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Stranger Than Fiction: Gothic Intertextuality in Shakespears Sister’s Music Videos

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Fisiak T.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2020

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issue 10

194-208

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The following article is going to focus on a selection of music videos by Shakespears Sister, a British indie pop band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit, which rose to prominence in the late 1980s. This article scrutinizes five of the band’s music videos: “Goodbye Cruel World” (1991), “I Don’t Care” (1992), “Stay” (1992), “All the Queen’s Horses” (2019) and “When She Finds You” (2019; the last two filmed 26 years after the duo’s turbulent split), all of them displaying a strong affinity with Gothicism. Fahey and Detroit, together with director Sophie Muller, a long-time collaborator of the band, have created a fascinating world that skillfully merges references to their tempestuous personal background, Gothic imagery, Hollywood glamour and borrowings from Grande Dame Guignol, a popular 1960s subgenre of the horror film. Grande Dame Guignol is of major importance here as a genre dissecting female rivalry and, thus, reinterpreting a binary opposition of the damsel in distress and the tyrant, an integral element of Gothic fiction. Therefore, the aim of the article is not only to trace the Gothic references, both literary and cinematic, but also to demonstrate how Shakespears Sister’s music videos reformulate the conventional woman in peril-villain conflict.

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Queer gothic – queer modernism

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Sobolczyk P.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2014

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issue 24

71-93

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The article discusses the motifs of queerness (homosexuality) in classical (English) Gothic novels and indicates a parallel with the modern practices of reading and writing queerness. Additionally, it defines the place of queer Gothic on the map of queer Modernism at the turn of the 19th century and in the 20th century. Simultaneously, he poses a question about the reason for pushing this aesthetics to the margins of that whichis “highly artistic”, or its presence only in the mainstream – basically through pastiche, grotesque, stylization or the sole use of formal elements in a polyphonic or Silva rerum structure.

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Co to jest gotycyzm? Rec.: Gotycyzm w literaturze i kulturze lat 1760–1830. Pod redakcją Marcina Cieńskiego i Pawła Pluty. Warszawa 2020

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Bąkowska P.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2022

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vol. 113

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issue 3

277-292

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Wieloautorska monografia „Gotycyzm w literaturze i kulturze lat 1760–1830” przynosi interesujące rozważania dotyczące trudno uchwytnego zjawiska w jego różnorodnych inkarnacjach. Książka składa się z 27 rozpraw poprzedzonych wprowadzeniem wstępnie porządkującym kwestie związane z określonym w tytule tematem. Na szczególną uwagę zasługuje to, że monografia rzuca nowe światło na zagadnienia, które w rodzimych badaniach – choć sygnalizowane – nie zyskały jak dotąd gruntownych opracowań.

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The co-authored monograph “Gotycyzm w literaturze i kulturze lat 1760–1830” (“Gothicism in Literature and Culture 1760–1830”, 2020) offers interesting considerations about this scarcely perceptible issue in its various incarnations. The book contains 27 treatises preceded by an introduction that initially sorts out the problems connected with the subject included in the title. Special attention is directed to the fact that the monograph sheds new light on the issues, however signalled in Polish research, have so far gained no insightful studies.

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„Drogi, które idą...” O rzekach Kraszewskiego (wstępne rozpoznanie)

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Owczarz E.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2015

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issue 5(8)

231-251

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The rivers of Polesia and Volhynia (the Horyn, Styr, Sluch, Pina, Prypiat Rivers and other) are analysed in the present paper as waterways which bring along modernity and carry it further inland on the one hand, and on the other, as guards of patriarchal hierarchies, which according to Orgelbrand’s Encyclopedia, are equivalent to a civilization referred to as moral, affirming simplicity, religion, and selfless relations with others. In the descriptions of places which constitute Kraszewski’s autobiography (travelogues, memoirs, letters, journalistic and fiction works) one may observe a kind of internal tension of the perceiving subject, who continues to value antiquity, but notices with certain nostalgia the anachronism of the world “at the banks of great rivers” and recognises the need for civilizational transformation.

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Death and Two Maidens (No More): A Gothic Friendship

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Fisiak T.

Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny

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2018

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issue 2

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Dlaczego preromantyzm? Literatura przełomu XVIII i XIX stulecia w terminologii historyka literatury

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Pluta P.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 1: Literatura polska

39-52

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Artykuł jest próbą spojrzenia na znaczenie terminu „preromantyzm” przez pryzmat funkcjonowania tego pojęcia w tekstach literaturoznawczych. Przedmiotem analizy są rozprawy zamieszczone w przygotowanych przez Alinę Aleksandrowicz i Ewę Grzędę dwóch książkach naukowych, które dzieli data wydania (1991 i 2007), charakter publikacji (tom zbiorowy i autorska antologia utworów literackich), łączy natomiast użycie w formule tytułowej terminu „preromantyzm”. Rekonstruowane w toku rozważań sensy terminu „preromantyzm” odsyłają do zjawisk estetyczno-literackich, które mają w nauce o literaturze swoje nazwy: „sentymentalizm”, „gotycyzm”, „osjanizm” czy „rokoko”. Materiałem uzupełniającym bądź porównawczym dla formułowanych wniosków są spostrzeżenia innych badaczy literatury (T. Kostkiewiczowa, A. Kowalczykowa, J. Krzyżanowski, Z. Libera, J. Lyszczyna, J. Maciejewski), którzy problem preromantyzmu rozpatrywali wcześniej.

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The article is an attempt to look at the meaning of the term “pre-Romanticism” through the prism of its functioning in literary texts. The subject of analysis are texts published in two book by Alina Aleksandrowicz and Ewa Grzęda. The two books are different in terms of the date (1991 and 2007) and the nature of the publication (collective volume and author’s anthology of literary works), but also linked to each other through the use of the term pre-Romanticism in their titles. The reconstructed senses of the term pre-Romanticism refer to aesthetic and literary phenomena which have their specific names in literary studies: Sentimentalism, Gothicism, Ossianism or Rococo. The observations of other literary researchers (T. Kostkiewiczowa, A. Kowalczykowa, J. Krzyżanowski, Z. Libera, J. Lyszczyna, J. Maciejewski), who previously considered the problem of pre-Romanticism, constitute a complementary or comparative material for the formulated conclusions.

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