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The Sound Of A City: A Study Of The Phenomenon

by Maciej Smóka

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 Maciej SmÃ³lka holds a PhD in culture and religion studies (Jagiellonian University, 2021) and is a scholar specializing in popular music, popular culture and American studies. His studies concern music localities and identities, the music industry, and the specificities of contemporary popular culture.
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Refigurations Of Freedom - An Analysis Of The Idea Of Freedom In Contemporary American Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

by Robert Gadowski

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 The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers an analysis of freedom in the context of its historical significance for the Western civilization, newly emerging socio-political trends, and the proliferation of innovative technologies that all converge to shape human life in the nearest future. All of these prolific topics permeate modern literature, and in particular the work of American dystopian writers who convey visions of the future where profound refiguration of freedom and the whole democratic paradigm is inevitable.
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Exhaustion And Regeneration In Post-Millennial North-American Literature And Culture

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 The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. Addressing a variety of media, the authors wonder at the ongoing spectacle of exhaustion and regeneration playing itself out on the American stage.
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Upping The Ante Of The Real: Speculative Poetics Of Leslie Scalapino

by Magorzata Myk

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 The book examines American author Leslie Scalapinoâ€™s avant-garde poetics as an experimental form of realism in the speculative mode. Scalapinoâ€™s writings are considered here along the lines of the new materialist inquiry as well as new realist and speculative philosophical approaches.
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American Wild Zones - Space, Experience, Consciousness

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 The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardeners and Elaine Showalters), the terms applicability has been significantly enlarged. Its fluidity or fuzziness, however, ought to be taken as a blessing: in the rapidly changing contemporary («liquid») world it is the language that needs to keep up with new circumstances and developments, not the other way round.
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The Timeless Toni Morrison - The Past And The Present In Toni Morrisons Fiction. A Tribute To Toni Morrison On Occasion Of Her 85th Birthday

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 The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrisons fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrisons texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultural and creative practice closely related to actuality. They examine various incorporations of history in Morrisons writings. The contributions search out thematic continuities as well as discernable ruptures in the texts while noting futuristic tendencies in Morrison's novels and the texts envisagement of the human race.
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Refigurations Of Freedom - An Analysis Of The Idea Of Freedom In Contemporary American Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

by Robert Gadowski

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 The idea of freedom has been celebrated and contested throughout the ages, and amidst great civilizational changes of the early twenty-first century freedomâ€™s future seems to entail its profound refiguration that will transform the whole democratic paradigm, as envisioned through the critical lenses of dystopian literary imaginings.
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Frameworks Of Memory In Recent American Fiction - Narratives Of East-Central European Immigrant Experience

by Marta Koval

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 The monograph analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the roles it plays in identity construction and in the adjustment of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on post-immigrant and exile fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon.
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Disarchiving Anguish - Charles Reznikoff And The Modalities Of Witnessing

by Jacek Partyka

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 The book examines the modalities of witnessing in the works of Charles Reznikoff. Associated with the so-called Objectivist group created in New York in the early 1930s, Reznikoff is often called a poet-witness because the material he draws on in his poetry and, to a lesser extent in prose, comes from his observations of urban life and from authentic testimonies he found in archives. Yet, the process of turning eye-witnessed situations and contents of depositions given by other witnesses into literary texts is far from objective. In particular, Reznikoffs use of archival material is informed by subtly camouflaged manipulation. To demonstrate various degrees of this change, the book centers on a comparative juxtaposition of the poets works with the original documents.
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Disarchiving Anguish - Charles Reznikoff And The Modalities Of Witnessing

by Jacek Partyka

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 The book examines the modalities of witnessing in the works of Charles Reznikoff, a Jewish American poet commonly associated with the so-called Objectivist group. It demontrates how the poet alters the contents of archival material to create his own, â€˜unoriginalâ€˜ verse called â€˜recitative.â€™
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Frameworks Of Memory In Recent American Fiction - Narratives Of East-Central European Immigrant Experience

by Marta Koval

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 The monograph analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the roles it plays in identity construction and in the adjustment of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on post-immigrant and exile fiction by contemporary American writers of East-Central European descent: Askold Melnyczuk, Domnica Radulescu, and Aleksandar Hemon.
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From The Natural Man To The Political Machine - Sovereignty And Power In The Works Of Thomas Hobbes

by Gabriela Ratulea

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 The book analyses the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in connection with the tradition of natural law and modern liberal thought. It emphasizes Hobbesâ€™s peculiar contribution to modern individualism. The main concepts of his philosophy such as natural condition of mankind, social contract, sovereignty and political obligation are analyzed.
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On The Road To Lost Fathers: Jack Kerouac In A Lacanian Perspective

by Tomasz Sawczuk

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 The book examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan. It sets off analyzing the reasons for Kerouacâ€™s aversion towards psychoanalysis, proceeds with discussing textual spontaneity, and concludes with a scrupulous analysis of the father figure(s) in Kerouacâ€™s cycle of the Duluoz Legend.
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Spaces Of Expression And Repression In Post-Millennial North-American Literature And Visual Culture

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 The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary keywords for understanding contemporary American life and culture.
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Images Of The Apocalypse In African American Blues And Spirituals - Destruction In This Land

by Malgorzata Ziolek-Sowinska

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 This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation, and how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world.
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Spaces Of Expression And Repression In Post-Millennial North-American Literature And Visual Culture

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 The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary keywords for understanding contemporary American life and culture.
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Bicultural Bodies - A Study Of South Asian American Womens Literature

by Izabella Kimak

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 The book focuses on the representations of female sexuality and the body in South Asian American womenâ€™s fiction. It analyzes several novels and over a dozen short stories to explore the mechanisms employed by women writers of South Asian descent to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.
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Images Of The Apocalypse In African American Blues And Spirituals - Destruction In This Land

by Magorzata Zióek-Sowiska

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 This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world, death, Christian judgement, heaven and catastrophic events in personal lives of African Americans that result in loss. Selected blues lyrics and texts of spirituals show the persistence of these themes. The book was written with a broad potential audience in mind especially among those interested in religion, eschatology, spirituals, blues and African American studies.
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The Timeless Toni Morrison - The Past And The Present In Toni Morrisonâ€™S Fiction. A Tribute To Toni Morrison On Occasion Of Her 85th Birthday

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 This book offers broad contemporary perspectives with regard to Toni Morrisonâ€™s fiction. The contributions engage on widely debated issues of current American discourse such as the ineradicability of historical memory, the intricacy of racial identity, and the role of literature in revealing profound truth.
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The Web Of Sense - Patterns Of Involution In Selected Works Of Virginia Woolf And Vladimir Nabokov

by Irena Ksiezopolska

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 Aims to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of a work, trapping and reinventing the reader. This work analyses the transgressive use of imagery, symbols, patterns and other textual devices.
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Quo Vadis America? - Conceptualizing Change In American Democracy

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 It is possible to identify ways of conceptualizing change in American democracy. In this book, change is seen as a product of development. Here change is linear, it signifies progress.
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The American Uses Of History - Essays On Public Memory

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 A collection of essays in American Studies that investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. It analyzes travel writings, records of political history, and the ways American agricultural landscape preserves traces of the country's past.
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American Wild Zones - Space, Experience, Consciousness

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 The contributions of this book shed light on the wild zone. The term refers to the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) that, in some identifiable ways, is/was marginalized in American society.
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Out Of The Margins - Identity Formation In Contemporary Chicana Writings

by Ewa Antoszek

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 The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. This book examines the dynamics of interaction between multiple factors influencing the processes of Chicana identity formation presented in the analyzed texts.
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