Testy penetracyjne nowoczesnych serwisów. Kompendium inżynierów bezpieczeństwa

Prakhar Prasad

Testy penetracyjne nowoczesnych serwisów. Kompendium inżynierów bezpieczeństwa Sieć stała się niebezpiecznym miejscem. Między grasującymi złoczyńcami a inżynierami bezpieczeństwa aplikacji trwa ciągły wyścig zbrojeń. Mimo to oczywiste jest, że uzyskanie stuprocentowego bezpieczeństwa jest niemożliwe. Jedną z technik zabezpieczania aplikacji są testy penetracyjne, które polegają na atakowaniu systemu różnymi metodami, aby odnaleźć jego słabe punkty i pokazać, jak można się do niego włamać. Niniejsza książka stanowi wyczerpujące źródło wiedzy dla testerów przeprowadzających analizę aplikacji internetowej. Opisano tu zarówno najnowsze, jak i klasyczne techniki łamania zabezpieczeń — bardzo często starsze metody rozwijają się w różnych kierunkach i nie należy o nich zapominać. Między innymi przedstawiono informacje o atakach XML, w tym XXE, oraz metody wykorzystywania słabych stron OAuth 2.0. Omówiono również XSS, CSRF, Metasploit i wstrzykiwanie SQL. Nie zabrakło również opisu rzeczywistych przypadków testowania aplikacji. Nowe lub mniej popularne techniki ataku na strony WWW takie jak wstrzykiwanie obiektów PHP lub wykorzystanie danych XML. Sposób pracy z narzędziami do przeprowadzania testów bezpieczeństwa, aby w ten sposób zautomatyzować żmudne zadania. Różne rodzaje nagłówków HTTP wspomagających zapewnienie wysokiego poziomu bezpieczeństwa aplikacji. Wykorzystywanie i wykrywanie różnego rodzaju podatności XSS. Ochronę aplikacji dzięki technikom filtracji. Stare techniki ataku takie jak XSS, CSRF i wstrzykiwanie SQL, ale w nowej osłonie. Techniki ataku takie jak XXE i DoS wykorzystujące pliki XML. Sposoby testowania API typu REST w celu znalezienia różnego rodzaju podatności i wycieków danych. Testy penetracyjne — klucz do bezpieczeństwa Twojej aplikacji! Prakhar Prasad mieszka w Indiach. Jest ekspertem w dziedzinie bezpieczeństwa aplikacji specjalizującym się w testach penetracyjnych. W 2014 roku został sklasyfikowany na dziesiątej pozycji w światowym rankingu HackerOne. Zdobył kilka nagród za znalezienie luk bezpieczeństwa w takich serwisach, jak Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal czy Slack. Posiada certyfikaty z OSCP. Przeprowadza testy bezpieczeństwa dla różnych organizacji rządowych, pozarządowych i edukacyjnych.

Testy penetracyjne środowiska Active Directory i infrastruktury opartej na systemie Windows

Denis Isakov

Cyberprzestępczość to obecnie wielki biznes i wielka polityka. Zaangażowane podmioty nieustannie dążą do doskonalenia technik ataków. Cyberprzestępcy dysponują własną metodologią, narzędziami i wykwalifikowanym personelem. Aby obronić się przed nimi, musisz zrozumieć, w jaki sposób atakują, a potem dobrze poznać ich taktyki i techniki. W trakcie lektury tej książki przygotujesz własne laboratorium, a następnie przeanalizujesz każdy etap zabójczego łańcucha ataków i zastosujesz nową wiedzę w praktyce. Dowiesz się, jak ominąć wbudowane mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa, między innymi AMSI, AppLocker i Sysmon, przeprowadzać działania rozpoznawcze i wykrywające w środowisku domeny, a także zbierać dane uwierzytelniające w całej domenie. Przeczytasz również, jak poruszać się ruchem bocznym, aby wtopić się w ruch środowiska i pozostać niewykrytym przez radary obrońców, a ponadto jak eskalować uprawnienia wewnątrz domeny i w całym lesie domen czy osiągać stan przetrwania na poziomie domeny i w kontrolerze domeny. W efekcie nauczysz się przeprowadzać ocenę bezpieczeństwa różnych produktów i usług Microsoftu, takich jak Exchange Server, SQL Server i SCCM. Ciekawsze zagadnienia: techniki atakowania usług: Active Directory, Exchange Server, WSUS, SCCM, AD CS i SQL Server skuteczne unikanie wykrycia w środowisku ofensywne bezpieczeństwo operacyjne (OpSec) sposoby naprawy błędnych konfiguracji przygotowanie rzeczywistych scenariuszy Testuj granice odporności swojej infrastruktury!

