Crossroads in Literature and Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Crossing thresholds of literary theories and critical approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. I See a Voice…

      • Małgorzata Grzegorzewska

      Pages 3-10

   3. A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre

      • Tymon Adamczewski

      Pages 11-23

   4. Cutting into a New World: Reading The Cut Through Slavoj Žižek

      • Robert Kielawski

      Pages 25-33

   5. Internal (Post)Coloniality in Anglo-Irish Literature: Crossing the Boundaries in Postcolonial Comparative Studies

      • Grzegorz Koneczniak

      Pages 35-44

   6. A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and The Cleft

      • Katarzyna Więckowska

      Pages 45-55

3. Remapping women's / men's moral and social borders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens

      • Aleksandra Budrewicz-Beratan

      Pages 59-72

   3. “Women with Iron in’em. Women Who Wanted Land and a Home”: Female Pioneers Staking Out New Territories in the American Popular Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s

      • Barbara Leftih

      Pages 73-83

   4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender

      • Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys

      Pages 85-93

   5. “Outlaw Emotions”: Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice”, Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets

      • Magdalena Pypeć

      Pages 95-104

   6. “The One Great Drawback to the Life of Women is That They Cannot Act in Politics”? Political Women in Anthony Trollope’s Fiction

      • Agnieszka Setecka

      Pages 105-114

   7. Transgressing Boundaries to Metamorphose: The Outlander by Gil Adamson

      • Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka

      Pages 115-126

   8. Forbidden Territories: the Sexual and the Social in Allan Hollinghurst’s Novel The Line of Beauty

      • Przemysław Uściński

      Pages 127-133

   9. What Haunts Hundreds Hall? Transgression in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger

      • Barbara Braid

      Pages 135-145

   10. Crossing the “Gender Frontier”: Cross-dressing and Male Impersonation in Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1998)

       • Malwina Degórska

       Pages 147-155

4. Cross-language ventures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. “Black Women are the Most Fascinating Creations in the World” or How (not) to Translate Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

      • Marcin Jurkowicz

      Pages 159-168

5. Old world, new world and the space between

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture.

• Cultural Studies
• English and American literature and culture
• Literary theory
• Sociolinguistics
• literary diction

• , School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

  Jacek Fabiszak

• , Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

  Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka

• Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Department of English Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

  Bartosz Wolski

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