Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, based at the University of Łódź, is an international and interdisciplinary journal, which seeks to engage in contemporary debates in the humanities by inviting contributions from literary and cultural studies intersecting with literary theory, gender studies, history, philosophy and religion.
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Current Issue: Number 10 (2020) Literature Goes Pop / Literar(t)y Matters
Article
L’homme agissant and Self-understanding: Pamela Sue Anderson on Capability and Vulnerability
Małgorzata Hołda
Made to Connive: Revisioning Cinderella in a Music Video. From Disney to Arthur Pirozkhov: A Case Study
Dorota Filipczak
Cowboy Cops and Black Lives Matter: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and the Great White West[ern]
Debbie Olson
Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Fiona Darroch
In the Universe of Cassandra: The Ancient Topos of Clairvoyance in the Futuristic World of Minority Report (2002)
Małgorzata Budzowska
“No Direction Home”: The Life and Literature of Bob Dylan–From “Desolation Row” to the Nobel Prize
Liam Gearon
Billy Woods’s Literary Intertexts
Jožef Kolarič
Metanarratives and Storytelling in Contemporary Mainstream Popular Music: Romeo and Juliet in the Making of the Star Persona
Eduardo Viñuela
The Consumptive Significance of Images and Interface Values in Cyberpunk Cities
Hossein Mohseni and Kian Soheil
The Death of Language: Listening to the Echoes (of Georges Bataille) in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—The Sith Lords
Marcin Hanuszkiewicz
Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus
Christine Nicholls
Between Poetic Voice and Silence: Hart Crane, Yvor Winters, Metapoetics and Emily Dickinson’s Legacy
Alicja Piechucka
“By [some] other means”: Talking (about) Racism and Race through Visual Arts in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric
Jerzy Kamionowski
Frances Wright’s America: A 19th-Century Utopia
Justyna Fruzińska
The Poetic Bliss of the Re-described Reality: Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Figurative Language
Małgorzata Hołda
Systemic Intertextuality. A Morphogenetic Perspective
Tomasz Burzyński
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief: Dorota Filipczak (University of Lodz)
