Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, based at the University of Lodz, 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. Text Matters was founded and developed by Professor Dorota Filipczak (1963-2021).
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Institute of English Studies,
University of Lodz,
ul. Pomorska 171/173,
90–236 Lodz,
Poland,
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Current Issue: Number 11 (2021) Literature and Security / Bodies, Traumas, Transgressions / Pop Cultural Encounters
Article
Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam
Alison Jasper
Editorial: Literature and Security
Liam Francis Gearon
Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
Ryszard Bartnik
“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
Vincent Pacheco and Jeremy De Chavez
Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Minu Susan Koshy
Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
Anna Reglińska-Jemioł
Aligning with Sociopaths: Character Engagement Strategies in Highsmith’s and Minghella’s Talented Mr. Ripleys
Lech Zdunkiewicz
From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
Magdalena Cieślak
Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
Nurten Birlik
Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Eckert
“Never Trust a Survivor”: Historical Trauma, Postmemory and the Armenian Genocide in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
Alicja Piechucka
“My Monster Self”: Violence and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder
Nahid Fakhrshafaie and Alireza Bahremand
Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
Małgorzata Hołda
Tragic Victims of Mania a Potu (“Madness from Drink”): A Study of Literary Nineteenth-Century Female Drunkards
Irina Rabinovich
The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink
Chhandita Das and Priyanka Tripathi
Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces
Mir Mohammad Khademnabi
Editors
- Past Editor-in-Chief: Dorota Filipczak (1963–2021), University of Lodz
- Current Chief Editors: Agata Handley, University of Lodz; Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz
- Guest Editor: Liam Francis Gearon, University of Oxford
