| dc.description.abstract | 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 after Henry Louis Gates that orality of black cultures is responsible for the lack of Black Aesthetics. Joanna Dybiec-Gajer devoted her article to Mark Twain’s Polish translations. She outlines “the translation history, publication policy and reception of Twain and his oeuvre in the Polish context.” Agnieszka Gicala focuses on the historical framework of The Cloud of Unknowing by “following the tradition of negation in Christian mysticism.” Paweł Kaptur deals with the Restoration period by analyzing two poems of Dryden Astrea Redux and To His Sacred Majesty. Wojciech Majka in his article “looks at the phenomenon of history from a typically phenomenological perspective.” Monika Mazurek touches the problem of reflecting Elizabethan times in Victorian historical novels. Przemysław Michalski makes an attempt at showing that William Shakespeare was familiar with poems of Philip Larkin. Marku Salmela suggests some possible functions of the grotesque in naturalistic fiction by examining Stephen Crane’s novella “The Monster”. Maria Luisa Venegas Lagüéns concentrates on Ella Hepworth Dixon – a new woman writer of the fin-de-siècle who had to give up her dream of becoming an artist and conform to the demands of society. Artur Piskorz outlines the filmic representations of the terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. Paweł Hamera explains “how the Irish State Trials and the events leading to them were depicted in Punch and The Illustrated London News.” Andrzej K. Kuropatnicki writes about ale and beer, the staple drinks in medieval and early modern England. Finally, Mariusz Misztal presents and discusses archival sources connected with Churchill's important visit to Cyprus in 1907. | en |