Testy statystyczne w procesie podejmowania decyzji

Czesław Domański, Aleksandra Baszczyńska, Dorota Pekasiewicz, Anna Witaszczyk

Wiedza statystyczna jest cenna dla przedstawicieli wszystkich zawodów, ponieważ przed podjęciem działań należy najpierw stawiać pytania, a następnie uzyskiwać właściwe informacje. W dzisiejszym świecie istnieje potrzeba myślenia statystycznego. Jesteśmy otoczeni wyzwaniami różnorodnych banków danych, które wymagają coraz lepszych metod statystycznych, algorytmów, modeli systemów przetwarzania. Statystyka zajmuje się kolekcjonowaniem informacji liczbowych oraz ich analizą i interpretacją. Zawarte w książce metody pozwalają odpowiedzieć na pytanie, w jaki sposób te informacje liczbowe (dane), opisują nam populacje i zjawiska, których dotyczą. Odpowiedź zależy nie tylko od samych informacji, tzn. od obserwacji, ale również od wiedzy a priori. Ta wiedza jest formalizowana za pomocą założeń przy konstrukcji metod. Najczęściej rozróżniane są trzy podejścia oparte na różnych zasadach. Należą do nich: analiza danych, klasyczne wnioskowanie i teoria decyzji, analiza bayesowska. Autorzy opisują różne klasy testów statystycznych umożliwiające aplikację metod wnioskowania statystycznego w przypadkach, w których klasyczne procedury są niemożliwe do zastosowania lub wykorzystanie ich wiąże się z ryzykiem podjęcia błędnych decyzji. Procedury weryfikacji hipotez statystycznych uwzględniane w procesach podejmowania decyzji mogą zainteresować zarówno badaczy zjawisk ekonomicznych, socjologicznych i przyrodniczych, jak studentów kierunków społecznych, rolniczych, medycznych i technicznych. 

Teściowa

Maria Metlicka

Lena jest wciąż młoda i pełna energii i ma zostać teściową. A nie za bardzo podoba się jej wybranka serca syna. W bestsellerowej powieści rosyjskiej autorki Marii Metlickiej, na podstawie której powstał bijący rekordy popularności serial komediowy, to teściowa jest fajna, a synowa zgryźliwa. Czyli wszystko na odwrót. Wzięta z życia historia, która bawi do łez autorstwa rosyjskiej Katarzyny Grocholi.

Teściowe i fałszywy papież

Alek Rogoziński

Kiedy umiera znany z konserwatywnych poglądów papież Urban IX, a na jego miejsce wybrany zostaje młody i postępowy Marceli III, Rzym przygotowuje się do wielkiej fety z okazji inauguracji jego pontyfikatu. Wybierają się na nią też i bohaterki bestsellera "Teściowe muszą zniknąć" - Kazimiera Niedzielska i Maja Wrzesińska, pierwszy raz zjednoczone w tej samej, entuzjastycznej opinii o następcy świętego Piotra. Żadna z nich nie może jednak przewidzieć, że podróż do Wiecznego Miasta zamieni się w mrożący krew w żyłach thriller, w którym zmuszone będą walczyć o życie - nie tylko swoje, ale też i młodego papieża. Pytanie tylko: czy oby na pewno wiedzą, kogo ratują ze śmiertelnego niebezpieczeństwa? "Teściowe i fałszywy papież" to kolejna komedia kryminalna Alka Rogozińskiego, autora znanego z łączenia klasycznych intryg detektywistycznych z dużą dawką czarnego humoru.

