ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS. VOLUME 1. LITERATURE

Contents:

Preface

Valentine Cunningham
This is the Place: Literary Knowing and Not Knowing

Dominika Ruszkiewicz
The Meeting of the English and Scottish Cultures in The Kingis Quair by James I of Scotland

Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa
Poland and Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Re-Examination

Maciej Piątek
Spectropoematics, or How to Talk with Ghosts

Enrico Benella
What Women Want, or the Loathly Lady and the Invisible Stage

Anna Bugajska
The King of Dunces and a Simple Child

Anna Miegoń
Literary History, The Ladies’ Diary and the Enigma Poem

Wenjuan Yuan
Toward a Cognitive Account of Wordsworth’s Immersion into Nature

Monika Mazurek
Religious Dialogue or Monologue? George Borrow’s Encounters with the Other in the Iberian Peninsula

Anthony Barker
The Afterlife in Film and Media of Dickens’s Ebenezer Scrooge

Ildiko Domotor
Home Among the Gum Trees: Colonial Gentlewomen’s Attitude Towards the Australian Flora and Fauna

Agnieszka Setecka
“The fashion of our enemies across the Channel”: Representations of French Fashions in Dinah Craik’s and Mary Haweis’s Writing

Maria Perzyńska
“Is not this something more than idle play”: Reverie in Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

Barbara Rumbinas
Dying To Be True: Allegory and Symbolism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish

Sylvain Belluc
Giving Dublin to the World: James Joyce’s Linguistic Claim to Universality in Dubliners

Przemysław Michalski
A Brief Examination of Iserian Aesthetics in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Piotr Podemski
British and Foreign Inspirations in Oswald Mosley’s “The Greater Britain” (1932)

Caterina Novak
Reading the Victorian Nightmare: A Cognitive Approach to Marghanita Laski’s The Victorian Chaise-Longue (1953)

Paul Titchmarsh
Authority and Authenticity: The Private and the Public in Robert Lowell’s Poetry

Joanna Dybiec-Gajer
Touristic Modes of Travel Experience in Mark Twain’sInnocents Abroad and Zbigniew Herbert’s Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie

Michał Palmowski
The Mexican Dream: The Image of Mexico in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Roya Yaghoubi
“Lost in the Funhouse”: The Author’s Funhouse/“Prisonhouse” of Language

Robert Kusek
Autrebiography versus Autobiography in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg

Dominika Lewandowska
Picturing London: Robert Frank’s Photography and Iain Sinclair’s Prose

Ewa Kowal
The Novel and the Internet: William Gibson’s Post-9/11 Novel Pattern Recognition

Nina Liewald
The Possibilities of “Hybridity” and Multiculturalism in a Globalised World: Hanif Kureishi’s England from the 1970s till Today

Joanna Maciulewicz
“To Live Otherwise on the Page”: The Irreconcilability of the Stories of Empire in David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress

Maria Błaszkiewicz
“Beware of Trojans, the complete smeg-heads!” Cultures in Contact:The Mock Epic, the Contemporary British Fantastic and the Trojan War