BEYOND WORDS: CROSSING BORDERS IN ENGLISH STUDIES. Vol. 1

CONTENTS:

Preface

• Michael Irwin - Literature and the Moon

• Terence McCarthy - Much Ado About Not: Crossing Arthurian Borders

• Wayne Franklin - Fenimore Cooper's "Indians" and the "Category of Human Rights"

• Christoph Houswitschka - Crossing Eastern Borders in English Literature

• Krystyna Strzebońska - Fear and Fame: Crossing the Threshold of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry

• María Beatriz Hernández Pérez - By the Window Sill: Margery Kempe and the Art of Praying

• Martha Oberle - What Have We Here? The Gifts of the Shepherds in Prima and Secunda Pastorum

• Dominika Ruszkiewicz - "Welcum of Scotland to be Quene": Margaret Tudor in the Poetry of Her Time

• Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik - "A Signe of Discontent": Free Speech, Silence and Treason in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam

• Joanna Maciulewicz - The Representation of Print Culture in Areopagitica, The Battle of the Books and The Dunciad

• Anna Bugajska - Singleton, Or, There and Back Again: The (Mono)myth of a Pirate

• Joel Burnell - Jonathan Edwards and the Beauty of Work: A Colonial American Argument for Social Responsibility in the Workplace

• Ib Johansen - Tricksters in Philosophy and Fiction: From William Blake to the Postmodern Age

• Anna Paluchowska-Messing - Probing with Words at What Lies Beyond Them: Frances Burney's Mastectomy Narrative

• Anna Stanisz - The Semantics of Sense & Sensibility: The Meaning of the Title Words in Jane Austen's Novel

• Monika Mazurek - Roman Catholicism as the Uncanny in the Victorian Protestant Novel

• Agata Kowol - "The Charm of the Universal Experience from which One Expects an Uncommon and Personal Sensation": Pursuit of Self-Knowledge in Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line

• Caterina Maria Grasl - (Un)writing Imperial Minds: Mental Images, Narrative Strategy, and Anti-Imperialism in Selected Novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Damian Podleśny - Beyond the Border of Cognition: Deception, Paranoia, and Conspiracy Theories in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick

• Monika Kozub - Northern Voices: Stewart Parker

• Magdalena Wąsowicz - "It's Vital to Remember Always That You Are Hungarian": The Role of Cultural Memory in The Storyteller by Anna Porter

• Maciej Wieczorek - "None of This Is the Truth, It's Just People Saying Things": Blurring the Border Between the Fictional and the Real in Dennis Kelly's Taking Care of Baby

• Aleksandra Tryniecka - Syrie James' The Secret Diaries of Charloe Brontë and the Biography Retold: Reducing the Distance Between the Reader and the Past

• Barbara Poważa-Kurko - Philip Pullman's Version of the Gospels in The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

• Marek Pawlicki - Crossing Borders of the Self: Confessional Discourse in John Banville's Eclipse and Ancient Light

• Zygmunt Mazur - Missing "the Noun for Standing in Mist by a Haunted Tree": Language and Loss in W.S. Merwin's The Rain in the Trees

• Bartosz Stopel - The Limits of Literary Language: Analytic Aesthetics and Cognitive Approaches to Literature