Teściowe muszą zniknąć

Alek Rogoziński

Dwie kobiety w tak zwanym "pięknym wieku", dwa różne światy. Kazimiera zaczyna i kończy dzień odmawianiem paciorka, regularnie zasila konto radia Święta Jadwiga i uważa, że największą zmorą naszego kraju są "elgiebety", lewactwo i ateiści. Maja nie przepuści żadnej parady równości, żyje ze swoim partnerem na kocią łapę, nadużywa wszystkich używek, jakie tylko wpadną jej w rękę, a z rzeczy świętych uznaje tylko święty spokój. Obie, rzecz jasna, serdecznie się nie znoszą. Problem w tym, że syn pierwszej z nich i córka drugiej są małżeństwem. Kiedy ich dzieci zostają oskarżone o popełnienie morderstwa, Kazimiera i Maja muszą połączyć siły, aby udowodnić ich niewinność. Pytanie - czy prędzej same się nie pozabijają? "Teściowe muszą zniknąć" to największy hit w bogatym dorobku literackim Alka Rogozińskiego. Drugie, poprawione wydanie powieści wzbogacone zostało o nowe dialogi. Przeżyjcie szalone przygody teściowych raz jeszcze!

Teściowe w tarapatach

Alek Rogoziński

To miała być relaksująca wycieczka dwóch teściowych w Świętokrzyskie. I choć jedna z nich pragnęła zwiedzić tam wszystkie możliwe sanktuaria maryjne, a druga jedynie skosztować trunków w lokalnych winnicach i zrelaksować się w tamtejszych SPA, to szybko połączył je wspólny cel: ratowanie życia. Wplątane w morderstwo, uciekające przed członkami tajemniczej organizacji znanej od wieków jako zakon Smoka, niemogące liczyć na pomoc policji, Kazimiera i Maja będą musiały wykazać się umiejętnościami godnymi agentek służb specjalnych. A przede wszystkim - nauczyć się ze sobą współpracować. A to nie będzie łatwe! "Teściowe w tarapatach" to kontynuacja megahitu "Teściowe muszą zniknąć" pióra Alka Rogozińskiego, autora znanego z łączenia klasycznych intryg kryminalnych z dużą dawką czarnego humoru.

Tetherstones

Ethel M. Dell

First published in 1923, this is a magnificent story about an ill-treated but fiercely proud heroine. A young lady meets a mysterious stranger at a farm called Tetherstones, where Druids in ancient times used to perform their human sacrifices. The master of Tetherstones is a large brute of a man, more gladiator than farmer, and the heroine finds herself strangely attracted by him. Is a new start possible for either one of them or will the past win out? A tale of tempestuous, unfolding love absolutely thrilling. Ethel May Dell Savage (1881-1939) was a British author known by her pen name Ethel M. Dell. She wrote over 30 popular romance novels and numerous of short stories between 1911-1939. Her stories were romantic in nature, often set in India and other old British colonies, and were considered quite racy for the time.

Teverino

George Sand

Événements se déroulant en Italie. Sabina et Leonza sont deux jeunes personnes qui ont une relation incompréhensible. Entre amour et amitié Une conversation entre eux aura une incidence sur leur relation future. Cette histoire enseignera beaucoup de choses aux adultes et aux enfants.

Text Analytics for Business Decisions. Mastering Techniques for Insightful Data Interpretation through a Case Study Approach

Mercury Learning and Information, Andres Fortino

This book leverages advanced techniques and tools in data science to extend data analysis from numeric and categorical data to textual data. Designed for business analysts, it uses a case study approach to teach skills in extracting insights from text data, supporting business decision-making. Exercises primarily use Excel and R, covering techniques from basic text analytics to sophisticated methods like topic extraction and text similarity scoring.The course begins with framing analytical questions and exploring analytical tool sets. It progresses through preparing data files, performing word frequency and keyword analysis, and conducting sentiment analysis. Advanced topics include visualizing text data, coding, named entity recognition, and topic recognition in documents. The book also covers text similarity scoring and the analysis of large datasets by sampling.Throughout this journey, readers will apply the CRISP-DM data mining standard, using companion files with numerous datasets for practical exercises. By the end, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of text analytics, enabling them to derive meaningful insights from textual data to inform business strategies.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 1 (2011)

