ANGLICA An International Journal of English Studies 25/1 2016 EDITOR prof. dr hab. Grażyna Bystydzieńska [[email protected]] ASSOCIATE EDITORS dr hab. Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż [[email protected]] dr Anna Wojtyś [[email protected]] ASSISTANT EDITORS dr Katarzyna Kociołek [[email protected]] dr Magdalena Kizeweter [[email protected]] ADVISORY BOARD GUEST REVIEWERS Michael Bilynsky, University of Lviv Dorota Babilas, University of Warsaw Andrzej Bogusławski, University of Warsaw Teresa Bela, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Mirosława Buchholtz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń Maria Błaszkiewicz, University of Warsaw Xavier Dekeyser University of Antwerp / KU Leuven Anna Branach-Kallas, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń Bernhard Diensberg, University of Bonn Teresa Bruś, University of Wrocław, Poland Edwin Duncan, Towson University, Towson, MD Francesca de Lucia, independent scholar Jacek Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Ilona Dobosiewicz, Opole University Jacek Fisiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Andrew Gross, University of Göttingen Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University, Evanston-Chicago Paweł Jędrzejko, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec Piotr Gąsiorowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Aniela Korzeniowska, University of Warsaw Keith Hanley, Lancaster University Andrzej Kowalczyk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin Christopher Knight, University of Montana, Missoula, MT Barbara Kowalik, University of Warsaw Marcin Krygier, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Ewa Łuczak, University of Warsaw Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney, University of Łódź David Malcolm, University of Gdańsk Zbigniew Mazur, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin Dominika Oramus University of Warsaw Znak ogólnodostępnyRafał / Molencki,wersje University językowe of Silesia, Sosnowiec Marek Paryż, University of Warsaw John G. 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Typesetting and cover design: Bartosz Mierzyński Printing and bindings: Sowa – Druk na życzenie www.sowadruk.pl +48 22 431 81 40 Table of Contents Małgorzata Grzegorzewska That which Cannot be Said: My Flesh and the Face of the Other in the Poetry of John Donne ......................................................................................... 5 Klaudia Łączyńska Surprised by Death, or How Andrew Marvell’s Mower Confronts Death in Arcadia ............................................................................................................... 27 Kyla Helena Drzazgowski Sabra the Saint: Hagiography in Richard Johnson’s The Seven Champions of Christendom ....................................................................................................... 35 Christine Mangan The ‘inadequacy of her resistance’: Reading Eighteenth-Century Rape Trials in Peter Teuthold’s The Necromancer ..................................................................... 47 Celina Jeray Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus: Friendship, Monstrosity and Radical Otherness. ...................................................................... 59 Anna Gutowska Popular Fiction Tropes in George Eliot’s Felix Holt: the Radical ......................... 73 Sylwia Szulc Literature, Politics and the CIA: Polish-English Literary Translation at the Time of the Cold War .............................................................................................. 91 Miłosz Wojtyna The Petty Theft of Fiction – V. S. Pritchett and the Moderate Short Story ............ 109 Katrin Berndt “The Things We Are”: Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and the Science of Man .... 125 Marcin Sroczyński Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star: A Tale of Psychopathology in a Neo-Romantic Setting ....................................................................................... 141 Carole Guesse The Clones’ Apprenticeship: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go as a Bildungsroman ................................................................................................ 155 Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The Ubiquitous Absence of Jack: Ripper Street and the (Neo-)Victorian Obsession ........................................................................................................... 171 Francesca Pierini Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture ....... 181 Sabrina Thom The Transformative Power of Words: Subverting Traumatic Experiences in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Lee Maracle’s “Goodbye Snauq” ................................................................................................................ 199 Radwa Ramadan Mahmoud Breaking Silence in Marlene Nourbese Philip’s She Tries Her Tongue ............ 219 Kavitha Ganesan British Colonial Education and the Rise of Nationalism in Malaya: Tracing the Route of the Merdeka Generation in Adibah Amin’s This End of the Rainbow ............................................................................................................. 233 Yasser Fouad Selim Islamophobia in Early and Contemporary America: Reproducing Myths in Slaves in Algiers (1794) and Argo (2012) ........................................................ 255 Daniel Xerri ‘Living in a house without mirrors’: Poetry’s Cachet and Student Engagement ...................................................................................................... 271 REVIEW Marjorie Gehrhardt, The Men with Broken Faces: Gueules Cassées of the First World War (Anna Branach-Kallas) ................................... 287 My Flesh and the Face of the Other in the Poetry of John Donne 5 Małgorzata Grzegorzewska University of Warsaw That which Cannot be Said: My Flesh and the Face of the Other in the Poetry of John Donne Abstract The article offers an analysis of selected poems of John Donne, viewed through the prism of traditional theological thought (the works of Hans von Balthasar) and current philo- sophical debates. In particular, the author draws upon the works of Jean-Luc Marion and Richard Kearney who take up the task of scrutinizing the heritage of phenomenological thought. Both thinkers address the questions arising from philosophy’s renewed interest in religion initiated in twentieth-century post-phenomenology. The analysis concentrates on bodily pain and love ecstasies as the modalities of human flesh. The author of the paper adapts for the purposes of literary criticism Jean-Luc Marion’s concept of a “saturated phenomenon” which surprises and bedazzles the perceiving subject by overflowing his or her intention at the moment of its unexpected arrival. The aim of the article is to highlight the religious and philosophical potential of Metaphysical Poetry. The poems of John Donne which I intend to analyse in this paper are informed by the same fascination with the circuits of enfleshed pain and love (both human and divine) which characterize the philosophical debates in our times. In my read- ing of Donne’s poetry I will refer to the work of Jean-Luc Marion and Richard Kearney, who take up the task of scrutinizing the heritage of phenomenological reflection, and address the questions arising from philosophy’s renewed interest in religion, initiated in twentieth-century post-phenomenology. Introducing Mari- on’s concept of a saturated phenomenon, I shall make use of the phenomenologi- cal insights which inform T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. This brief poetological and philosophical introduction will serve as a basis for a reading of three poems by John Donne: “Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse” (336–337), “A Lecture upon the Shadow” (63–64) and “The good-morrow” (7–8). 1. The Threshold of Wonder The very title of Jean-Luc Marion’s work, The Visible and the Revealed, reflects the author’s involvement in what has been widely recognized as the religious 6 Małgorzata Grzegorzewska turn in continental philosophy. The inscription which appears on the title page of the book invites the reader to reflect