Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Film Adaptations: Theories, and New/Old Dilemmas (Andrzej Weselinski) -- Polanski and Nazar: The Correspondences between Their Screen Versions of Shakespeare's Macbeth (Jacek Fabiszak) -- Same but Different: Comparing Transgression in Sleuth (Agnieszka Rasmus) -- Re-Writing Ophelia: Iconography of Madness and Death in Bryony Lavery's and Deborah Levy's Plays (Edyta Lorek-Jezinska) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shakespeare's Ophelia - textual and visual implications -- 3. Ophelia's story: authorship and intertextual imprisonment -- 4. Madness, anger and conflict -- 5. Water symbolism and the death frame -- 6. Conclusion -- Acts of Verbal and Visual Iconoclasm in Postcolonial Drama: Explorations of Helen Gilbert's Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (Grzegorz Koneczniak) -- Introduction -- 1. Acts of iconoclasm against postcolonial establishments and authorities -- 2. Acts of iconoclasm against (post)colonial femininity -- 3. Acts of iconoclasm against (post)colonial agency and subjectivity -- From Orality to Visuality: Enactments of Neo-Colonialism in The Hungry Earth by Maishe Maponya and Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor (Grzegorz Koneczniak) -- Introduction -- 1. The oral and the visual in The Hungry Earth -- 2. The visual and the oral in Ubu and the Truth Commission -- Conclusion -- Juxtaposition, Being and Primary Analogate: An Introduction to the Metaphysical Concept of Metaphor on the basis of Old Irish Poetry (Waclaw Grzybowski) -- 1. The poetic evidence -- 2. Thesis -- 3. Analogy in "Invocation" -- 4. Analogy in "Amirgin's Challenge" -- 5. What is metaphysical in poetic metaphor? -- 6. "Lúireach Phádraig" -- 7. Conclusion -- Verbal and Visual Correspondencesin Wyndham Lewis's The TyroDominika Buchowska -- 1. Attempts to revive Vorticist aesthetics: From BLAST to The Tyro.

2. The significance of Lewis's Tyro figures -- 3. Word and image interplay in The Tyro -- 4. T. S. Eliot and The Tyro -- 5. Other literary contributions to The Tyro -- 6. Tyro 2 and its visual aesthetics -- 7. Visual language of Lewis's "Bestre" -- 8. John Rodker's utopian setting for the Tyros -- 9. Conclusion -- Real, Surreal, Hyperreal: Photography and the Novel according to Henry James, André Breton, and W.G. Sebald (Miroslawa Buchholtz) -- Frontispieces -- Collages -- Snapshots -- Conclusion -- Stefan Themerson as a Polish Artist and an English Writer (Rod Mengham) -- Auster, Calle and the Conceptual Origins of EkphrasisJaros aw Hetman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual, conceptuality, representational and non-representational -- 3. Ekphrasis - a study of difference -- 4. The power of the word -- 5. From description to interpretation -- 7. Sophie Calle versus Maria Turner. The persona and the character -- 8. Representation versus documentation. On the indispensability of form -- 9. The word, the image and the thought in between -- 10. Conceptual ekphrasis -- 11. Post Scriptum -- 12. Conclusion -- The Role of Visual Portraits in Biographical Studies: Imag(in)ing Henry James (Miroslawa Buchholtz) -- Prologue -- Act II. Scene One -- Act IV. Scene Two -- Act IV. Scene Four -- Act V. Scene One -- Epilogue -- Notes on Contributors.