Cover -- Table of contents -- Text, Interpreting and Editing -- Understanding and Explaining the Literary Text:A Return to Interpretation. Marcus Walsh -- Whose Clare? The Peasant Poet's Own Manuscript Versions of His Poems vs. Contemporaneous and Recent Editorial and Publishing Practice. Jacek Wiśniewski -- Bible Knowledge and Multi-Cultural Society. Carl Tighe -- Quests and Discoveries in Poetry -- "This unpolish'd, rugged verse":Epistemology in the Poetic Discourse of the Restoration. Przemysław Uściński -- Modernist Conflict or Fulfilment?The Poetry of T.S. Eliot. Anna Walczuk -- Perspectives in Theme.and Performance in Drama -- Byron's Cain: The Question of Voluntariness. Katarzyna Blacharska -- Love and Knowledge: On Eroticising the Moral Message in John Redford's Wit and Science.Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun -- Singing Regrettable Necessities- The Staging of Brendan Behan in Poland. Barry Keane -- Tigers, Viragos and Whores: Constructions of Female Monstrosity in Early Modern England. Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik -- From William Shakespeare's Hamlet,through Stanisław Wyspiański and Jan Kott,to Andrzej Wajda's Hamlet IV.Jadwiga Uchman -- Cleansing the Readings: A Study of Egoism and Derangement in Sarah Kane's Cleansed. Maciej Wieczorek -- The Imposition of Power and Beliefsin Postcolonial Irish Drama:An Analysis of Brian Friel's Translationsand Philadelphia, Here I Come!Joanna Zadarko -- Recurrent Themesand New Perceptions in Fiction -- Scottish Ghosts, English Wraiths:The Supernatural Imagination of Macpherson and Tolkien. Anna Bugajska -- Aporia of Time in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and "Kew Gardens"in the Light of Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics. Małgorzata Hołda -- Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol:"Such a Noble Meal". Aleksandra Kędzierska -- The Poetics of the English Gothic Novel in the Light of Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory. Joanna Piwowarska.

Literary Grotesque as a Therapy in G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. A Nightmare. Joanna Wasiak -- Exploding the Commonplace:T. F. Powys and the Short Story. Miłosz Wojtyna -- Old Challenges and New Horizons: Reality and Imagination in Patrick White's Fiction as Exemplified by Voss (1957) and Riders In The Chariot (1961). Ryszard W. Wolny -- Dialogue of Literature,Culture and History -- Uncivilised Boer Women and a Gentlemen's War -British Imperial Discourse in Selected Instances of Boer Women's Life Writing from the Anglo-Boer War(1899-1902).Małgorzata Drwal -- The Slippery Slope of American Jewishness:Defining a Jewish Hero. Anna Gawlikowska -- Exiles or Invaders? -Scottish and Acadian Diasporic Identities as Depicted in Contemporary Nova Scotian Literature. Barbara Kijek -- McEwan's Solar as a Comedy of Human Condition:On Hypocrisy, Global Warming and Plagiarism. Irena Księżopolska -- Womanist Transcendence of Racial and Gendered Nationalism and Universalism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Agnieszka Łobodziec -- Orientalism Reoriented: Old Challenges and New Horizons for Edward Said's Critical Legacy. Stankomir Nicieja -- Old Notions, New Ideas: The Kitchen as a Locus Memoriae in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. Anna Maria Tomczak.