Slant

TELLING IT SLANT
Polish Insights into American Culture and Literature.
Essays in Honor of Professor Andrzej Kopcewicz on His 65th Birthday

Edited by Marek Wilczynski and Magdalena Zapedowska

Table of Contents

• TADEUSZ SLAWEK (University of Silesia, Katowice) – Blake and Thoreau: Friendship and the Ethics of Contrariness
• AGNIESZKA SALSKA (University of Lodz) – Dickinson in the Elegiac Mode
• ZBIGNIEW MASZEWSKI (University of Lodz) – On the Margin of the Question of Literary Property in American Romanticism
• JOANNA DURCZAK (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) – “The Dover Bitch” on “Dover Beach”: Contemporary American Response Poems
• AGATA PREIS-SMITH (Warsaw University) – Gender, Revolution, and the Political Unconscious in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills.
• ELZBIETA H. OLEKSY (University of Lodz) – Monstrousness and Authorship: Willa Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl
• JADWIGA MASZEWSKA (University of Lodz) – Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead: A Voice in the Constructionof the Modern American Nation
• JERZY DURCZAK (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) – Irish Boyz N the Hood: James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan Trilogy
• TOMASZ BASIUK (Warsaw University) – Joking About the Navel, Or: Intertextuality As Cyborg
• JERZY KUTNIK (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin) – Jackson Pollock and John Cage. Are They the American Avant-Garde’s Binary Mega-Star?
• TADEUSZ RACHWAL (University of Silesia, Katowice) – America(s). Some French Perspectives
• WOJCIECH KALAGA (University of Silesia, Katowice) – Memory As Nature and Culture
• JOSEPH KUHN (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – A Mind of Stone, Plants and Autumn: Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West
  in the Work of Allen Tate
• AGNIESZKA RZEPA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – Textual Androgyny? The Textuality of Gender and the Gender of Text
• MAGDALENA ZAPEDOWSKA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – Mickiewicz’s Circles: “A Vision” in the Light of Emerson’s Early Essays
• MARCIN TURSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – John Barth’s Sabbatical and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: Cases of Midrashing Recontexting
• MAREK WILCZYNSKI (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) – The Return of the Repressed Past. The Uncanny Houses of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman