The article describes the use of various of fonts in the novels of the American novelist William Wharton as a means of extralinguistic communication with the reader. The article concentrates on the novels Birdy, Franky Furbo, and Last Lovers.

Edelson, Maria, Adam Sumera and Jadwiga Uchman eds. PASE Papers in Literature and Culture. Proceedings…[Read more]

The article presents a detailed analysis of the variety of uses of water symbolism in E. M. Forster’s novel ‘A Room with a View’
Bela, Teresa and Zbigniew Mazur eds. Tradition and Postmodernity. English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future. Kraków: Universitas, 1999 pp. 203-212.This is an early version based on conference paper

The article discusses various translation problems connected with the Polish translation of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.

More Info: Przekładaniec. A Journal of Literary Translation. No 5 (spring-summer 1999), Kraków pp. 71-79.

The paper was presented during The 3rd ITI Colloquium on Literary Translation organized in Sheffield by University of Sheffield in September 1998. As the planned volume of proceedings was ultimately not published, Polish, expanded and updated version of the article appeared two years later in Polish journal on literary translation…[Read more]

The article presents a little known episode of the life of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1867-1939) – his involvement in politics during the early years of the Irish independence. The author describes Yeats’ participation in the proceedings of the parliamentary Coinage Committee as well as other social and political activities the…[Read more]

The theoretical aim of the article is to start a discussion concerning the approach towards discussion understood as a (in the Author’s opinion largely neglected) teaching method. The practical part of the article includes a selection of information concerning the Angry Young Writers (1950-1965) with a special stress put on their approach towards…[Read more]