Literary and Cultural Forays Into the Contemporary Literary and Cultural Forays Cultural Literary and Into the Contemporary

15 This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The Katarzyna Więckowska / articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to Grzegorz Koneczniak question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities. The contributors not only revive the mean- (eds.) ings and values as they were lived at the time of creating the specific works, but also point to the ways in which these meanings continue to function for contemporary readers. Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary Literary and cultural forays cultural Literary and into the contemporary Grzegorz Koneczniak (eds.) · Koneczniak Grzegorz Dis/Continuities / Toruń Studies in Language, Katarzyna Więckowska is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she teaches cultural and Literature and Culture literary studies. Edited by Mirosława Buchholtz Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor in the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he teaches courses in editing and publishing. Katarzyna Więckowska Katarzyna www.peterlang.com ISBN 978-3-631-67480-2 DISC 15_267480_Wieckowska_AM_A5HCk PLE.indd 1 05.12.16 KW 49 11:33 15 This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The Katarzyna Więckowska/ articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to Grzegorz Koneczniak question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities. The contributors not only revive the mean- (eds.) ings and values as they were lived at the time of creating the specific works, but also point to the ways in which these meanings continue to function for contemporary readers. Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary Literary and cultural forays cultural Literary and into the contemporary Dis/Continuities /Grzegorz (eds.) · Koneczniak Toruń Studies in Language, Katarzyna Więckowska is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where she teaches cultural and Literature and Culture literary studies. Edited by Mirosława Buchholtz Grzegorz Koneczniak is Assistant Professor in the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he teaches courses in editing and publishing. Katarzyna Więckowska Katarzyna www.peterlang.com DISC 15_267480_Wieckowska_AM_A5HCk PLE.indd 1 05.12.16 KW 49 11:33 Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary DIS/CONTINUITIES TORUŃ STUDIES IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE Edited by Mirosława Buchholtz Advisory Board Leszek Berezowski (Wrocław University) Annick Duperray (University of Provence) Dorota Guttfeld (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Grzegorz Koneczniak (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Piotr Skrzypczak (Nicolaus Copernicus University) Jordan Zlatev (Lund University) Vol. 15 Katarzyna Wi ckowska / Grzegorz Koneczniak (eds.) ę Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. This publication was financially supported by the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru . ń ISSN 2193-4207 ISBN 978-3-631-67480-2 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-06691-3 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-71234-4 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-71235-1 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b10721 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2017 All rights reserved. Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Acknowledgments We wish to thank the Head of the Department of English and the Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, for making this publication possible. We are also very grateful to the supervisors of the MA dis- sertations in literary and cultural studies which, together with the MA projects completed under our supervision, served as the basis for the articles collected in the volume: prof. dr hab. Mirosława Buchholtz, dr hab. Anna Branach-Kallas, NCU prof., and dr hab. Edyta Lorek-Jezińska. Table of Contents Katarzyna Więckowska and Grzegorz Koneczniak Preface ............................................................................................................................9 Part One: Interrogating ethics Małgorzata Żmijewska The Stolen Generations of Australia: In search of literal and symbolic dimensions in selected factual and literary sources ...............................................17 Paula Dutko Transmitted Holocaust trauma: Third generation experience in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated ....................................................................27 Adrian Woźniak The analysis of evil and its influence on people in Stephen King’s The Stand .......35 Part Two: Questioning the literary realm Jacek Stopa A soft voice whispers nothing: Nihilism and horror in the works of Thomas Ligotti .......................................................................................................47 Karol Szewczyk References to literature in selected songs of Iron Maiden ....................................57 Marta Sibierska Re-reading Virginia Woolf’s works through the prism of cognitive sciences ........67 Emilia Leszczyńska Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women: The representation of time in the short-story cycle and its film adaptation ......................................................79 Part Three: Querying cultural identities Joanna Korzeniewska In search of one’s identity: Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) ........................91 8 Table of Contents Małgorzata Borońska Facing the repressed: The doubles in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) ........ 101 Joanna Antoniak Fatherlessness and postmodern society: Absent fatherhood and father hunger in Jonathan Safran Foer’s fiction ................................................... 111 Part Four: Re-entering history Olivier Harenda Apart yet together: The Partition of India as the catalyst for nationalism in post-colonial times ........................................................................ 123 Paula Suchorska “Bloody Mary” and “Gloriana”… or maybe not necessarily? The depictions of Mary I and Elizabeth I in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography and Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper .............................................................. 135 Anna Lewandowska Publishers’ contribution to the readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets: The value of the touchstone-based analysis of the typography of sonnet 144 in the facsimile of the First Quarto of 1609 ..................................... 145 Part Five: Distant forays Grzegorz Koneczniak Editorial and literary combination explored: The case study of Editing and Publishing Programme offered by the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń ........................................................... 159 Waldemar Skrzypczak Studying linguistics for fun and profit: From general semiotics to the stylistics of literary texts .............................................................................. 171 Notes on contributors ............................................................................................. 191 Katarzyna Więckowska and Grzegorz Koneczniak Preface Foray: A sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something; a raid; A brief but spirited attempt to become involved in a new activity or sphere (Oxford Dictionary) “The making of art,” as Raymond Williams claimed in 1977, is “a formative pro- cess” that is “never in the past,” but is incessantly made present again “in specifically active ‘readings’” (1977: 129). The present volume takes Williams’s statement as the point of departure to offer analyses of a variety of works by young scholars and to show their continuing validity for contemporary readers and critics. In a very literal sense, these readings are forays, that is, voyages into new territories by writers beginning their involvement with literary and cultural studies. Their incursions into the not-yet-known are also, metaphorically, struggles, whose ulti- mate aim may be described as one to discover and present “meanings and values as they are actively lived and felt” (Williams 1977:132) in what can be globally called the contemporary. Literary and Cultural Forays into the Contemporary is a collection of articles by young scholars from the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus Universi- ty in Toruń, Poland. The book is divided into five parts which, though focusing on different spheres and exploring sets of distinct problems, are all examples of “active readings” driven by the desire to question the old and to interrogate the known. As such, they not only revive the meanings and values as they were lived at the time of creating the specific works, but also point to the ways in which these meanings continue to function

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