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...

“Getting Nowhere. Going Home.” Edward Abbey's Quest for Shelter

With a focus on selected writings by Edward Abbey, the article discusses the places which the travel writer designates as home. Showing how Abbey mythologizes his birthplace and how he sentimentalizes his boyhood nest, i...

Dlaczego Superman nie mógł być Żydem? Tożsamość żydowska w komiksie amerykańskim i frankofońskim

Beginning with Superman and the Golden Age of American Comic Books, by Will Eisner’s graphic novels and Art Spiegelman’s underground stories, till the most recent examples of artists from both American and Francophone co...

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“It ghosts”: Language as a Haunted Dwelling in Selected Poems by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore

In Specters of Marx, Derrida argues that all writing is ghost-driven, for “everyone reads, acts, writes with his or her ghosts.” Modernist poetry can be described as particularly “spectral”, as it often locates itself on...