Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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Eroticism in the “Cold Climate” of Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Closely based on the dramatist’s personal experience, Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City offers a commentary on the life of the Protestant working class in the capital of Northern Ireland in the 1980s from a ... -
In a World Characterized by Transience and Doomed to Extinction Some Old Women Still Need Love —Mrs Rooney from Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The article analyzes the world of transience, deterioration and death characteristic of Boghill, the place of action of Samuel Beckett’s short radio play-All That Fall. In a broadcast drama, existence is equivalent to being ... -
“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)This article investigates the erotic and youthful body in John Fletcher’s play The Faithful Shepherdess, written for The Children of the Queen’s Revels c.1607. For many early modern scholastic, medical, and conduct manual ... -
Eroticism—Politics—Identity: The Case of Richard III
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Richard III’s courtship of Lady Anne in William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a blend of courtly speech and sexual extravaganza. His sexual energy and power of seduction were invented by Shakespeare to enhance the ... -
“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings. They are especially visible ... -
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong. What makes them conspicuous is no doubt the intensity of ... -
Eros and Pilgrimage in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts ... -
Beyond the Garden: On the Erotic in the Vision of the Middle English Pearl
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)The Middle English Pearl is known for its mixture of genres, moods and various discourses. The textual journey the readers of the poem embark on is a long and demanding one, leading from elegiac lamentations and the erotic ... -
Editorial
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Reviews/Interviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Absent Fathers, Outsider Perspectives and Yiddish Typewriters - Norman Ravvin (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź) -
Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed ... -
Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s La Goutte d’or
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille. From the very ... -
Changing Notes in the Voices beyond the Rooster Coop: A Neo-Capitalist Coup in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger encapsulates the complexities of identity formation in a milieu effected by neo-capitalism. The novel, for many, is about a new identity made available to the hitherto marginalized in ... -
Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short ... -
Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on theEdge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. Both texts split ... -
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 1)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The sons of famous men sometimes fail to succeed in life, particularly if they suffer parental neglect in their childhood and youth. Ira Daniel Aldridge is a case in point-a promising lad who in his formative years lacked ... -
Annie Proulx’s Imaginative Leap: Constructing Gay Masculinity in “Brokeback Mountain”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Non-heterosexual men have long existed on the social and cultural margins. Gay and bisexual male characters in literature, too, have done so for many generations. This essay explores the construction of gay masculinity in ... -
Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. ... -
“Throw[ing] the Longest Shadows”: The Significance of the Bogus Quotation for Arcadia by Jim Crace
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Preceding his Arcadia with a non-existing quotation, Jim Crace proves to be no Arcadian innocent: challenging the shrewdness of his readers, the contemporary novelist seems to take pleasure in inviting them to an intellectual ... -
Edward Said and the Margins
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of ...