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Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)From the onset of the indefinite deferral of our previously taken-for-granted lives, an abundance of humorous online cartoons, jokes, memes, videos and other satirical material relating to the COVID-19 outbreak—and its ... -
The Consumptive Significance of Images and Interface Values in Cyberpunk Cities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Cyberpunk is one of the latest genres in the development of science fiction. The genre emerged during the 80s and 90s, and in it the characters are confronted by an abundance of images and interface values. As a result, ... -
Cowboy Cops and Black Lives Matter: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Great White West[ern]
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The racial framework of Martin McDonagh’s 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri rests at the intersection of three persistent cultural myths—the Frontier Myth, the hero cowboy myth and the myth of white ... -
Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article analyzes how mainstream artists respond to the dynamics of online fan communities, developing complex metanarratives that interrelate their songs and music videos with their “personal” activity on social media. ... -
L’homme agissant and Self-understanding: Pamela Sue Anderson on Capability and Vulnerability
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article addresses Pamela Sue Anderson’s philosophy of capability and vulnerability as an important contribution to the advancement of today’s feminist ethics. Following Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of l’homme capable, ... -
Camp and Pop: David Bowie, Oskar Schlemmer, Madonna and Janelle Monáe
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While contemporary pop culture is nowadays considered part of the cultural mainstream, its practices of codification and its use and circulation of signifiers are still shaped by its roots in counterculture. This leads to ... -
Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)If late modern literary production is structured by any principles rendering order to the otherwise nebular character of the process, this is the idea of intertextuality that paves the way for the dissolution of well ... -
The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords"
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article is, firstly, an analysis of Kreia, a character from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords video game, a character whose role in the game is pivotal: the conversations the player has with ... -
Wartime Propaganda and Gender in Ahmad Mahmoud’s The Scorched Earth: A Dissident Reading
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) has been the subject of many aesthetic productions in contemporary Persian literature. The Iranian mass media during the war with Iraq described the armed conflict as holy and masculine, and ... -
Representing Absence: Contemporary Ekphrasis in “Apesh-t”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Traditionally, ekphrasis has been defined as the description and analysis of works of art in poetry, and so it has been understood as the verbalization of visual images (Sager Eidt). The article examines the concept in the ... -
“By [some] other means”: Talking (about) Racism and Race through Visual Arts in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric is a perplexing work of literature both because of its original presentation of the issue of racism in the US today and the original formal ways through which its message is ... -
Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Frances Wright, a British social reformer and feminist, published an account of her American travels: Views of Society and Manners in America in 1821. Wright founded an experimental community in Nashoba, Tennessee, whose ... -
Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)While—like all artistic forms—it allows for deviation from this standard rule, rap is heavily reliant on building blocks of sixteen bars and a refrain. In addition, rhyme plays a prominent role in structuring rap, which ... -
In the Universe of Cassandra: The Ancient Topos of Clairvoyance in the Futuristic World of Minority Report (2002)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The figure of Cassandra is well-known from numerous representations in ancient and modern literature as an archetype of a woman who has the power to see the future, but whose visions are not believed. In ancient Greek ... -
Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s ... -
“Our Eyes Adjust to the Dark”: The Cosmic Sublime in Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The cosmic sublime, as the most spectacular manifestation of the natural sublime, offers rich stimuli for the literary imagination, as well as for various interactions between science, culture and art. In her book of poetry ... -
Dalí, Disney and Destino: Alchemy in Animation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Salvador Dalí claimed that he made his whole life “a work of alchemy.” He saw in alchemy the principle of metamorphosis and “the transmutation of bodies.” Carl Jung recognized “imaginatio” as the key to alchemy. As Patrick ... -
“Sardoodledom” on the English Stage: T. W. Robertson and the Assimilation of Well-Made Play into the English Theatre
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)The article discusses a vital figure in the development of modern English theatre, Thomas William Robertson, in the context of his borrowings, inspirations, translations and adaptations of the French dramatic formula pièce ... -
“No Direction Home”: The Life and Literature of Bob Dylan–From “Desolation Row” to the Nobel Prize
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)Using the Nobel Prize as a prism through which to view the life and literature of a difficult-to-define artist, this article argues that Dylan’s output is one in which life and literature become, and have always been, ... -
Sensorial Aesthetics: Cross-Modal Stylistics in Modernist Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-24)This article argues that modernist fiction pointedly involves all our senses as part of its reaction to the project of modernity and progress, as well as to Victorian realism; it is not just a response to a heighted ...