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Śmierć jako oczyszczenie duszy w twórczości Sarah Kane

Author(s): Michał Sadowski / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article draws attention to the reversal dominant that is the death in works of Sarah Kane. The scandalous writer presented a different kind of love and death. As a representative of „the Cool Britannia”in her plays engulfs the reader with the cruelty that is clean heroes and cause to the people woke upreal humanity. Is due to torture, disease, and death can save the world and its inhabitants? The writer as eloquent and innovative attempts to answer this question because of its small, but rich in creativity, prematurely terminated.

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The Single Girl in the City: Dialogues with Urban Realities in Contemporary Literature and TV Shows

Author(s): Vladislava Gordić Petković / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The so called “third wave” of the feminist movement, often termed postfeminism, is hardly a movement anymore with its strong depoliticisation of the feminist struggle, as it abandons the “sisterhood is powerful” creed for the new politics of singledom, which has elevated from a humiliating status to the new freedom of choice. Postfeminism is focused on individualism, since the collectivity has already managed to fulfil the political goals and demands. It is aware of marriage’s sordid social and economic history and there is no pressure to rush into tying the knot, as spinsterhood ceases to be a humiliating and dismal social and economical status. The single girl is a loaded figure in American cultural history, from Theodore Dreiser’s Carrie to Truman Capote’s Holy Golightly, from the Jazz age flappers to suffragists. She was missing from the popular culture in the 1980’s, but reemerged in the last decade of the millennium as the postfeminist woman came into the focus, portrayed either as frantic and fragile Ally McBeal, or as frisky thirtysomethings in “Sex and the City”. "Sex and the City" follows four fashionable and charismatic characters on their continuum of sexual conquests and relationship disillusionment, while "Gossip Girl" deals with teenage rebellion in the lives of privileged youngsters who are living life as equally to the full as their older counterparts in "Sex and the City". The single girl raises a few eyebrows, nowadays as well as in 1900: while Dreiser was accused of failing to place any moral judgment on Carrie’s lifestyle, the authors of the TV shows of today are criticised for casting women as overly sexual. The single girl in American literature is usually guided by self-interest, emotionally blank, and fond of material things, and the same tendency is shown in “Sex and the City”, whereas the characters from “Gossip Girl” are not eager to explore the opportunities the city affords, since they feel at home there. The paper will attempt to shed some light at the interrelations of the postfeminist role models in literature and TV shows and the urban life their growth is situated within.

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The Rogue and the Hooligan: Two Cultural Patterns in Dialogue

Author(s): Adina Ciugureanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The present paper aims at discussing the two cultural types, the rogue and the hooligan, not only as representative of a certain historical time, but also, and especially, as figures defining a specific typology in mainstream and popular literature. The so-called “loveable” rogue, a low-class character who impresses the reader through his selfless quest for an ideal in the seventeenth-, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century picaresque novel is resurrected in the twentieth century in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net, among others, while becoming an “anti-rogue”, I argue, in Lucky Jim and Hurry on Down. Meanwhile, the hooligan (from the Irish “hooley” or “hoolihan”), an unruly, anti-social young man, born in the late nineteenth-century England, becomes both the destructive person in popular sports and the alter-ego for the wondering Jew in fictional texts, such as Mihail Sebastian’s How I Became a Hooligan and Norman Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return. The talk is intended to find ways in which dialogism functions with the various types of rogue and hooligan and to discuss the hooligan type as a possible replacement for the rogue in recent exilic literature.

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First as Shakespeare, then as anime: Transcultural identity in Japanese popular culture

Author(s): Alice Teodorescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The power of popular culture to erase the border between fiction and reality is a point in “dialogue” for many studies of culture, media and society nowadays. One of its most successful forms, Japanese animation, widely known as anime (F. Schodt, 1997), is a productive subject for academic analysis and research as it departs from another strong cultural product (Japanese comics or manga), creates complex narrative universes and manages to have a global appeal, beyond nation, race, age and so on. As Susan Napier, a renowned Japanese popular culture researcher, underlines, anime can be considered “the Other of animation” that offers “an exhilarating vision of difference in which identity can be technological, mythological, or simply an ecstatic process of constant metamorphosis” and that can be defined as a strong form of expression “in the new transnational culture” (p.292, 2005). The current paper addresses the issues of “identity” and “Otherness” as stated above in order to tap into the larger debate on culture, globalization and transnational/transcultural flows and problematize concepts such as remediation (J. Bolter and R. Grusin, 2000), transmedia storytelling (H. Jenkins, 2006) or transfictionality (M.L. Ryan, 2013). Moreover, with a focus on Shakespeare’s plays or themes in anime adaptation, the larger context of intertextuality and interculturality will be tackled with, in order to offer various perspectives on the global world and the current role that Japanese popular culture as soft power is taking in today’s mediascape.

