Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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Feminist Auto/biography as a Means of Empowering Women: A Case Study of Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar and Janet Frame’s Faces in the Water
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Feminism, as a political, social and cultural movement, pays much attention to the importance of text. Text is the carrier of important thoughts, truths, ideas. It becomes a means of empowering women, a support in their ... -
Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe’s award-winning memoir, of this earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (2006), invites readers into a warm subjective realm in which a meditative Wiebe (b. 1934) recounts his growing-up ... -
The Artist and Religion in the Contemporary World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Although we begin with the words of the poet Henry Vaughan, it is the visual artists above all who know and see the mystery of the Creation of all things in light, suffering for their art in its blinding, sacrificial ... -
Women’s Power To Be Loud: The Authority of the Discourse and Authority of the Text in Mary Dorcey’s Irish Lesbian Poetic Manifesto “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The following article aims to examine Mary Dorcey’s poem “Come Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear,” included in the 1991 volume Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers. Apart from being a well-known and critically ... -
The Poet’s “Caressive Sight:” Denise Levertov’s Transactions with Nature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The scientific consciousness which broke with the holistic perception of life is credited with “unweaving the rainbow,” or disenchanting the world. No longer perceived as sacred, the non-human world of plants and animals ... -
Inner Strength of Female Characters in Loitering with Intent and The Public Image by Muriel Spark
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Women characters in Muriel Spark’s novels are diverse, some strong and powerful, some weak and unable to make decisions. And there are characters who develop throughout the novel and learn from their own mistakes. From ... -
Woman and Authority in Ian McEwan’s “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” and Its Film Adaptation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The paper analyzes Ian McEwan’s short story “Conversation with a Cupboard Man” (published in 1975) and its film adaptation made in Poland by director Mariusz Grzegorzek in 1993. In many works McEwan shows women in more ... -
Let Rhoda Speak Again: Identity, Uncertainty, and Authority in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Performing a rereading of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 experimental modernist masterpiece of The Waves, in this article I focus on the elusive and conflicted character of Rhoda, whose significance has been either overlooked or ... -
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"Initium ut esset, creatus est homo": Iris Murdoch on Authority and Creativity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)In 1970 the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch published both her thirteenth novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, and her best known work of philosophy, The Sovereignty of Good. Given the proximity of these ... -
"Of all creatures women be best, / Cuius contrarium verum est": Gendered Power in Selected Late Medieval and Early Modern Texts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine images of the relationship between men and women in selected late medieval and early modern English texts. I will identify prevalent ideology of representation of women as well as typical ... -
Michèle Roberts: Female Genius and the Theology of an English Novelist
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Since Simone de Beauvoir published The Second Sex in 1949, feminist analysis has tended to assume that the conditions of male normativity—reducing woman to the merely excluded "Other" of man—holds true in the experience ... -
Who Are You, Mrs Walter Shandy, Aberratio Naturae?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The aim of this paper is to examine the critically unacknowledged aspect of the canonical Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: the authorial delineation and narrative management of the character of Mrs Shandy, who is a ... -
"Alternative Selves" and Authority in the Fiction of Jane Urquhart
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The article engages with "alternative selves," a concept found in The Stone Carvers by a Canadian writer, Jane Urquhart. Her fiction is first seen in the context of selected texts by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Laurence ... -
Michèle Le Doeuff's "Primal Scene": Prohibition and Confidence in the Education of a Woman
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)My essay begins with Michèle Le Doeuff's singular account of the "primal scene" in her own education as a woman, illustrating a universally significant point about the way(s) in which education can differ for men and women: ...