the author of this paper aims to examine the poet’s reflections about ... -
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 ... -
Defying Maintenance Mimesis: The Case of Somewhere over the Balcony by Charabanc Theatre Company
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-10-29)Making reference to Luce Irigaray’s definitions of mimesis and mimicry, and the ways in which these concepts respectively reinforce and challenge the phallogocentric order, this article investigates the representation of ... -
”Soldier Dolls, Little Adulteresses, Poor Scapegoats, Betraying Sisters and Perfect Meat”: The Gender of the Early Phase of the Troubles and the Politics of Punishments against Women in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)This paper examines the literary representation of the beginnings of the Northern Irish Troubles with regard to a gender variable (women’s roles and functions ascribed to them, mostly punitively, by men), in the selected ... -
Michael Longley and Birds
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The following essay attempts to shed some light on Michael Longley’s poems about birds, which form a fairly complicated network of mutual enhancements and cross-references. Some of them are purely descriptive lyrics. Such ... -
Recessive Action in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel Brooklyn accompanies Eilis Lacey, a native of Enniscorthy, Ireland of the 1950s on a reluctant voyage across the Atlantic. Her passage reconstructs a common experience of immigration and exile to ... -
Masculinities, History and Cultural Space: Queer Emancipative Thought in Jamie O’Neill’s at Swim, Two Boys
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)At Swim, Two Boys, a 2001 novel by Jamie O’Neill, tells a story of gay teen romance in the wake of the Easter Rising. This paper considers the ways in which the characters engage in patterns of masculine behaviour in a ... -
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 ... -
”No Country for Old Men”? The Question of George Moore’s Place in the Early Twentieth-Century Literature of Ireland
(Sciendo, 2018-10-29)The paper scrutinizes the literary output of George Moore with reference to the expectations of the new generation of Irish writers emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although George Moore is considered ... -
Pinteresque Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The expression “Pinteresque” describing the characteristic features of Harold Pinter’s artistic output, established its position as a literary critical denominator many years ago. The aim of this article is to analyze some ... -
Literature That Saves: Matilda as a Reader of Great Expectations in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article reflects on the therapeutic and ethical potential of literature, the theme which is often marginalized and overlooked by literary critics, in the novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. Matilda, the main character of ... -
Éowyn and the Biblical Tradition of a Warrior Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article discusses the portrayal of Éowyn in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the light of the biblical tradition of the warrior woman. The author focuses on the scene in which Éowyn slays the Nazgûl Lord in the battle ... -
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 ... -
Mimesis in Crisis: Narration and Diegesis in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre and Drama
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The main objective of my article is to investigate the ways in which contemporary Anglophone drama and theatre actively employ diegetic and narrative forms, setting them in conflict with the mimetic action. The mode of ... -
Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)In the course of a career that spans half a century, from the Vietnam era to the America of Barack Obama, Sam Shepard has often been labelled as a “quintessentially American” playwright. According to Leslie Wade, “[d]rawing ... -
“Consider Yourself One of Us”: The Dickens Musical on Stage and Screen
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Charles Dickens’s work has been taken and adapted for many different ends. Quite a lot of attention has been given to film and television versions of the novels, many of which are very distinguished. The stage and screen ... -
Drama is for Life! Recreational Drama Activities for the Elderly in the UK
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Applied Theatre is an inclusive term used to host a variety of powerful, community-based participatory processes and educational practices. Historically, Applied Theatre practices include Theatre-in-Education (TiE), ... -
The Paramount Role of Translation in Modern Opera Productions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Opera is undoubtedly a particularly high and traditional genre of art, but recently there have been numerous attempts at breaking this stereotype and presenting opera in a contemporary light. The most popular way of achieving ...