Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 175. Studia Anglica 4

Abstract

Many texts jostle for attention in this collection of articles focused around literary and cultural studies. Ewa Panecka endeavours to establish the significance of the mood of “loss made good” in the poetry of two “poets of nature,” namely John Clare and Edward Thomas. Małgorzata Hołda analyses two pieces of gothic fiction: Washington Irving’s The Adventure of the German Student and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat, both of which “execute numerous transgressions in meaning and shackle the text’s seeming coherence in different ways.” Małgorzata Kowalcze, in ‘A Knight of Faith’ Looking into the Face of the Other, presents opinion that William Golding’s The Spire combines two dissimilar viewpoints of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean Paul Sartre by showing a story of a man, “who undergoes an existential transformation from Kierkegaard’s ‘knight’ through Sartre’s ‘being’ arriving at Levinas’s ‘self’ by means of intricate relationships with other people and a process of painful himself-discovery.” Marek Kucharski analyses religious motifs in artistic work of Andy Warhol with special interest in his travesty of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Monika Mazurek focuses on Victorian period and deals with the issue of the legitimacy of the Church of England, using examples from William Sewell’s Hawkstone, Elizabeth Missing Sewell’s Margaret Percival and John H. Shorthouse’s John Inglesant. Paweł Hamera examines the ways Ireland and the Irish were portrayed in The Times at the time of Great Irish Famine. Finally, poetry re-emerges in the essay by Przemysław Michalski’s, who investigates the kenotic potential of ekphrastic poetry by investigating three poems, written by Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder and Czesław Miłosz, respectively.