• Churchill's visit to Cyprus in 1907: enosis and constitutional issues 

  Misztal, Mariusz (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 

  Kuropatnicki, Andrzej K. (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 

  Hamera, Paweł (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 

  Piskorz, Artur (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 

  Lagüéns, Maria Luisa Venegas (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 

  Salmela, Marku (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 

  Michalski, Przemysław (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 

  Mazurek, Monika (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 

  Majka, Wojciech (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 

  Kaptur, Paweł (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 

  Gicala, Agnieszka (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 

  Dybiec-Gajer, Joanna (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 

  Branny, Grażyna (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 

  Misztal, Mariusz; Kuropatnicki, Andrzej K. (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 ...

• Lexicalization and idiomaticity of English fixed expressions and their Polish translations 

  Witalisz, Alicja (2012)

  Artykuł omawia procesy leksykalizacji semantycznej, jakie zachodzą w nowopowstałych związkach frazeologicznych. W wyniku procesów formalnych i semantycznych syntagma słowotwórcza traci status słowa złożonego z dwóch lub ...

• Unpacking a Blend: the Process of Demetaphorization from the Cognitive Perspective 

  Gicala, Agnieszka (2012)

  Niniejszy artykuł jest próbą ujęcia – z perspektywy, jaką oferuje językoznawstwo kognitywne – zjawiska demetaforyzacji, czyli wydobycia dosłownego znaczenia metafory. Według autorki, zjawisko to ujawnia się w metaforach ...

• The role of semantic factors in passivization: a usage-based study 

  Podhorodecka, Joanna (2012)

  Celem niniejszej pracy jest zbadanie, jakie czynniki mają wpływ na częstotliwość pasywizacji czasowników w języku angielskim. Na podstawie danych z korpusu językowego The British National Corpus, autorka bada dwa angielskie ...

• The structure of the noun phrase in English and Polish 

  Kucelman, Ewa (2012)

  Według najnowszych teorii, grupa imienna stanowi część składową większej frazy, zwanej frazą przedimkową (DP). W języku angielskim obowiązują ścisłe zasady określające pozycję poszczególnych elementów tworzących frazę ...

• Separating the inseparable: acceptability of violations of strict adjacency in English 

  Ścibior-Gajewska, Anna (2012)

  W języku angielskim bardzo silny jest związek składniowy pomiędzy czasownikiem a jego dopełnieniem. W gramatyce transformacyjno-generatywnej związek ten reguluje zasada „strict adjacency”, czyli „bezpośredniego sąsiedztwa”. ...

• $L_1$ - and $L_2$ - induced misanalysis of the sound and suprasegmental structure in Philology Students' English 

  Buczek-Zawiła, Anita (2012)

  Artykuł bada przypadki błędnej wymowy studentów filologii angielskiej, koncentrując się nie na podstawianiu dźwięków polskich w miejsce angielskich, a na ważnym aspekcie prozodii jakim jest akcent wyrazowy. Z przeprowadzonych ...

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