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Churchill's visit to Cyprus in 1907: enosis and constitutional issues
(2013)Churchill, when still a young politician, in October 1907 visited Cyprus in his capacity of under- -secretary of state for the colonies. The island de jure belonged still to the Ottoman Empire, but since 1878 it had been ... -
Ale and beer as staple drinks in medieval and early modern England
(2013)Ale has been known in Britain for ages. The Celts produced a porridge-like concoction with various herbs added. The Anglo-Saxons brewed a variety of ales and many of the English terms used in brewing are of Anglo-Saxon ... -
The 1840s Irish State Trials and their depiction in the two english ilustrated periodicals: Punch, or the London Charivari and The Illustrated London News
(2013)One of the events that received extensive and widespread coverage in the English press in the first half of the nineteenth century was the arrest and the subsequent trial of the Irish liberator and emancipist Daniel ... -
From 9/11 to 7/7 and beyond: film and fear
(2013)From 9/11 to 7/7 and Beyond outlines the filmic representations of the terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. The author divides the films into five possible categories (TV documentaries, conspiracy documentaries, ... -
New woman subversion and autobiography: Ella Hepworth Dixon
(2013)New women writers of the fin-de-siècle broke loose from conventional Victorian narrative forms, structures and topics in many ways, thus opening a road to modernism. However, it was no easy task for them to deal with ... -
Naturalistic addacement: The grotesque in Stephen Crane's The Monster
(2013)Disfigured, exaggerated, and animal-like characters can be considered a staple in American literary naturalism. From Frank Norris’s slow-witted, bullish McTeague to the tortured victim of mob justice in Theodore Dreiser’s ... -
Measure for measure or: on the influence of Philip Larkin on William Shakespeare
(2013)As Slavoj Žižek claims, Shakespeare’s Richard II clearly shows that the Bard was well familiar with the work of the French philosopher, Jacques Lacan. In my paper I will try to demonstrate that he was also well acquainted ... -
Charles Kingsley's Westward ho! as the protestant foundation myth
(2013)The historical novel was one of the most widely read genres in popular Victorian literature; however, Victorian writers who set their novels in the past did so not only because of the adventure potential and the colourful ... -
History and the essencing of the world
(2013)The article looks at the phenomenon of history from a typically phenomenological perspective. This means that history is seen as much more than a way in which we have learnt to represent the past from the point of view ... -
The hopes of regeneration in John Dryden’s early restoration poems
(2013)Cromwell’s death and the ineffective rule of his son Richard led to the inevitable decision made by the English government – Charles II was to be restored to secure social stability and royal continuity. When in January ... -
The cloud of unknowing: the orgin of its imagery in the judeo-christian spiritual tradition
(2013)The present work shows the origins of the eponymous metaphor of a cloud in a book called The Cloud of Unknowing, a masterpiece written by an anonymous 14th-century English mystic. The book is of great religious and ... -
The making of Mark Twain in the polish context - on the author's 100th death anniversary
(2013)2010 marked the hundredth anniversary of Mark Twain’s death and thus constituted a good opportunity to reflect upon the author’s reception outside of the English speaking countries. This article discusses reception of ... -
Southern harlequinade and 'The signifying monkey': The (Un-) Know world of Edward P. Jones
(2013)From the white man’s perspective, The Known World, written by an African American author, does not only introduce readers to the little known world of free black slaveholding in the ante-bellum South but also to an even ... -
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 136. Studia Anglica 3
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków, 2013)The volume contains a selection of articles dealing with a variety of topics focused around literary and cultural studies. Grażyna Branny takes the reader to The (Un) Known World of Edward P. Jones. The author concludes ...
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