Text Matters

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No. 9 (2019): Roguery & (Sub)Versions

edited by Aritha van Herk and Vanja Polić

Increase in the contribution of foreign reviewers in the assessment of articles submitted for publication in the yearly “Text Matters. A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture” – financed under Agreement No. 605/P-DUN/2019 12.06.2019 with funds provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for activities popularising science.

Published: 2019-11-04

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Articles

A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s "The Songlines" Reconsidered

Christine Nicholls

22-49
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Of Grim Witches and Showy Lady-Devils: Wealthy Women in Literature and Film

Veronika Schuchter

50-65
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“You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s "Monster" as Rogue Cinema

Michelle D. Wise

66-80
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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"

Kornelia Boczkowska

81-99
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Roguish Self-Fashioning and Questing in Aleksandar Hemon’s “Everything”

Jason Blake

100-117
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“Same Old Ed, . . . Uncommitted”: BMW Socialism and Post-Roguery in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s Early Fiction

Jordan Bolay

118-136
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Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature

Ronnie Scott

137-152
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The Rogue as an Artist in Patrick deWitt’s "The Sisters Brothers"

Hilde Staels

153-166
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The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance

Mark Metzler Sawin

167-184
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Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes

Kit Dobson

185-196
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“Let me hear Thy voice”: Michèle Roberts’s Refiguring of Mary Magdalene in the Light of The Song of Songs

Dorota Filipczak

199-212
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Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful

Marta Zając

213-222
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Joe Brainard’s "I Remember", Fragmentary Life Writing and the Resistance to Narrative and Identity

Wojciech Drąg

223-236
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“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s "The Glorious Heresies" (2015) and "The Blood Miracles" (2017)

Katarzyna Ostalska

237-258
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Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s "Black Money"

Lech Zdunkiewicz

259-270
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Spaces of (Re)Connections: Performing Experiences of Disabling Gender Violence

Nicole Fayard

273-291
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On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing

Monika Kocot

292-315
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What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma

Tomasz Fisiak

316-327
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“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"

Agata Handley

331-344
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Liminal Space in J. G. Ballard’s "Concrete Island"

Marcin Tereszewski

345-355
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Don DeLillo’s "White Noise": A Virilian Perspective

Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Bahareh Bagherzadeh Samani

356-373
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Theater Without a Script—Improvisation and the Experimental Stage of the Early Mid-Twentieth Century in the United States

Magdalena Szuster

374-392
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Other

New Versions of Roguery

Aritha van Herk, Vanja Polić

9-21
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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)

Wit Pietrzak

395-402
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Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis

Mark Tardi

403-407
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Increase in the contribution of foreign reviewers in the assessment of articles submitted for publication in the yearly “Text Matters. A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture” – financed under Agreement No. 605/P-DUN/2019 12.06.2019 with funds provided by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for activities popularising science.