Dorota Filipczak

The first issue of Text Matters, published in 2011 and supervised by its editor-in-chief, Professor Dorota Filipczak, consists of two main sections. The first one, entitled "Women and Authority," contains thirteen texts exploring, in its editor's words, "the relationship between women and authority, vested in literary and philosophical texts." The authors come from different backgrounds: philosophy, theology, literature, while their articles concern the works of authors as varied as Michele Le Doeuff, Jane Urquhart, Laurence Sterne, Michele Roberts, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan, Muriel Spark, Denise Levertov, Mary Dorcey, Carol Shields, Sylvia Plath, and Janet Frame. One of the analyses is devoted to the male/female relations in selected late medieval and early modern English texts. In the second section, named "Word/Image/Sound," there are six scholarly articles that cover the following topics: the oeuvre of Rudy Wiebe, close connections between artistry and religion, the postcolonial aspects of Michael Haneke's Hidden, the use of Ulster dialects in the poetry of Tom Paulin and Michael Longley, the role of dance in Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney, and, finally, the depiction of ambiguity and paradox in Ian McEwan's Saturday. Additionally, the volume includes an overview of book tributes to Professor Andrzej Kopcewicz, a look at the current state of American newspapers, a review of The Body (edited by Ilona Dobosiewicz and Jacek Gutorow), as well as two conversations: between Jared Thomas and Teresa Podemska-Abt, and Pamela Sue Anderson and Alison Jasper.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 10 (2020)

Dorota Filipczak

Issue 10 (2020), entitled "Literature Goes Pop" and edited by the journal's editor-in-chief, Dorota Filipczak, revolves around the encounters between literary intertexts/conventions/genres and the visual/digital modes. Although the volume opens with a critical essay on Pamela Sue Anderson's philosophy, the next sixteen scholarly texts explore a wide range of topics demonstrating close ties between literature and widely understood pop culture: film, music videos, the blogosphere, biographies of iconic poets, the realm of cyberpunk, video games, and even memes, as demonstrated by the article on online humor responding to the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The next section, playfully named "Literar(t)y Matters," deals with the following subjects: sensorial aesthetics in modernist fiction, Hart Crane's and Yvor Winters's interactions with Emily Dickinson's poetic legacy, the cosmic sublime in Tracy K. Smith's Life on Mars, the depiction of racial issues in contemporary US in Claudia Rankine's Citizen. An American Lyric, the portrayal of 19th-century America in Frances Wright's works, Wallace Stevens's ties to philosophy, a morphogenetic perspective on intertextuality, Thomas William Robertson's well-made plays, and wartime propaganda and gender in Ahmad Mahmoud's The Scorched Earth.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 11 (2021)

Liam Gearon

The main section of issue 11 (2021), edited by Liam Gearon, deals with the entangled relationship between literature, security, and intelligence. Like other forms of media, books have been used as part of the ideological and intelligence apparatus; authors have been perceived as a physical or ideological threat by dictatorial regimes and targeted alongside intellectuals, to be undermined or even eliminated. While propaganda itself can be considered a weapon of war, books and bombshells often share the same ideological trajectory, particularly during times of war: the cultural always forms a backdrop to conflict. This volume of Text Matters offers a broad treatment of various alignments between the notions of security and cultural production. The subjects addressed include the figure of the spy and themes related to espionage, e.g. in the works of Ciaran Carson; political, cultural and religious destabilizations in (post)Troubles-era Northern Ireland in the poetry of Paul Muldoon and the fiction of Anna Burns; populist and fictional notions of the migrant as "terrorist" in contemporary film and literature; shifting ideas of security in dystopian, post-apocalyptic narratives with a feminist twist (Mad Max: Fury Road); a psychology of security in a reinterpretation of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels. The remaining three sections, titled "Bodies, Traumas, Transgressions," "Pop Cultural Encounters," and "Literary Continuities" offer a broad array of subjects, ranging from the fictions of Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut to the sculptures of Kiki Smith and Shakesperean plays. The concluding part consists of four reviews (of Agnieszka Łowczanin's A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic: Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe, Nolen Gertz's Nihilism, Don DeLillo's The Silence, and Natalie Crohn Schmitt's Performing Commedia dell'Arte, 1570-1630). The issue is dedicated to the memory of the journal's Founder, Dorota Filipczak (1963-2021).

