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

Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Rok wydania: 2015

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.

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Editorial
COLLECTING AND ARCHIVING
Aaron Angello (University of Colorado Boulder)
To Archive or Not to Archive: The Resistant Potential of Digital Poetry

Brygida Gasztold (Koszalin University of Technology)
The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language:
The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts

Anne Lovering Rounds (City University of New York)
Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse

PUBLISHING NORTH AMERICA
Norman Ravvin (Concordia University, Montreal)
Thoreau and Spadina Dreamers Unite:
Idealistic Communities in Canadian Publishing

Paulina Ambroży (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World:
Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels

Krzysztof Majer (University of Łódź)
“Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”:
Schlemiel (Meta)Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man

Bryan J. Zygmont (Clarke University, Dubuque)
Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon
and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion,
Science, and Art in Early-Federal America

Alicja Piechucka (University of Łódź)
“You Avenge the Others”: The Portrait of a Femme Fatale in Gladys
Huntington’s Madame Solario

Jacek Partyka (University of Białystok)
The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation

Justyna Fruzińska (University of Łódź)
From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience
in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth

Kacper Bartczak (University of Łódź)
Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens
and John Ashbery

Zbigniew Maszewski (University of Łódź)
“An Inner Comprehension of the Pueblo Indian’s Point of View”:
Carl Gustav Jung’s 1925 Visit to Taos, New Mexico

Katarzyna Małecka (University of Social Sciences, Łódź)
In Praise of Slacking: Richard Linklater’s Slacker
and Kevin Smith’s Clerks as Hallmarks of 1990s American
Independent Cinema Counterculture

Adam Sumera (University of Łódź)
Going to America to See the Fens Better?
Stephen Gyllenhaal’s Waterland

EXHIBITIONS
Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person

Dorota Filipczak (University of Łódź)
Framing Madame B : Quotation and Indistinction
in Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Video Installation

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Norman Ravvin (Concordia University, Montreal)
A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices
on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland

The Task of Attention
Sherry Simon (Concordia University) Talks to Krzysztof Majer
and Justyna Fruzińska (University of Łódź)

American Studies in Poland: A Collective Enterprise
An Interview with Agnieszka Salska by Jadwiga Maszewska
and Zbigniew Maszewski (University of Łódź)

Contributors