Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture: Ostatnio dodane
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Bianca Looks from above the Book: Readings on the Margin of Bruno Schulz’s Ex-Libris for Stanisław Weingarten
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The essay traces correspondences between the elements of the 1919 Pierrot ex-libris and the books from Weingarten’s collection which, with time, included and gave privileged position to the works of Bruno Schulz. Among the ... -
The Shortest Way to Modernity Is via the Margins: J.H. Prynne’s Later Poetry
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)In the essay an attempt is made to investigate the processes of construction and reconstruction of meaning in the later books of the Cambridge poet J.H. Prynne. It has been argued that his poetry disturbs the act of ... -
The Marginality of the Gothic: A Reconsideration
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Viewing the Gothic as a notion shaped to a certain extent by the critic, this article investigates-and reconsiders-the persistence of the Gothic margin in contemporary critical discourse. Following Paul A. Bové’s consideration ... -
The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a ... -
At the Margins of the World: The Nature of Limits in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) is an anti-war film which can be read as an Orphic narrative meditating on the relationship between humans and “nature.” Many scholarly readings of the film have been attracted ... -
“The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have ... -
Crossing the Borders of Language and Culture: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)The aim of the paper is to compare four versions of the text of Waitingfor Godot: the French original, Beckett’s own translation into English and two Polish renderings done by Julian Rogoziński and Antoni Libera. The article ... -
Krzysztof Zanussi Revisited A Conversation
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The Margins of the Rational Man: Fluid Identities in Eighteenth-Century Biography
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-12-04)This study will explore the Enlightenment conception of the individual of reason, its attempted formulations in actor biographies, and its ultimate denial by the reality of human identity as multiple, fluid, and dialogical. ... -
Editorial
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Engaging the “Forbidden Texts” of Philosophy Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Alison Jasper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011) -
Review of The Body, ed. by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011) -
New Media Effects on Traditional News Sources: A Review of the State of American Newspapers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The New Media are having dramatic effects on all parts of American culture and on all types of Old Media, but newspapers seem to be suffering the most. Basically, the internet is taking away newspaper readers, lowering the ... -
Tributes to Professor Andrzej Kopcewicz
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“Taste good iny?”: Images of and from Australian Indigenous Literature Jared Thomas speaks with Teresa Podemska-Abt
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011) -
Dichotomous Images in McEwan’s Saturday: In Pursuit of Objective Balance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)Saturday sets out to depict the contemporary world with its ambiguities and paradox. In the novel, like in a mirror painting, every event, character and conflict is highlighted from diverse, often contradictory, angles by ... -
One, Mad Hornpipe: Dance as a Tool of Subversion in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The plot of Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney oscillates around the theme of perception, blindness and eye-sight recovery. Although visually impaired, the eponymous character is a self-reliant and independent person who is very ... -
The Use of Ulster Speech by Michael Longley and Tom Paulin
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)The article examines the application and exploration of Ulster dialects in the work of two poets of Northern Irish Protestant background, Tom Paulin and Michael Longley. It depicts Paulin’s attitude to the past and the ... -
The Hidden Gaze of the Other in Michael Haneke’s Hidden
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2001)
In his 2005 French production Hidden (Caché), Michael Haneke continues disturbing his audience with poignant and stirring images. When Georges and Anna Laurent keep finding on their doorstep videotapes showing the exterior ... -
Writing About a Woman Writer’s Writing: On Gender Identification(s) and Being a Male Critic of Carol Shields’s Work
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2011)This essay takes as its starting point my experience as a male critic of Carol Shields’s work. Throughout the researching and writing of my PhD on Shields, I have noted with curiosity the surprise registered by many people ...