“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...

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Bolek i Lolek: od widowni dziecięcej do systemu rozrywkowego. Rekonesans badawczy

The paper examines the Polish television series Bolek and Lolek (1963 – 1986) and discusses its growth into an entertainment supersystem as defined in Marsha Kinder’s Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video G...

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...

Tracing the Form of Compassion: Homelessness in Leslie Scalapino’s “bum series.”

The article examines American avant-garde poet Leslie Scalapino’s poem “bum series,” included in 1988 collection way. Devoted to the theme of homelessness, “bum series” problematizes a poetic gesture of forging an ethica...