Affinities

Contents: Tadeus Slawek: Dark Ones. Animals and the Ends of Man - Noel Gray: Fi-sci - Richard Terdiman: Globalization and Cultural Studies: Conceptualization, Convergence, and Complication - Art Redding: Be Free! Globalism and Democratic Pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams - Rafal Majka: The Paranoid Mind: The (Im)possibility of Radical Change - Wojciech Józef Burszta: «Culture»: The Paradoxes of Anthropological Imagination - Stephen Tapscott: «See how they hurry to enter their bodies»: Jorie Graham and the Move Beyond Modernism - Anna Warso: «Harms & the child I sing»: Stories of Loss and Self in John Berryman's The Dream Songs - Malgorzta Grzegorzewska: On the Verge of the (In-)Visible: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Eliza Borkowska: «Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God...»; but wherein do we arrive? Wordsworth's Approaches to Infinity - Piotr Skurowski: Land of the Grotesque: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and the «Orientalized» Image of the Post-Cold War Eastern Europe - Jerzy Sobieraj: Black Learning, Land, and Labour in Southern Reconstruction - Mikolaj Wisniewski: «Almost a Joke»: A Reading of Five Poems by Robert Frost - Marek Wilczynski: Redeemer Nations: Polish and American Romantic Rhetoric of Mission - Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich: Use of Humour in Holocaust-related Fiction by American and Polish Writers (Tova Reich and Igor Ostachowicz) - Tomasz Markiewka: A Silenced Land: Comparative Literature in the Upper Silesian Context - Anna Branach-Kallas: The Trauma of Multicultural Renunciation: Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field - Tomasz Basiuk: The Linkage of Homosexuality and Death in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia - Zuzanna Szatanik: «Fearing That Which Need Not Be Feared?»: A Gendered Reading of Agoraphobia - Agata Sitko: Can S/HE Become Normal? - Tomasz Sikora: Is there an Outside? - Ewa Macura-Nnamdi: (Un)Homing Women: Domestic Politics in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Desertion - Joanna Szymanska: On Motion - Ben Dorfman: The Scent