The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

This is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.

This is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.

This is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.

This is an essay on the relation of images and text. It is part of a larger research project online at writingwithimages.com. See that site for the context; the the project’s purpose is to theorize the possibilities of fiction and poetry that are presented alongside images.

The essays I am posting on Humanities Commons are also on Librarything and Goodreads. These aren’t reviews. They are thoughts about the state of literary fiction, intended principally for writers and critics involved in seeing where literature might be able to go. Each one uses a book as an example of some current problem in writing.

E. M. Forster’s interest in emotions as well as in ways of expressing and suppressing them was an important theme of his essays. “Notes on the English Character” in which he presents the idea of “the undeveloped heart” are probably the best known of them. Forster finds “the undeveloped heart” characteristic of the British, especially men of the up…[Read more]

Contribution to a series of short academic essays on poetry. Discusses Michael Kandel’s translation of Stanisław Lem’s poem on “Love and Tensor Algebra”, which appears in The Cyberiad. Discusses Kandel’s choice abandon both form and content in order to remain true to the original. Ties this to the poem’s use of mathematical imagery to argue th…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language into another but also from one religion into another. The analysed material is a selection of religious poetry of…[Read more]

Artykuł poświęcony związkom angielskiego pisarza Edwarda Morgana Forstera z Polską. Na podstawie zachowanych materiałów omawia dwie wizyty Forstera na polskim terytorium i ich ślady w twórczości pisarza, zarówno we wspomnieniach i korespondencji, jak i tekstach publicystycznych, esejach i pogadankach radiowych. Druga część artykułu poświęcona jes…[Read more]

The article presents the forgotten Romantic English poetess Caroline de Crespigny, her life and works. The analytical part of the paper deals with two minor Neo-Latin lyrics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski translated by de Crespigny and included in her 1844 collection “My Souvenir”.

The article presents the forgotten Romantic English poetess Caroline de Crespigny, her life and works. The analytical part of the paper deals with two minor Neo-Latin lyrics of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski translated by de Crespigny and included in her 1844 collection “My Souvenir”.

The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a most proper and correct literary translation. The reader is, after all, offered an opportunity to control t…[Read more]

The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a most proper and correct literary translation. The reader is, after all, offered an opportunity to control t…[Read more]