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 12 (2022)

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Christian Arnsperger

Issue 12 (2022) of Text Matters, titled The Ecological Future, edited by Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Christian Arnsperger of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, deals with the temporal aspect of the ecological challenge facing humanity. Time is a central category in thinking about the environment because of our focus on the planet's possible futures as well as our awareness of how quickly the climate is changing and how fast we must react if we want to prevent a catastrophe. These issues are addressed by the volume's main section, containing scholarly papers, excerpts from two books by William deBuys, a fictional narrative by John Michael Greer, a screenplay by Elizabeth Watson, and conversations with the three authors. The scholarly articles discuss the work of writers such as J. G. Ballard, Imbolo Mbue, Cherie Dimaline, Louise Erdrich, Gary Snyder, Kenneth White, Richard Powers, and M. R. Carey, as well as graphic novels, photography, painting, and cultural practices. Their main points of focus are re-flected by the titles of the five sub-sections into which they have been divided: "Tempo-rality and Deep Time," "Eco-Anxiety and Anthropocene Nostalgia," "Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures," "Interconnectivity and Animacy," and "Ecotopia and Eco-Futurism." The ecological futures imagined in these interventions require creating new narratives of modernity, often, as it turns out, ones inspired by Indigenous attitudes to-wards the biosphere. As the ecological is often closely linked to different approaches towards the body, the subsequent section, titled "BODY/TEXT/IMAGE," contains pa-pers discussing several works of literature as well as visual and performing arts, sharing the theme of corporeality and embodiment. The volume is concluded by a review of a scholarly volume on Shakespeare and an interview with Philip Terry.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 13 (2023)

Małgorzata Myk, Mark Tardi

Issue 13 (2023), entitled "Literary and Visual Extremities" and edited by Małgorzata Myk and Mark Tardi, explores the notion of extremity in diverse types of artistic practice, from strictly literary to visual/performative. Eleven scholarly texts, collected in five subsections ("Extreme Borders," "Extreme Ecologies," "Limits," "Extreme Forms," and "Memory in Extremis") deal with the works by Lara Haddad, Divya Victor, Allison Cobb, Adam Dickinson, Jorie Graham, Clark Coolidge, Barbara Guest, Susan Howe, Emmett Williams, Roman Stańczak, Dennis Cooper, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jordan Harrison. The volume continues with the "Artistic Collaborations" section, supervised by Justyna Stępień and Joanna Kosmalska. It consists of six articles that discuss Matthew Barney's Redoubt, Colum McCann's Apeirogon, Richard A. Carter's Waveform, the notion of multilingualism in Polish migrant theatre, and, finally, the Spirals artistic project. The next section, "Grief/Trauma/Social Unrest," centers on the portrayal of mourning in selected US-American TV series, grief memoirs, the depiction of toxic masculinity in Teddy Wayne's Loner, and representations of working-class communities in British cinema. The final section, "Continuities," examines literature concerned with the ecological future, Harry Styles's music videos, the notion of abjection in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, and nation-building in India in the early 20th century, as demonstrated by the press from this period. Additionally, issue 13 contains two reviews: of Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Caroline Young's Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 14 (2024)

Małgorzata Hołda, Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Issue 14 (2024) of Text Matters centers on the intertwined concepts of dwelling and belonging, exploring their complexities and dimensions within literature and culture. The editors, Małgorzata Hołda and Ramsey Eric Ramsey, introduce these themes as fundamental to the human experience of being-in-the-world, encompassing a vast array of human concerns and historical situatedness. The nineteen essays, grouped in five broad sections, examine topics as varied as disputes between Arendt and Heidegger, the intertwined nature of "belonging and longing" in the philosophies of Renaud Barbaras and Jean-Luc Marion, the intricate relationships between dwelling and identity, particularly within urban and environmentally stressed contexts, the retrieval of memories and the redefinition of personal identity in relation to urban space and altered surroundings, dwelling in urban and environmentally endangered areas, the entanglement of urban subjectivity with non-human elements, and seeking models of collective memory and dwelling that move beyond anthropocentric concepts. The main section also covers various modes of belonging, including the concept of home for digital objects and their interactions within online environments, regional identity in poetry, the experience of hate crime and reclaiming belonging, and the use of art and literature to analyze memory, absence, and socio-political critique. What follows is the "(More-Than-Human) Intersections, (More-Than-Generic) Liminalities" section that gathers seven scholarly texts discussing the representation of animal revolts in literature, transgression(s) in Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country, depiction of post-apartheid white identity in Die Antwoord's music videos, the horror elements in Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse, the ecocritical reading of Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders, the concepts of disnarration and denarration in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and innovation in the poetry by Charles Bernstein and Andrzej Sosnowski.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 2 (2012)

