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This book presents a collection of essays discussing a history of
the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and
Labyrinth in twentieth-century literature. The author traces their
transformations against the wider backdrop of Polish and European
literature. The book is an excellent, thought-provoking lesson in
understanding the signs of contemporary culture and a fascinating
journey through its complex trails.
Following the evolution of Ciaran Carson's work, this book aims to
trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be
discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming
these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the
author delineates, using deconstruction, how they inform and
structure Carson's poetic oeuvre. Further thematic analyses focus
on three major themes: memory, city and history, adopting various
critical approaches, among them New Historicism and psychoanalysis.
Finally, taking cue from Carson's later work, an epistemological
and metaphysical dimension of his poetry is revealed. This serves
as the final vantage point from which the author offers a potential
glimpse beyond the said dialectic, unveiling Carson's broadly
ethical project.
Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers
included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and
culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles
dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the
Victorian era and the modern times. Part two focuses on prose works
representing such conventions and modes as the romance, the Gothic
novel, the condition of England novel, Victorian and neo-Victorian
fiction, the science fiction novel and gay fiction. Part three
concerns various aspects of British and American culture, including
the new media, drama and journalism, and advertising. In its
diversity the volume reflects the dynamics of change in literature
and culture, enabling the readers to investigate the multifaceted
canon.
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