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1 online resource |
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Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures ; v. 4 |
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Silesian studies in anglophone cultures and literatures.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface ; Part I -- Poetry ; "Something to act out on a stage": Theatrum Mundi in John Donne's Poetry (Agnieszka Romanowska); Alfred Tennyson's Visions of the Otherworlds and the Vocation of the Poet (Ewa Młynarczyk); Ecocriticism and Romantic Ecology: Gilbert White and John Clare (Jacek Wiśniewski); War as Encounter: The Christmas Truce 1914 (Aleksandra Kędzierska); Trickster Discourse: The Figure of Whittrick in Edwin Morgan's Writing (Monika Kocot); Art in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings (Anna Walczuk) |
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Visual Displacement and Shifts of Tone: On the Transformative Powers of Poetry in Recent Collections by Sinéad Morrissey and Zoë Skoulding (Grzegorz Czemiel)Words, Pictures and Windows: From Alberti to Derek Mahon (Jerzy Jarniewicz) ; Part II -- Prose; Re-Reading Great Expectations and Re-Thinking Its Genres: The Programmes of Illustration from 1860 through 1910 (Philip V. Allingham); The Bakhtinian Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (Aleksandra Tryniecka); The Vision of Brotherhood of Man in Charles Kingsley's Novel Alton Locke (Aleksandra Krajewska) |
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The Strange Case of Mr. Paul Ferroll, A Gentleman and Murderer: The Victorian Vision of Gentlemanliness Revised (Marlena Marciniak)The Dionysian in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (Katarzyna Sokołowska); "Destructive delight": Conceptual Blending in Charles Williams's Vision of Satanic Rituals in War in Heaven (Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk); Revisiting the Gothic Plot: Past-Oriented Suspense in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (Jacek Mydla); The Gothic Space Revisited (Anna Kędra-Kardela); Re-Visioning of the Romance Convention in the Novels by Sarah Waters (Barbara Klonowska) |
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Mother London: Peter Ackroyd's Three Brothers (Marta Komsta)"Doomed Queens" in a Changing Environment: Andrew Holleran's and Alan Hollinghurst's Literary Visions of Gay Clubbing Communities (Marcin Sroczyński); Part III -- Culture; How It Was, How It Is: Literary Histories across the Decades (Wojciech Nowicki); New Perspectives in the U.S. Space-Oriented Philosophy: Albert Harrison's American Cosmism as a Variation of the Russian Cosmist Thought (Kornelia Boczkowska); Pirate Neverland: Revisioning Pirates in Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet (Anna Bugajska) |
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Brushed off Words: On Artists' Writings (Edyta Frelik)Filming the Experience of Gilead: Volker Schlöndorff's The Handmaid's Tale (Justyna Galant); "John Bull and Erin, the first a stout healthy boy and the latter his sister a very promising girl": Figaro in London and the Depiction of Ireland in the 1830s (Paweł Hamera); The Political Siding of Thomas Hobbes: Revision of Power in Leviathan (Pawel Kaptur); Puppies Sell: A Study of Selected Advertising Campaigns Featuring Animals (Eliza Marków) |
| Summary |
Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the Victorian era and the modern times. Part two focuses on prose works representing such conventions and modes as the romance, the Gothic novel, the condition of England novel, Victorian and neo-Victorian fiction, the science fiction novel and gay fiction. Part three concerns various aspects of British and American culture, including the new media, drama and journalism, and advertising. In its diversity the volume reflects the dynamics of change in literature and culture, enabling the readers to investigate the multifaceted canon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- English-speaking countries
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Mass media and literature.
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Popular culture and literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Literature and society
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Mass media and literature
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Popular culture and literature
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English-speaking countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Czemiel, Grzegorz, editor
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Galant, Justyna Laura, 1980- editor.
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Kedra-Kardela, Anna, 1957- editor.
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Kędzierska, Aleksandra, editor
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Komsta, Marta, 1980- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783653048735 |
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3653048737 |
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