Dorota Filipczak

The theme of issue 2 (2012) is "Marginalia/Marginalities" explored across literature, theatre, film, and cultural theory. It opens with a conversation between Dorota Filipczak and film director Krzysztof Zanussi, addressing cultural exchange and the challenges faced by European cinema. The section "Marginal Matters in Theatre and Film" examines how actors and marginalized spaces have been historically portrayed. Its contributors discuss 18th-century biographies that reframe actors as cultural agents, Samuel Beckett's self-translation of Waiting for Godot, nature as a marginal force in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, and the rise of The Big Lebowski from cult obscurity to cultural significance. The authors in the "Margins in Fiction, Poetry and Literary Theory" section write about revisiting the Gothic genre, linking marginality to terror and the fantastic in fin de siecle fiction, Bruno Schulz's ex-libris art, J. H. Prynne's poetry, Edward Said's oeuvre, the Polish reception of Thomas Keneally, and the role of false quotations in Jim Crace's Arcadia. The final section, "Marginalized Identities," focuses on individuals in conflict with dominant cultural or social norms. Topics include Ira Daniel Aldridge's biography, gay masculinities in "Brokeback Mountain," female marginalization in dystopian fiction, and intercultural identity in works by Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Daniel Chacon, Michel Tournier, Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Aravind Adiga. The issue concludes with three reviews (of The Making of London: London in Contemporary Literature by Sebastian Groes; Simon Glendinning's Derrida; and Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies, edited by Deborah L. Madsen), as well as two interviews: between Fadia Faqir and Maria Assif, and Norman Ravvin and Krzysztof Majer.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 3 (2013)

Jadwiga Uchman

Issue 3 (2013) of Text Matters, entitled Eroticism and Its Discontents and edited by Professor Jadwiga Uchman (University of Lodz), is a collection of essays that concentrate on representations of eroticism in literature and film. The main section is divided into two subsections, the first of which, "Eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance Literature," consists of six scholarly texts. They discuss erotic imagery in the works of the anonymous Pearl Poet, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio, Middle English mystical writers, and John Fletcher. The second one, "Eroticism in Modern Drama, Film and Prose," includes eight articles that approach the main theme of the volume in the oeuvre of such renowned authors as Samuel Beckett, Christina Reid, Sarah Daniels, Harold Pinter, and Salman Rushdie. They also explore the following notions: eroticism in urban drama, sexually explicit content in modern European cinema, and nudity in cinematic and stage adaptations of Shakespearean plays. Additionally, the volume continues the main subject of issue 2, "Marginalia/Marginalities," in the second part of an essay devoted to Ira Daniel Aldridge, the son of a famous 19th-century Shakespearean actor. The concluding section contains three reviews (of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, edited by Jaydeep Sarangi; the fifth edition of J. A. Cuddon's A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M. A. R. Habib; and Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Lodz) and two interviews (with Dan Rebellato and Rukmini Bhaya Nair).

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 4 (2014)

Pamela Sue Anderson

Issue 4 (2014) of Text Matters, titled Re-visioning Ricoeur and Kristeva and edited by Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford, UK), concerns new perspectives on the work of the two prominent philosophers. The scholarly articles tackle issues connected with sexuality, gender, religion, education, ethics, alterity, feminism, art, and literary genre, focusing on the themes of violence, loss, horror, vision, life, birth, recognition, imagination, and transformation. Ricoeur's thought is used for considering its practical implications for education and the possibility of dealing with sexual abuse, and as a critical tool for reading of Milton's Paradise Lost. Papers engaging with Kristeva's insights ponder her significance in recent critical debates, analyze her textual readings of the Hebrew Bible and her exhibition catalogue The Severed Head, and employ her theory for interpreting Doris Lessing's The Cleft as well as the nature of the Gothic genre. Both philosophers' thought is used to interpret Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the work of the Irish poet Sinead Morrissey, and reevaluated in terms of the importance of gender for Ricoeur's and Kristeva's work. Apart from the main section, the volume features a continuation of the main theme of issue 3, "Eroticism and Its Discontents," in an essay devoted to a folk song about King Peter I Lusignan from Cyprus, and a sub-section called "Irish Themes," analyzing the work of Sir Samuel Ferguson and W. B. Yeats. Finally, the volume contains a review of Christina M. Gschwandtner's book on God in contemporary philosophy, and interviews with Mieke Bal, Roddy Doyle, and Joanna Czechowska.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 5 (2015)

Jadwiga Maszewska

The aim of the main sections of issue 5 (2015), edited by Jadwiga Maszewska, is to draw attention to the growing significance of collecting, archiving, and publishing. As Jeremy Braddock argues in Collecting as Modernist Practice, the material collection and the anthology should both be considered as an "authored work," and, following Bourdieu, a "system of positions." The history of collecting and publishing in the 20th century-"from Peggy Guggenheim to the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX"-illustrates a widespread development and framing of how literary and cultural materials are received. Publishers, editors, librarians, and curators have all played a fundamental role in authoring and shaping the reception, preservation, and influence of textual and cultural objects. Thus, the fifth issue of Text Matters is organized, for the most part, around the themes of collecting, anthologizing, and publishing in the context of North American literature and cultural practice, with special emphasis on the visual arts. Among the topics addressed are actual sites and institutions, such as the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, or the Toronto-based Coach House Press; archival practices, e.g. the problem of preserving works created in the ephemeral digital media; the anthologizing impulse, for instance in the wake of tragedies such as 9/11; and literary representations or figures of the archive, e.g. in post-apocalyptic fiction. The special section entitled "Exhibitions" concerns artistic practices variously connected to the city of Łódź, the journal's home, and includes discussions of works by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. The final section involves conversations with influential translation theorist Sherry Simon and foremost Polish Americanist Agnieszka Salska.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 6 (2016)

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Issue 6 of Text Matters, entitled Gothic Matters and edited by Professor Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (University of Lausanne), is a collection of essays that explore the relevance of the Gothic genre (and Gothic studies as such) in the first decades of the 21st century. Apart from the informative editorial, the main section contains thirteen scholarly texts that address topics as diverse as the reading of The Monk by M. G. Lewis and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through the lens of the French Revolution, the EcoGothic analysis of Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, the notion of Imperial Gothic, the filmic representations of (dismembered) hands, the Gothic in postcolonial writing in the Philippines and the American pastoral tradition, the close ties between the Gothic, globalization and economic crisis (as aptly illustrated by Cormac McCarthy's The Road, as well as two films: Take Shelter and Winter's Bone), gender and genre hybridity in the Supernatural series, vampires (in American Indian myths and in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive), and, finally, the juxtaposition of zombies with the Big Pharma. The volume also includes three texts gathered in the section appropriately named Intersections. They discuss the images of Trebizond and the Pontos in contemporary literature in English, allusions to Henryk Sienkiewicz's short story "The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall" in "Through the Panama" by Malcolm Lowry, and liminality in Tony Harrison's poetry. The concluding section consists of three reviews (of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic, edited by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; Charles I. Armstrong's Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History; and Anna Pochmara's The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance) and two interviews (with Bill Gaston and Uilleam Blacker).

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 7 (2017)

Andrzej Wicher, Rachel E. Burke

Issue 7 (2017) of Text Matters opens with an exclusive conversation between Mieke Bal, a cultural theorist, critic, and video artist, and Dorota Filipczak, the journal's editor-in-chief. It is followed by a special section entitled "Emma and Edvard" (edited by Rachel E. Burke) that includes seven scholarly texts revolving thematically around Emma and Edvard: Love in the Time of Loneliness, an exhibition curated by Mieke Bal that opened in Munchmuseet, Oslo, on 27 January 2017. The articles explore the intersections between the works of Gustave Flaubert, Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen, and Charlotte Salomon, among others. The volume continues with an extensive section named "Drama, Performance, Media" (edited by Andrzej Wicher). Its main points of focus are reflected by the titles of its three subsections: "Shakespeare in New Configurations," "The Importance of Performative Aspects of Drama," and "Experimental Mimesis in Modern British and Irish Drama." The first of them presents selected aspects of Shakespearean studies: the distribution of gender roles in The Tempest, the (mis)representation of fairies in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the political implications of a Shakespearean theatre festival organized in a post-war Poland, as well as affinities between the Bard of Avon and Stanisław Wyspiański. The second one discusses Dickensian musicals on stage and screen, the importance of translation in contemporary opera productions, recreational drama classes for the elderly in the UK, and the concept of contagion in the theatrical context. The third one deals with Edward Bond's theories of drama, Caryl Churchill's plays, the employment of diegetic and narrative forms in modern Anglophone drama, and, finally, the works of Sam Shepard and Harold Pinter. The volume concludes with a short section, "Traditional Epic Patterns Seen in the Perspective of Modernity," which contains two texts (on the portrayal of Eowyn in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and on Lloyd Jones's novel, Mister Pip).

