Homeland and Resilience: Immunitas, Katechon, the Uncanny, and Trauma’s Displacement

The paper focuses on the category of resilience as it refers to the capacity of socio-political systems to withstand stress or to adapt to it. Invoking resilience enables a multifaceted reading of the TV series Homeland...

The Secret History of Hamden Campus: A Study in Elitism and Murder

This paper examines Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) from the perspective of campus spatial modalities and their use or abuse by a privileged group of students. As in other campus mystery novels, the supposedly eg...

Kiedy świat staje się błękitem. Blue Dereka Jarmana jako artystyczny i osobisty manifest twórcy

Behemoth przełamuje tabu stając się elementem polskiej kultury popularnej. Analiza twórczości zespołu

John Zorn. Jak być żydowskim postmodernistą (albo postmodernistycznym Żydem)?

Being one of the most prominent figures of the New York avant-garde scene since the early 1980s of the 20th century – John Zorn is almost nonexistent in the Polish musical studies. Moreover, even though his art is densel...