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

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

Andrzej Wicher, Rachel E. Burke

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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).

A SPECIAL EVENT IN TEXT MATTERS

“I Made This Munch”: Mieke Bal Talks to Dorota Filipczak about the Exhibition Emma & Edvard: Love in the Time of Loneliness, opened in Munchmuseet, Oslo (27 Jan. 2017)

 

EMMA & EDVARD

Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Rachel E. Burke (Williams College)

Sensing the Present: “Conceptual Art of the Senses”

 

Jonathan Culler (Cornell University)

Flaubert’s Provocation

 

Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University)

Imagining Hedda Gabler: Munch and Ibsen on Art and Modern Life

 

Ernst van Alphen (Leiden University)

Attention for Distraction: Modernity, Modernism and Perception

 

Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro (University of Murcia)

Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård

 

Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds)

Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch

 

Patricia G. Berman (Wellesley College)

Responding to Modern Sensibilities: Emma and Edvard Entangled

 

 

SHAKESPEARE IN NEW CONFIGURATIONS

Magdalena Cieślak (University of Łódź)

Authority in Crisis? The Dynamic of the Relationship Between Prospero and Miranda in Appropriations of The Tempest

 

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney (University of Łódź)

The Cultural Role and Political Implications of Poland’s 1947 Shakespeare Festival

 

Piotr Spyra (University of Łódź)

Shakespeare and the Demonization of Fairies

 

Andrzej Wicher (University of Łódź)

Wawel Meets Elsinore. The National and Universal Aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

 

THE IMPORTANCE OF PERFORMATIVE ASPECTS OF DRAMA

Anthony Barker (University of Aveiro)

“Consider Yourself One of Us”: The Dickens Musical on Stage and Screen

 

Aleksandra Ożarowska (University of Warsaw)

The Paramount Role of Translation in Modern Opera Productions

 

Persephone Sextou (Newman University), Cory Smith (Newman University)

Drama is for Life! Recreational Drama Activities for the Elderly in the UK

 

Małgorzata Sugiera (Jagiellonian University)

Theatre as Contagion: Making Sense of Communication in Performative Arts

 

 

 

EXPERIMENTAL MIMESIS IN MODERN BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA

David Allen (Midland Actors Theatre, Birmingham),Agata Handley (University of Łódź)

“Being Human”: Edward Bond’s Theories of Drama

 

Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak (University of Wrocław)

Caryl Churchill’s Artificial and Orificial Bodies: Between Subjective and Non-Subjective Nobody’s Emotion or Affect

 

Edyta Lorek-Jezińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)

Mimesis in Crisis: Narration and Diegesis in Contemporary Anglophone Theatre and Drama

 

Paulina Mirowska (University of Łódź)

Negotiating Reality: Sam Shepard’s States of Shock, or “A Vaudeville Nightmare”

 

Jadwiga Uchman (University of Łódź)

Pinteresque Dialogue

 

 

TRADITIONAL EPIC PATTERNS SEEN IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF MODERNITY

Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)

Éowyn and the Biblical Tradition of a Warrior Woman

 

Rafał Łyczkowski (Independent Scholar)

Literature That Saves: Matilda as a Reader of Great Expectations in Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

  • Title: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 7 (2017)
  • Author: Andrzej Wicher, Rachel E. Burke
  • ISBN: 2084-574X, 2084574X
  • Date of issue: 2017-10-16
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_4gb8
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego