Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Andrzej Ceynowa, Marek Wilczyński -- Part I -- "Several of Nature's People/ I know and they know me":How American Women Poets Keep Meeting Strange and Wonderful Animals. Agnieszka Salska -- American Nature Writing and the Urban Experience. Joanna Durczak -- Forensic Imagination and the Materiality of Experience. Zofia Kolbuszewska -- Part II -- Nearing Thoreau. Tadeusz Rachwał -- Henry James and the Secret. Joseph Kuhn -- Henry James, Francis Parkman, and the Jesuits. Beata Williamson -- There is more than meets the (narratorial) I. On the narrator and the experience of fiction in Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle". Bartosz Lutostański -- Part III -- Forms of Power. Frost's Potraitsin North of Boston and Mountain Interval. Grzegorz Kość -- The American Sybils: Prophecy as a Modeof Fiction Writing. Paweł Stachura -- Desert(ed) Experience. John Steinbeck'sTravels with Charley and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Katarzyna Kuczma -- A Logic of Interruption. Experienceand Witnessing in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives. Tomasz Basiuk -- Confronting the Loss of the Dearest:Mark Doty, Assotto Saint, and the AIDS Elegy. Monika Wojdan -- Part IV -- The End of Neighbourhood: From a Shtetl to New York in Bernard Malamud's and Chaim Potok's Fiction. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich -- Introducing New Jewish Immigrants:Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis. Brygida Gasztold -- The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Alaska Made in Poland. Izabela Filipiak -- Traumas of the Past as the Experienceof the Present. Yuri Stulov -- Paule Marshall's Tripartite Experience in Triangular Road:A Memoir and Its Fictitious Reconstructions. Agnieszka Łobodziec -- Memory, Time and Transcendence in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Jørgen Veisland.

Indigenous Experience in the Americas:Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Deadand the Prophetic Retaking of Indian Country. Ewelina Bańka -- Part V -- Articulating the Time-Experience: Scientific and Parascientific Images of Time in Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo. Arkadiusz Misztal -- Suspension of Belief: Don DeLillo's 9/11. Ivan Delazari -- Captured LIVE!: Perception, Corporeality and the Televisual Apparatus in the Work of David Foster Wallace. Zuzanna Ładyga -- America as Home and Experience: A New Immigrants' Story in Aleksandar Hemon's Novel The Lazarus Project. Marta Koval -- "Delirious unknowing" - Periphery,Experience and Story-Telling in David Means's The Spot. Miłosz Wojtyna -- Bill Bryson's Search for Amalgam in The Lost Continent:Experiencing America of the Late 1980s. Agnieszka Kaczmarek -- Part VI -- Writers Abroad, Jesters Aboard.Mark Twain's and Henryk Sienkiewicz's Accounts of Their Journeys to Each Other's Continents. Marcin Jauksz -- NYC by Dorota Masłowska and Janusz Głowacki:Discovered or Reproduced? Yuliya Tkachuk -- Part VII -- The Hopperesque: A Pictorial Experience of America. Filip Lipiński -- Romantic View on Minimalism. American Art in the Context of American Experience. Małgorzata Lisiewicz -- Reality as Fiction/ Fiction as Reality:Larry Beinhart's Recording of the American Experience in Wag the Dog. Justyna Kociatkiewicz -- Iron Man Saves the Afghans. Marek Paryż -- Enemies, Tortures, and "Frontiersman" Heroes: Narratingthe War on Terror in American Film and Television Series (The Kingdom, Rendition, and 24). Aleksandra M. Różalska -- Part VIII -- On Blues Axiology. Grzegorz Welizarowicz -- The Monroe Doctrine Historically and Its Applications Today:Success or Failure? David A. Jones, Joanna Waluk.