Proceedings 03

Polish-American Literary Confrontations

The Proceedings of the International Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, Pulawy, October 1994

Editors: Joanna Durczak & Jerzy Durczak

• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• TOMASZ BASIUK William Gaddis: The Economy of Excess and the Debunking of Law
• ROBERT H. BRINKMEYER, JR. The South as Totalitarian Menace: Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream
• JOANNA DURCZAK America and Europe in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
• ROY GOLDBLATT Subversion in the Streets: Assimilating the Eastern European Jews
• ADAM JANISZEWSKI Absurdity, Democracy and Love in Kenneth Brown’s The Brig
• ZOFIA KOLBUSZEWSKA Discontent with Democracy in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
• WIESLAW J. KUHN The Forlorn Demon: Poe in Allen Tate’s Analysis of Modernity
• DAVID R. PICHASKE Junkbonding the Canon
• AGNIESZKA SALSKA Re-visioning the Democratic Imagination: Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam Fiction
• JERRY SCHUCHALTER Norman Mailer’s “Framing” of Richard Nixon: Two Discourses, Two Americas in Of a Fire on the Moon