Przeglądaj Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich 2025, t. 68, nr 1 (149) według daty wydania
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Haunted Sketches: Analyzing the Foundations of Horror in Early Works by Tove Jansson and Walt Disney
Płuciennik, Jarosław
; Suvilehto, Pirjo (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article explores the early artistic influences and beginnings of Tove Jansson and Walt Disney, focusing on their works’ gothic and surreal elements. Both Jansson and Disney are renowned for their contributions to ... -
Zbrodnia w afekcie. Afektywny potencjał figury wampira-seryjnego mordercy w prozie Tadeusza Konwickiego
Piskorska, Jadwiga (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article analyzes the figure of the vampire-lust-murderer in the works of Tadeusz Konwicki, focusing on the novels Nic albo nic (1971) and Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (1984). The figure is set in the social and ... -
A Milestone in the Field of Dracula Studies: Elizabeth Miller and the Perception of History in Bram Stoker’s Vampire Novel
Crisan, Marius-Mircea (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This paper starts with a short overview of the critical reception of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and focuses its investigation on the role of the Canadian professor Elizabeth Russell Miller (16 February 1939 — 2 January ... -
Dracula Meets the Music Video
Fisiak, Tomasz (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The following article will attempt to establish an intertextual link between one of the seminal examples of Gothic literature, i.e., Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and the still relatively new medium of music video. To ... -
Wpływ anglojęzycznych tłumaczeń literatury grozy w 1990–1995 na kształtujące się po 1989 roku polskie realizacje gatunku
Mazurkiewicz, Adam (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article is devoted to the formation of a new horizon of expectations towards horror literature, which appeared on the literary market and was influenced by translations between the years 1989–1995. At the same time, ... -
"Weird fiction" a horror. Uwagi terminologiczno-genologiczne
Poniatyszyn, Kajetan (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The two complementary aims of this article are a terminological and genological analysis of weird fiction, as well as the identification of similarities and differences between this genre and horror in cognitive-aesthetic, ... -
Horror jako gatunek transmedialny — prolegomena
Zatora, Anna; Staszenko-Chojnacka, Dominika (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article is an introduction to the exploration of horror as a transmedia genre. Contemporary horror is growing in popularity and functions in various media: literature, film, video games, streaming platforms, comics, ... -
Przedwieczni z gwiezdnego płomienia. "Prawda" Stanisława Lema jako horror kosmiczny
Kukulak, Szymon Piotr (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The paper explores a case study of Stanisław Lem’s short story The Truth, initially published in 1964 (and not translated into English until 2021), which is among his lesser-known works and represents a notable gap in ... -
Co widzisz? "Profesor" Johna Katzenbacha jako horror psychologiczny. Kilka uwag
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)John Katzenbach’s novel — What comes next (2010) — does not seem to be a horror, because it tells a crime story: the kidnapping, imprisonment of a teenager, and the creation and sharing of an Internet series with the ... -
Postkolonialne lęki w nawiedzonym domu. Motywy traumy i poszukiwania tożsamości w horrorze dla młodzieży "Nakarmię cię strachem" Trang Thanh Tran
Braszka, Justyna (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The analysis presented in the article concerns the debut novel of young adult horror fiction entitled She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran. The interpretation of horror motifs in the novel is presented from the point of ... -
Rethinking Terror and Horror with Plato, Aristotle, and Shakespeare
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)This article addresses a blank spot in Gothic studies and in studies of ways in which literature purveys terror, horror, and fear. In the last decades, Gothic studies, including Jacek Mydla’s book, have broadened their ... -
Słowiańskie strachy we współczesnej polskiej literaturze fantastycznej
Siedlecka-Jamiołkowska, Paulina (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The article presents examples of the use of old Slavic beliefs by authors of contemporary Polish horror, including stories included in five anthologies published by Horror Masakra in 2016– 2023, in the unrelated Żertwa. ... -
Ideologia zza wrót piekieł. Polityczne znaczenie yōkai w filmach Kaneto Shindō — "Onibaba" (1964) i "Kuroneko" (1968)
Krauze, Maciej (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article examines Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968), two films by Kaneto Shindō that explore the destructive aftermath of war within the context of Japanese history and culture. Both films draw heavily on Japanese ... -
“I Hope This Hurts.” — Rhetorics of Rape in "Mouthwashing" Digital Game
Matlas, Katarzyna (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This paper examines how Mouthwashing (2024), an indie horror game, constructs a space where horror aesthetics and agency-related mechanics converge, allowing players to engage with sensitive social issues such as sexual ... -
Audialny wymiar grozy we wczesnej prozie Jakuba Małeckiego
Kurkiewicz, Marek (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
A horror story, a genre whose primary role is to instill fear in its audience, uses a variety of methods to achieve its goal. One of these is the skillful building of a mood using the acoustic plane. The following article ... -
Echoes of Evil: Haunted Houses and Lingering Terrors in "The Amityville Horror" and "The Conjuring"
Seltnerajch, Julia (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
Bruce F. Kawin defines horror by its recurring motifs and its primary goal: to frighten and unsettle the audience (4). Beyond its entertainment value, horror functions within a dynamic semiotic space, where spatial structures ... -
Observe, Dismember, Overcome: "Resident Evil 4" (2005; 2023) and "Dead Space" (2008; 2023) as Video Game Extensions of the Body Horror Subgenre
Baran, Paweł Michał (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
Body horror, which is very often defined as a cinematic subgenre (Cherry 2009, Weismann 2021), utilizes themes of mutation, infection etc. to play on resentment towards human form. Emerging prominently in the 1970s and ... -
Nawiedzony dom i widma faszyzmu: o "Tell Me I’m Worthless" Alison Rumfitt
Herman, Anouk (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article explores the motif of the haunted house in Alison Rumfitt’s "Tell Me I’m Worthless" and situates the novel among other works that employ the same trope, including Shirley Jackson’s "The Haunting of Hill House" ... -
Ciemna strona Selene. Horror przypominania, powtarzania i przepracowania w "Returnal"
Marcela, Mikołaj (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
"Returnal" tells the story of an astronaut Selene Vassos after she crash-lands on Atropos — an alien planet full of hostile creatures. At least it seems so. The game presents itself as a roguelike third-person shooter in ... -
Zombie as Victim in Film, TV Series, and Video Games
Bubnowska, Marta (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
The visual culture of the 21st century has reimagined the zombie. The zombie figure has started appearing in every corner of contemporary pop culture, particularly over the last two decades, captivating audiences with ...