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

Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Rok wydania: 2014

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 Sinéad 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.

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Editorial

A Special Guest of Text Matters
Mieke Bal: “Writing with Images”
A Conversation—Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)

RE-VISIONING RICOEUR AND KRISTEVA
Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford)
Lost Confidence and Human Capability: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Gendered, yet Capable Subject

Małgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw)
“Eyes wide shut”: Paul Ricoeur’s Biblical Hermeneutics and the Course of Recognition in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Laurie Anderson Sathe (St. Catherine University, Minneapolis)
To Look at Things as if They Could Be Otherwise: Educating the Imagination

John Crowley-Buck (Loyola University, Chicago)
Testimony, Responsibility and Recognition: A Ricoeurian Response to Crises of Sexual Abuse

Stephanie Arel (Boston University)
Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection

Grzegorz Czemiel (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin)
“When China Meets China”: Sinéad Morrissey’s Figurations of the Orient, or the Function of Alterity in Julia Kristeva and Paul Ricoeur

Joshua Roe (University of Oxford)
Kristeva: The Individual, the Symbolic and Feminist Readings of the Biblical Text

Sylvie Gambaudo (University of Durham)
Kristeva, Ethics and Intellectual Practice

Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)
Abjection and Sexually Specific Violence in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft

Alison Jasper (University of Stirling)
Taking Sides on Severed Heads: Kristeva at the Louvre

Agnieszka Łowczanin (University of Łódź)
Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic

CONTINUITIES: EROTICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Małgorzata Dąbrowska (University of Łódź)
A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred

IRISH THEMES
Jan Jędrzejewski (University of Ulster)
Anthologizing Sir Samuel Ferguson: Literature, History, Politics

Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź)
Recalling All the Olympians: W. B. Yeats’s “Beautiful Lofty Things,” On the Boiler and the Agenda of National Rebirth

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Michael D’Angeli
A Review of Christina M. Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy

The Privilege to Write What You Want
Roddy Doyle Talks to Joanna Kosmalska (University of Łódź)

Goodbye Polsko, Hello Anglio
Joanna Czechowska Speaks with Joanna Kosmalska (University of Łódź)

Contributors