The Rise of the House of Usher: The Landscape Chamber by Sarah Orne Jewett as a Textual Palimpsest

The paper is an analysis of an intertextual relationship between “The Landscape Chamber”, a story by Sarah Orne Jewett of 1887, and Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” in terms of Gérard Genette’s theory of the literary p...

Can One Eat Art? The Political, Socio-Economic and Artistic Role of Food in Peter Greenaway’s Film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover

The aim of the article is to present the relationship between food and politics based on the example of Peter’s Greenaway film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover. This particular Greenaway’s film is compelling...

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Casting a shadow backwards and forwards: the para-Holocaust fiction of Charles Reznikoff, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bernard Malamud

The article reconsiders critical reception of three historical novels by Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Charles Reznikoff, so as to take issue with Alvin H. Rosenfeld’s assertion that “all novels about Jewish...

Schody w przestrzeni miejskiej jako przykład konfliktu między wartością użytkową a efektem artystycznym

The authors formulate a thesis stating that modificationof former innovations, which were supposedto improve the movement around urbanspace, nowadays often bring a disruption intocommunication. The emphasis that modern a...