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Margaret Drabble’s Red Queen - An Attempt to Write across Cultures

Author(s): Irina Toma / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Focussing on the author’s assertion about “attempting to write across cultures”, the present paper aims at identifying those universal transcultural human characteristics that can be encountered both in the court memoirs of a Korean princess of more than two centuries ago and in the existential journey of a 20th century English academic. Drawing a rather obvious parallel between the destinies of two women situated so far apart from the historical, cultural and national point of view, Margaret Drabble has created a subtle intertwining of voices and motifs that transcends time and space, coming closer to the postmodern concept of Bahktin’s “dialogic novel”. Dialogism is present in the novel through the voices of many commentators and translators, all of whom have brought their own interpretations and imposed their personalities on the two heroines. Besides illustrating this postmodern concept, the novel unfolds against the constantly shifting dialogue of cultures, 18th century Korea versus 20thcentury Great Britain, without any of the two getting the better of the other. Taking into consideration the feminine/feminist approach dominating both the memoirs of the Crown Princess and the academic exploits of Babs Halliwell, the English lecturer, the paper aims at emphasizing those universal aspects lying at the core of all human beings, all over time and space, aspects that transcultural dialogue alone is likely to evince.

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Inter-standing Bodies in Early Modern British Culture

Author(s): Ana Maria Tolomei / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

My paper aims at the analysis of dialogue as a form of recuperation while re-shaping and re-organising physical and non-physical bodies (either social, political or moral) in need of a “treatment” in Early Modern British and French Cultures. This kind of dialogue implies movement starting from under-standing to inter-standing and from curing to preserving private and public, individual and collective, dominant and dissident bodies in ordinary or extra-ordinary circumstances. I am interested in the way in which bodies as cultural constructs can be activated or re-activated in a Bakhtinian dialogical manner. I am also interested in the way in which “speaking with the dead” represents in Greenblatt’s view a manifestation of the circulation of the14social energy within written and visual texts. Furthermore, my inquiry leads to the analysis of the images of the self and the other, of the centre and the margins through cultural, national or religious clichés. The physical and non-physical bodies of the self and the other as well as bodily ornaments can also be interpreted from the Derridian perspective of the double-edged “pharmakon” as both “remedy” and “poison” as well as “artificial” and “natural” cultural constructs.

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Śmierć w opowiadaniach Hemingwaya Obóz indiański, Krótkie szczęśliwe życie Franciszka Macombera i Rogi byka

Author(s): Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Author(s): Zbigniew Maszewski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

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Nie taki Hemingway poważny, jak go malują. Humor w Listach młodego Hemingwaya

Author(s): Kamil Chrzczonowicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

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Eliot’s Christianity in a Contemporary Perspective

Author(s): Małgorzata Grzegorzewska / Language(s): English

The book offers an analysis of Christian threads in T.S. Eliot’s poetry from the perspectives of World War II, the Holocaust and today’s crisis of Christianity in Western culture. The two most important motifs in the poet’s work are discussed: the issue of the Word made Flesh and the divine love – agape. This book looks into the conversation between literature and religion in the work of T.S. Eliot. It focuses on the figures of John the Baptist and the (Holy) Fool in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the Wise Men in Journey of the Magi and the ʻwounded surgeon’ in East Coker, all of whom point to Eliot’s ongoing concern, both before and after his conversion, with the ‘hint half guessed, the gift half understood’ of poetic incarnation: words made living and suffering flesh. This concern anchors Eliot’s poems in the idea of the Logos as Second Person, which has shaped Western cultures of reading over more than two millennia. It also reverberates in the works of the British and Polish poets invoked here alongside Eliot: W.H. Auden, E. Jennings, R.S. Thomas, G. Hill, K.K. Baczyński and Z. Herbert.

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Classical Mythology and Children's Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey

Author(s): Elizabeth Hale,Miriam Riverlea / Language(s): English

The book takes readers on a journey through the oceans of children’s books inspired by ancient Greek and Roman mythology. The 26 chapters (arranged alphabetically) discuss elements important in literature for young readers, providing insights into how mythical adaptations, retellings, and allusions connect with aspects of childhood and adolescence.

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