Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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Theatre as Contagion: Making Sense of Communication in Performative Arts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Contagion is more than an epidemiological fact. The medical usage of the term is no more and no less metaphorical than in the entire history of explanations of how beliefs circulate in social interactions. The circulation ... -
“Being Human”: Edward Bond’s Theories of Drama
; Handley, Agata
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)
The terms of Bond’s theory are Manichean (innocent-corrupt, autonomous-ideologized etc.). His arguments are based in the assumption that there is a fundamental “humanity” that exists prior to socialization. In fact, the ... -
Authority in Crisis? The Dynamic of the Relationship Between Prospero and Miranda in Appropriations of The Tempest
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The relationship between Prospero and Miranda is fairly typical for Shakespeare’s way of portraying parental authority and filial obligation. A strong and authoritative father, an absent mother and a (potentially) rebellious ... -
The Cultural Role and Political Implications of Poland’s 1947 Shakespeare Festival
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Emerging from the atrocities of war, and still hoping to avert the results of the Yalta conference during which the countries of Central and South–Eastern Europe, including Poland, were “handed over” to Stalin, Poland’s ... -
Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The article investigates the canonical plays of William Shakespeare—Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest—in an attempt to determine the nature of Shakespeare’s position on the early modern tendency ... -
Wawel Meets Elsinore. The National and Universal Aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)The aim of this paper is to show the role, the possibilities and the limits of Wyspiański’s national thinking through Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Of particular importance, in this context, is the role the Ghost takes in Wyspiański’s ... -
Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism. Their work produces an intertemporal ... -
Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This article is an edited version of the response paper offered at the conclusion of the symposium, Modern Sensibilities. It ties together themes from the symposium papers, as well as ideas prompted by Mieke Bal’s exhibition, ... -
Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century sensorial experiences changed at breakneck speed. Social and technological developments of modernity like the industrial revolution, rapid urban expansion, the ... -
Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)This paper proposes a conversation between Charlotte Salomon (1917–43) and Edvard Munch that is premised on a reading of Charlotte Salomon’s monumental project of 784 paintings forming a single work Leben? oder Theater? ... -
Flaubert’s Provocation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Madame Bovary, which was scandalous in its own day for its focus on the adultery of a provincial woman, has had a strange, complex fate. Flaubert remade the image of the novelist, as pure artist, for whom style was all ... -
Imagining Hedda Gabler: Munch and Ibsen on Art and Modern Life
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)Among Edvard Munch’s many portraits of Henrik Ibsen, the famous Norwegian dramatist and Munch’s senior by a generation, one stands out. Large in scope and with a characteristic pallet of roughly hewed gray blue, green and ... -
Sensing the Present: “Conceptual Art of the Senses”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017-10-25)After Rachel E. Burke briefly introduces the essays presented with a focus on our contemporary relationship to modern subjectivity, Mieke Bal will make the case for the sense of presentness on an affective and sensuous ... -
Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ŁódzkiegoCambridge UP, 2016-11-23) -
On (Not) Being Milton: Tony Harrison’s Liminal Voice
Handley, Agata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)
The paper examines the relation between poetic identity, whose ongoing construction remains one of the most persistently reoccurring themes of Harrison’s work, and the liminal position occupied by the speaker of Harrison’s ... -
Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk ... -
Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. ... -
In the Flesh and the Gothic Pharmacology of Everyday Life; or Into and Out of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)One of the key questions facing Gothic Studies today is that of its migration into and out of its once familiar generic or symbolic modes of representation. The BBC series In the Flesh addresses these concerns against the ... -
Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests ...