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

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

Aritha van Herk, Vanja Polić

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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.

NEW VERSIONS OF ROGUERY

Aritha van Herk (University of Calgary), Vanja Polić (University of Zagreb)

New Versions of Roguery

 

Christine Nicholls (Australian National University, Canberra)

A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered

 

Veronika Schuchter (University of Oxford)

Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film

 

Michelle D. Wise (Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN)

“You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s Monster as Rogue Cinema

 

Kornelia Boczkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Steven Spielberg’s Duel/

 

Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana)

Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”

 

Jordan Bolay (University of Calgary)

“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction

 

Ronnie Scott (RMIT University, Melbourne)

Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature

 

Hilde Staels (Leuven University)

The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers

 

Mark Metzler Sawin (Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA)

The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance

 

Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University, Calgary)

Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes

 

(SUB)VERSIONS AND (RE)VISIONS

Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)

“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs

 

Marta Zając (University of Silesia, Katowice)

Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful

 

Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław)

Joe Brainard’s I Remember, Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity

 

Katarzyna Ostalska (University of Łódź)

“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies (2015) and The Blood Miracles (2017)

 

Lech Zdunkiewicz (University of Wrocław)

Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s Black Money

 

NEGOTIATING TRAUMAS

Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester)

Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence

 

Monika Kocot (University of Łódź)

On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as Healing

 

Tomasz Fisiak (University of Łódź)

What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma

 

LIMINAL SPACES

Agata Handley (University of Łódź)

“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s Diary of the Last Man

 

Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław)

Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island

 

Hossein Pirnajmuddin (University of Isfahan), Bahareh Bagherzadeh Samani (Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University)

Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Virilian Perspective

 

Magdalena Szuster (University of Łódź)

Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States

 

REVIEWS

Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź)

Poetry, Environment and the Possibility of Future. A Review of Sam Solnick’s Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017)

 

Mark Tardi (University of Łódź)

Review of White by Bret Easton Ellis

  • Titel: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 9 (2019)
  • Autor: Aritha van Herk, Vanja Polić
  • ISBN: 2084-574X, 2084574X
  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2019-11-23
  • Format: E-book
  • Artikelkennung: e_4e2m
  • Verleger: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego