Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this article is to revisit the work of the French philosopher Julia Kristeva and ask what place we might give her conceptual framework today. I will focus on one key aspect of Kristeva’s work, sexual difference, ... -
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The aim of this study is to develop from Kristeva’s account of time and semiotics the conditions of possibility for a new approach to interpreting the Bible. This will be set against the background of feminist biblical ... -
Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a ... -
“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)The author of the paper analyzes John Milton’s great epic narrative through the lenses of Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical reflection, in particular the second chapter of the philosopher’s last ... -
Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)How can we, as individuals and as members of religious, educational, and/ or social institutions, more adequately respond to the crises of sexual abuse that have come to light in recent years? This paper will address this ... -
Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014-11-25)In this contribution to Text Matters, I would like to introduce gender into my feminist response to Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology of the capable subject. The aim is to make, phenomenologically speaking, “visible” ... -
A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”
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Editorial
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“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
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“On the radio the pictures are better”
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Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi (New Delhi: Gnosis, 2011)
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Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
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A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
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The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Ira Daniel’s story is not just a case study of a failed father-son relationship. It also presents us with an example of the hardships faced by migrants who move from one society to another in which they must struggle to ... -
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous ... -
Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the ... -
Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article attempts to address the issue of nudity and eroticism in stage and screen versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Elizabethan theatrical conventions and moral and political censorship of the English Renaissance did ... -
Eroticism and Justice: Harold Pinter’s Screenplay of Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article centres upon Pinter’s creative adaptation of McEwan’s deeply allusive and disquieting text probing, amongst others, the intricacies and tensions of gender relations and sexual intimacy. It examines the ... -
Pornography Debate, Gaze and Spectatorship in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Masterpieces by Sarah Daniels has been described as a voice in the debate on pornography, expressing the anti-pornography position as opposed to the liberal feminist stance in this debate. Despite its ideological clarity ... -
Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), ...