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Proceedings 05

CANONS, REVISION, SUPPLEMENTS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE


The Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, Poznan, October 1995

Editor: Marek Wilczynski
Assistant to the Editor: Marcin Turski

Contents

Accounts and Diagnoses

  • Piotr Dziedzic (University of Silesia, Katowice) – SOMETHING HAPPENED: “GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS”: IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AND AFTER
  • Bohdan Szklarski (American Studies Center, Warsaw) – AMERICAN NATIONALISM IN THE AGE OF MULTICULTURALISM
  • Agnieszka Salska (University of Lodz) – THE CONTINUING COLONIZATION OF EMILY DICKINSON

Reapproaching the Past

  • Tadeusz Slawek (University of Silesia, Katowice) – “THROUGH THE UNDERWOOD OF WORDS OT THE CLEAR BLUE”: THOREAU, CAVELL, AND THE “CRYSTALLIZATION” OF AMERICA
  • Tadeusz Rachwal (University of Silesia, Katowice) – STEPS (NOT) BEYOND. ON EMERSON’S NATURE AND THOREAu’S WALKING
  • Marek Wilczynski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – A LONG MISSING LINK: THE AESTHETICS OF WASHINGTON ALLSTON AND AMERICAN GOTHICISM
  • Piotr Woryma (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – LIFE AND/OR ART: A READING OF THE TRAGIC MUSE

Remapping the Present

  • Andrzej Kopcewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – THE DARK ROOMS AND BARTLEBY: AN INTERTEXTUAL STUDY
  • Pawel Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) – CYBERPUNK: THE NARRATIVE OF PRESENT FUTURE IMPERFECT
  • Tomasz Basiuk (University of Warsaw) – VISION AND VOICE: THE RECONDITE PERSPECTIVE IN WILLIAM GADDIS
  • Zofia Kolbuszewska (Catholic University of Lublin) – THOMAS PYNCHON AS A NEO-BAROQUE WRITER: INSTABILITY, DISORDER, AND FRACTAL SPHERES IN THE CRYING OF LOT 49 AND VINELAND
  • Marcin Turski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – REWRITING THE ODYSSEY: JOHN BARTH’S THE TIDEWATER TALES
  • Jadwiga Maszewska (University of Lodz) – LOUISE ERDRICH AND OTHER WRITERS OF MIXED BLOOD
  • Roy Goldblatt (University of Joensuu) – RESETTLING THE GHETTO OUT WEST: THE LATER WORKS OF DANIEL FUCHS
  • Clifford Hallam (University of Lodz) – MAN IN NATURE AS SUPPLEMENT IN DELIVERANCE
  • Agnieszka Graff (University of Warsaw) – ARE YOU A PRIVILEGED WOMAN? – THE DYNAMICS OF IDENTIFICATION IN HARLEQUIN ROMANCES
  • Waclaw Grzybowski (University of Opole) – THOMAS MERTON’S POETRY AND POETICS: EXPERIMENT IN MODERN RELIGIOUS POETRY
  • Zbigniew Maszewski (University of Lodz) – WILLIAM FAULKNER, BRUNO SCHULZ, AND THE BOOK

Words and Images

  • Cheryl Alexander Malcolm (University of Gdansk) – IN SEARCH OF THE HEROIC: STRYTELLING AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN BARRY GIFFORD’S WILD AT HEART: THE STORY OF SAILOR AND LULA
  • Elzbieta H. Oleksy (North American Studies Center, Lodz) – CROSS-DISCIPLINE AND CROSS-RACE: WOMEN’S BONDING IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN FICTION AND FILM
  • Marek Hendrykowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – GRIFFITH, CUBISM, AND THE 20TH CENTURY ART

The Canadian Supplement

  • Anna Jakabfi (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest) – RELIGION IN MARGARET LAURENCE’S MANAWAKA SERIES
  • Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – EXPANDING WITH ANNIE SWAN OR WHAT BEFELL THE BIGGEST MODERN WOMAN OF THE WORLD
  • Krisztina Vankay-Kodo (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest) – “MYTH IN CANADIAN LIFE” AS PRESENTED IN ROBERTSON DAVIES’ THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY
  • Andrea Hanslip (University of Warsaw) – JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN: A QUESTION OF GENRE(S)