Cover -- Contents -- InTRoduction -- Dark Ones. Animals and the Ends of Man -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- 7. -- 8. -- 9. -- 10. -- 11. -- 12. -- 13. -- 14. -- 15. -- 16. -- 17. -- 18. -- 19. -- 20. -- 21. -- 22. -- Works Cited -- Fi-sci -- Infinity as Paradox I -- Infinity as Paradox II -- Kaleidoscope -- Dimensional Relativity -- Metamorphosis I -- Metamorphosis II -- Seeing Nothing I -- Seeing Nothing II -- Coda -- Disordia of Paraphs & Obeli -- Paraphs: (applied science) -- Obeli: (theoretical science) -- ToN -- Fi-sci Universe -- Globalization and Cultural Studies: Conceptualization, Convergence, and Complication -- Work Cited -- Be Free! Globalism and Democratic Pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams -- Works Cited -- The Paranoid Mind: The (Im)possibility of Radical Change -- Works Cited -- "Culture": The Paradoxes of Anthropological Imagination -- Work Cited -- "See how they hurry to enter their bodies": Jorie Graham and the Move Beyond Modernism -- Work Cited -- "Harms & the child I sing": Stories of Loss and Self in John Berryman's The Dream Songs -- I. Constitutive Lack -- II. The Others -- Works Cited -- On the Verge of the (In-)Visible: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Work Cited -- "Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God…" -- but wherein do we arrive? Wordsworth's Approaches to Infinity -- Works Cited -- Land of the Grotesque: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001) and the "Orientalized" Image of the Post-Cold War Eastern Europe -- Works Cited -- Black Learning, Land, and Labor in Southern Reconstruction -- Works Cited -- "Almost a Joke": A Reading of Five Poems by Robert Frost -- Works Cited -- Redeemer Nations: Polish and American Romantic Rhetoric of Mission -- Works Cited -- Use of Humour in Holocaust-related Fiction by American and Polish Writers (Tova Reich and Igor Ostachowicz) -- Works Cited.

A Silenced Land: Comparative Literature in the Upper Silesian Context -- 1. Anxiety -- 2. Silence -- 3. Ellipses/Centralising Periphery -- Works Cited -- The Trauma of Multicultural Renunciation: Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field -- Works Cited -- The Linkage of Homosexuality and Death in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia -- Works Cited -- "Fearing That Which Need Not Be Feared?": A Gendered Reading of Agoraphobia -- Works Cited -- Can S/HE Become Normal? -- Works Cited -- Is There an Outside? -- Works Cited -- (Un)Homing Women: Domestic Politics in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Desertion -- Returning Home -- A Big House Like That -- Works Cited -- On Motion -- Works Cited -- The Scent of Happiness in the Sun -- Works Cited -- Monkey Tail -- Works cited.