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Visions and Revisions : Studies in Literature and Culture.
Title:
Visions and Revisions : Studies in Literature and Culture.
Author:
Czemiel, Grzegorz.
ISBN:
9783653048735
Personal Author:
Edition:
0
Physical Description:
1 online resource (340 pages)
Series:
Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures ; v.4

Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Part I - Poetry -- "Something to act out on a stage": Theatrum Mundi in John Donne's Poetry (Agnieszka Romanowska) -- Alfred Tennyson's Visions of the Otherworlds and the Vocation of the Poet (Ewa Młynarczyk) -- Ecocriticism and Romantic Ecology: Gilbert White and John Clare (Jacek Wiśniewski) -- War as Encounter: The Christmas Truce 1914 (Aleksandra Kędzierska) -- Trickster Discourse: The Figure of Whittrick in Edwin Morgan's Writing (Monika Kocot) -- Art in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings (Anna Walczuk) -- Visual Displacement and Shifts of Tone: On the Transformative Powers of Poetry in Recent Collections by Sinéad Morrissey and Zoë Skoulding (Grzegorz Czemiel) -- Words, Pictures and Windows: From Alberti to Derek Mahon (Jerzy Jarniewicz) -- Part II - Prose -- Re-Reading Great Expectations and Re-Thinking Its Genres: The Programmes of Illustration from 1860 through 1910 (Philip V. Allingham) -- The Bakhtinian Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (Aleksandra Tryniecka) -- The Vision of Brotherhood of Man in Charles Kingsley's Novel Alton Locke (Aleksandra Krajewska) -- The Strange Case of Mr. Paul Ferroll, A Gentleman and Murderer: The Victorian Vision of Gentlemanliness Revised (Marlena Marciniak) -- The Dionysian in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts (Katarzyna Sokołowska) -- "Destructive delight": Conceptual Blending in Charles Williams's Vision of Satanic Rituals in War in Heaven (Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk) -- Revisiting the Gothic Plot: Past-Oriented Suspense in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (Jacek Mydla) -- The Gothic Space Revisited (Anna Kędra-Kardela) -- Re-Visioning of the Romance Convention in the Novels by Sarah Waters (Barbara Klonowska) -- Mother London: Peter Ackroyd's Three Brothers (Marta Komsta).

"Doomed Queens" in a Changing Environment: Andrew Holleran's and Alan Hollinghurst's Literary Visions of Gay Clubbing Communities (Marcin Sroczyński) -- Part III - Culture -- How It Was, How It Is: Literary Histories across the Decades (Wojciech Nowicki) -- New Perspectives in the U.S. Space-Oriented Philosophy: Albert Harrison's American Cosmism as a Variation of the Russian Cosmist Thought (Kornelia Boczkowska) -- Pirate Neverland: Revisioning Pirates in Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet (Anna Bugajska) -- Brushed off Words: On Artists' Writings (Edyta Frelik) -- Filming the Experience of Gilead: Volker Schlöndorff's The Handmaid's Tale (Justyna Galant) -- "John Bull and Erin, the first a stout healthy boy and the latter his sister a very promising girl": Figaro in London and the Depiction of Ireland in the 1830s (Paweł Hamera) -- The Political Siding of Thomas Hobbes: Revision of Power in Leviathan (Pawel Kaptur) -- Puppies Sell: A Study of Selected Advertising Campaigns Featuring Animals (Eliza Marków) -- In the (Neo)Baroque Universe of Looped Voices: Lanford Wilson's Fugue Spectacle in The Hot l Baltimore (Agnieszka Matysiak) -- Revising the Traditional Model of Journalism in the Context of Digital Media (Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska) -- The Dystopian Grotesque in Enki Bilal's The Carnival of Immortals (Katarzyna Pisarska) -- Prospero Re-Imagined: The Character of Prospero in Modern Science Fiction (Aleksandra Szczypa) -- Catastrophe in Philosophy (Aristotle), Mathematics (René Thom) and Drama (Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett).
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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