Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives

Contents: Tadeusz Rachwal: The ugly depths: Outsides and insides in colonial discourse - Ryszard W. Wolny: Australia's ugliness in Patrick White's selected writings - Dorota Babilas: The innocence of ugliness: Joseph Merrick, his interpreters and the evils of late-Victorian society - Marek Blaszak: The monstrosity of agedness: The presentation of Granny in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy - Anna Branach-Kallas: Gothicizing the Wendigo: The ambivalences of monstrosity in Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden - Stephen Dewsbury: A festering rotten stench: «The Man's» experience of post-colonial rule in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Jacek Fabiszak: Caliban, the salvage and deformed slave: On representations of ugliness in film versions of Shakespeare's The Tempest - Dagmara Krzyzaniak: In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context: Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh's Bedbound - Bozena Kucala: «To embrace death»: The ageing body in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee - Barbara Leftih: «And Lord, let me die with them»: Evil, ugliness and disgrace in the selected Indian captivity narratives - Ewa Mlynarczyk: Disgraceful or thought provoking? Towards a new aesthetic: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the subject matter of poetry - Tomasz Pilch: The figures darkness makes: The voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne in contemporary debates on evil - Jaroslaw Mihulka: Evil incarnate: The representations of Antichrist in the seventeenth-century English literature.