Bohemians, Vagabonds, and Wanderers of the “Ragged Promised Land” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

The article focuses on the journey into the “ragged promised land” (80) in On the Road. It can be seen as an escape of the main protagonist Sal Paradise from his roots and from the conformity of American society. Kerouac...

Jak umierają współcześni bohaterowie i co po nich zostaje?

Watching deaths belongs to natural human needs. Nowadays this need is fulfilled by popular culture. Here I am focusing on the last public statements by the late Polish VIPs and celebrities, recognized as the superstars o...

Fighting for Rosenbergs. The Polish staging of Leon Kruczkowski’s play “Julius and Ethel”

Leon Kruczkowski was one of the few Polish writers to publicly protest about the treatment of Jewish people by the Polish Government in the years preceding World War II. First performed in Warsaw in 1954, his Polish play...

The Home and the Asylum. Antebellum Representations of True Womanhood in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables

This paper presents an analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables regarding his depiction of the nineteenth-century ideals of femininity: the cult of true womanhood and dome...

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