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 8 (2018)

Wit Pietrzak

Issue 8 (2018) of Text Matters is a collection of texts on diverse topics within literary and cultural studies, focusing on Ireland and including the literary explorations of American and Canadian identities. The main section, "Engaging Ireland: History, Politics and Aesthetics," edited by Wit Pietrzak, features essays critically examining Irish history and culture through literary analysis. Among the articles in this section, we can find the analysis of Kevin McCarthy's Peeler as a post revisionist novel, a re-evaluation of George Moore's role in the Gaelic Revival, as well as articles on Colm Tóibin's Brooklyn, Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys, Michael Longley's poetry, the connection between gender issues, Irish poetry, and the Troubles, Frank Ormsby's poems on war and soldiers in A Northern Spring, Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, the Charabanc collective's Somewhere over the Balcony, and the coverage of the Irish Famine in the American press. The "Continuities" section concentrates on the portrayal of Jews in Chester Mystery Cycle plays, Alan Spence's play No Nothing, and the construction of otherness in modern sci-fi cinema. Articles in "Engaging American Identities" concern the artistic connection between Hart Crane and David Siqueiros, the General Council of the Chippewa's governance structure blending traditional and American systems, the representation of oppressive whiteness in Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress, the political potential of parataxis and Ron Silliman's New Sentence in disrupting conventional narratives, the perpetuation of white male supremacy through economic exploitation of black domestics as seen in V. F. Durr's memoirs, Laila Lalami's novel The Moor's Account, the literary experience of childhood and nostalgia, Josefina Niggli's Mexican Village exploring Mexican culture and border narratives through folklore, the concept of simulacrum in American art and photography, and the notion of hyperreality and the antihero in Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Finally, the "Canadiana" part discusses the works of Timothy Findley and Audrey Thomas. The issue concludes with three reviews (of John Berryman's Public Vision by Philip Coleman; Barry Shiels's W. B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry; and Stewart Parker's Hopdance), as well as Jadwiga Uchman's interview with Jan Jędrzejewski.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 9 (2019)

Aritha van Herk, Vanja Polić

Issue 9 (2019) of Text Matters, titled Roguery and (Sub)Versions, edited by Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary) and Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb), focuses on the figure of the new rogue as a personification of subversion in literature and film. Roguery is understood here both as a feature of characters who break up societal conformity through their creativity, and of texts which embrace liminality and defy discursive boundaries. These visions of roguery are addressed by the volume's first section, "New Versions of Roguery," which contains papers dealing with Bruce Chatwin's rogue appropriation of the concept of songlines, the representation of women manipulating others through wealth, the rogue protagonist of the film Monster, mobility in the road movies Scorpio Rising and Duel as well as fiction by Guy Vanderhaeghe, the self-fashioning rogue in a short story by Aleksandar Hemon and in Ned Buntline's fiction, rogue textuality in comics, a subversion of roguery in Patrick deWitt's novel, and roguery understood as disappearance. The second section, "(Sub)Versions and (Re)Visions," builds on the rogue's subversive potential, and includes papers on the figure of Mary Magdalene in Michele Roberts's book, the figure of the heretic in the secular age, life writing by Joe Brainard, the Irish noir by Lisa McInerney, and the hardboiled fiction of Ross Macdonald. The following section called "Negotiating Traumas" contains essays that discuss the ability of performance art to heal trauma, the figure of the trickster in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, as well as trauma in hag horror. Finally, "Liminal Spaces" includes papers focusing on the environmental disaster in the poetry of Robert Minhinnick, spatial representations in J. G. Ballard's novel, a Virilian reading of Don DeLillo, and the development of American improvisational theatre. The volume ends with reviews of works by Sam Solnick and Bret Easton Ellis.