Number 9 (2019) Roguery & (Sub)Versions
From the introduction: "This number of Text Matters features papers which explore the changing nature of roguery in literature and film. While the figure of the rogue has earned much literary attention in the past, its present moment is ambiguous, uneasy, even as we live in an age of flagrantly outrageous rogues, so overt that perhaps roguery as a study or a subject is outre because the world is a collection of rogues, and the behavior of rogues is now dramatically public rather than a matter of covert and shameful conduct. Despite this development, rogues still compel attention, curiosity and stories. Note the glut of documentaries, films and books on thieves and criminals, our fascination with those who refuse to follow the rules. And that continuing interest serves as a useful critical measurement and kinesics."
Article
A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered
Christine Nicholls
New Versions of Roguery
Aritha van Herk and Vanja Polić
“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction
Jordan Bolay
The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance
Mark Metzler Sawin
Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes
Kit Dobson
“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs
Dorota Filipczak
Joe Brainard’s I Remember, Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity
Wojciech Drąg
“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies (2015) and The Blood Miracles (2017)
Katarzyna Ostalska
Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s Black Money
Lech Zdunkiewicz
“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s Diary of the Last Man
Agata Handley
Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island
Marcin Tereszewski
Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Virilian Perspective
Hossein Pirnajmuddin and Bahareh Bagherzadeh Samani
Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States
Magdalena Szuster
Review of White by Bret Easton Ellis
Mark Tardi

Editors
- Editor-in-Chief: Dorota Filipczak (University of Lodz)
- Guest editors:
- Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary)
- Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb)