New Perspectives in English and American Studies. Volume One: Literature contains a selection of papers delivered at 14th International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized every three years by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The editors divided the content into five broad sections reflecting the scope of academic reflection, the breadth of cultural material and the depth of its analysis.
The articles in the volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies and their diversity mirrors the broad spectrum of the thematic panels of the conference.
These included, among others, Medievalism in Literature, James Joyce Studies, The Contemporary Historical Novel and Multimodality. Aside from these thematic sessions, a number of general sessions dedicated to a wide spectrum of topics pertinent to English and American studies was held – in particular, the issues of the individual’s perspective upon collective history, regional myths as well as the pivotal new historical awareness.
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- Introduction: The Past Informs the Future, the Future Informs the Past
- George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO’s Game of Thrones and (Neo)Medievalism
- Narrative Cross-currents and Textual Crossfires. Th ree Sophisticated, Intertextually Cross-fertilized Examples of the Contemporary Historical Novel
- The (In)authenticity of Invented History in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project
- Modern Representations of War-time Executions in William Brodrick’s A Whispered Name and John Boyne’s The Absolutist
- “The Fable Splits at the Seams”: An Exploration of Imagination and Myth in William Golding’s The Scorpion God
- From Trauma to Love, from Experiment to Tradition: Contemporary British Historical Romances and Historiography
- Historical Vanishing Points in Hilary Mantel’s Novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
- New Sporting Woman – A New Ideal of Womanhood in Late Victorian England?
- W.J. Cash and Hitler: The Mind of the South and the European Crisis
- The True and the Degenerate – Images of Native Americans and the Natural Environment in William Faulkner’s Short Stories
- Honor, Religion, and Domesticity: New Perspectives on Southern Dueling in Augusta Jane Evans’s St. Elmo
- The Old South and a New Meaning: Kate Chopin’s Stories vs. Patricia Yaeger’s Dirt and Desire
- Through the Ruins of an Orchard: The Fertility Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
- “Deafened by the Roar of Its Own History”: Communal Remembering and Collective Forgetting in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
- Zitkála-Šá’s Old Indian Legends: A New Perspective
- The “Other” in Deliver Us from Evil
- Contrary Farmers and the Literature of Agri/cultural Resistance
- Different Images of Father in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Fiction
- “Lee and the Boys” – A Queer Look at William S. Burroughs
- Inhabiting the Moment in Time: W.S. Merwin’s The Shadow of Sirius
- Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean Terror
- The Anxiety of the Lion Influence: The Place of the Lion and Narnia
- Challenging the Codex = Challenging the Reader? Motivations behind B.S. Johnson’s Aesthetical Choices in The Unfortunates
- Doris Lessing and J.M. Coetzee in the Context of Contemporary Celebrity Culture
- The Conflict between Ecclesiastical Courts and the Royal Justice in the Late Medieval Passion Plays
- “New Heaven, New Earth”: Some Promised Ends and Brave New Worlds of Shakespearean Theatre
- Repartee and Quip as Modes of Literary Wit in John Webster’s Drama The Duchess of Malfi
- Performing Theology: David Adjmi’s Satirical Tragedies
- Dynamic Patterns in Contemporary Multimodal Printed Novels: The Exploration, the Quest, the Journey, the Encounter
- Digital Tracing of the “Parallactic Drift of the Socalled Fixed Stars” in James Joyce’s Ulysses
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