The article presents historical, literary, religious and political context in which interest in the poetry of the Baroque Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) appeared in the first half of the 18th century among English dissenters and non-conformists. The article concentrates on the best known and most prolific of the six…[Read more]

The article deals with a little know poem by William Sidney Walker written in the wake of the Napoleonic wars as an appeal for just treatment of Poland in the aftermath of the wars. The main character in the poem is the Polish Baroque poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (Sarbievius, Casimir). The paper is supplemented with the original text and…[Read more]

The article presents the operatic motives in the oeuvre of E. M. Forster. It concentrates especially on the scene in the opera house in Monteriano from ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread” but other allusions to various operas are also detailed. In Polish.

The volume intended to commemorate the 40th anniversary of E. M. Forster’s death. It consists of ten papers by various authors which deal with various aspects of Forster’s oeuvre, creating a new overview of his works from his novels, through his essays to his only opera libretto. An excerpt from review “This collection of essays edited by…[Read more]

The articles concentrates on issued connected with the cooperation between literary translators and their editors. The issue of training for the job of editors as well as possible problems are presented and discussed in detail.

The article presents an attempt at reconstructing the changes of the image of Europe in the poetry of the Irish Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. The changes are presented metaphorically as a process of map-making of which the poetry is the testimony. Europe is perceived here both as a geographical entity and in a broader context as a…[Read more]

The paper presents the presence of English homosexual authors in Polish literary studies mostly aimed at students of history of English literature. From a review: “As indicated in the opening paragraphs, queer theory and broadly LGBTIQ approaches have been finding new homes as well as finally being given voices in publication. One such from…[Read more]

This study presents the formative period of the English novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) with a special stress on the usage of symbolism in his early fiction. The book offers a new approach to Forster’s symbolism derived from the theoretical studies of Michael Riffaterre and his concept of symbolic systems – subtext and syllepsis. The author…[Read more]

The article discusses the typical structural devises of E. M. Forster’s fiction such as the use of self-imposed exile as the solution which replaces a happy ending.

The article attempts to recreate E. M. Forster’s personal mythology as based on the references to Ancient Greek and Roman deities present in his works.

The article offers a detailed examination of the way the screenplay writer and director of the movie ‘A Room with a View’ dealt with the symbolic patterns present in the original novel by E. M. Forster.

The article presents biography and an outline of literary work of the American novelist and painter Albert du Aime (William Wharton). The text includes the writer’s biography with a special stress on the biographical material included in the novels. Further part of the article presents basic assumptions of Wharton’s work, enumerates recurrent…[Read more]

The article offers an analysis of Polish translations of the novels ‘King’ and ‘Snow White’ by Donald Barthelme in view of the concepts proposed by Lawrence Venuti. (In Polish)

The article attempts to present the ethical teaching in the novels of the American novelist William Wharton.

Pyzik, Teresa and Paweł Jędrzejko, eds. Reflections on Ethical Values in Post (?) Modern American Literature. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2000 pp. 97-103

„Polish Literary Translation in Free Market Economy. A Subjective, Provocative and Partial Approach” – a brief account of the situation of Literary Translation in Poland after 1989. The article offers an overview of the situation of literary translation in Poland in the decade following the political and economic changes of 1989. Published in: ‘Pr…[Read more]

The article comments upon the existing Polish translation of the novels of Donald Barthelme – The King and Snow White – from the point of view of Venutian theory of translation.

The paper was presented during The 1st International Conference in Translation Studies – Translatingthe Untranslatable in Gdańsk (24-26.03.1999). Its expanded and…[Read more]