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).
Editorial
EROTICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: EROTICISM IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Piotr Spyra (University of Łódź)
Beyond the Garden: On the Erotic in the Vision of the Middle English Pearl
Barbara Kowalik (University of Warsaw)
Eros and Pilgrimage in Chaucer’s and Shakespeare’s Poetry
Andrzej Wicher (University of Łódź)
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives
Władysław Witalisz (Jagiellonian University)
“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings
Steve Orman (Canterbury Christ Church University)
“Youth is Drunke with Pleasure, and therefore Dead to all Goodnesse”: Regulating the Excess of the Erotic Early Modern Body
Urszula Kizelbach (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Eroticism—Politics—Identity: The Case of Richard III
EROTICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: EROTICISM IN MODERN DRAMA, FILM AND PROSE
Jadwiga Uchman (University of Łódź)
In a World Characterized by Transience and Doomed to Extinction Some Old Women Still Need Love—Mrs Rooney from Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska (University of Łódź)
Eroticism in the “Cold Climate” of Northern Ireland in Christina Reid’s The Belle of the Belfast City
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak (University of Wrocław)
Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach
Edyta Lorek-Jezińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
Pornography Debate, Gaze and Spectatorship in Sarah Daniels’s Masterpieces
Paulina Mirowska (University of Łódź)
Eroticism and Justice: Harold Pinter’s Screenplay of Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers
Anthony Barker (University of Aveiro)
On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film
Jacek Fabiszak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Sex-speare vs. Shake-speare: On Nudity and Sexuality in Some Screen and Stage Versions of Shakespeare’s Plays
Dana Bădulescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi)
Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie
MARGINALIA/MARGINALITIES
Bernth Lindfors (University of Texas at Austin)
The Lost Life of Ira Daniel Aldridge (Part 2)
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Soumitra Chakraborty (Mallabhum Institute of Technology)
Margin Speaks: Indian Dalit Literature. A Review of Writing as Resistance: Literature of Emancipation, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi
Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)
A Garden of Orismological Delights: A Review of the Fifth Edition of J.A. Cuddon’s A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, revised by M.A.R. Habib
Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź)
Reading Literature—Matters Still: A Review of Czytanie Literatury [Reading Literature], a journal of the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Łódź
“On the radio the pictures are better”
Dan Rebellato Interviewed by Michał Lachman
“This is for you”: Emotions, Language and Postcolonialism
Rukmini Bhaya Nair Speaks with Dorota Filipczak
Contributors
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