Polish Journal for American Studies Studies American Journal for Polish Polish Journal for American Studies | Vol. 8 (2014) Vol. | Studies American Journal for Polish Polish Journal for American Studies Yearbook of the Polish Association for American Studies and the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw Vol. 10 (2016) Vol. 8 (2014) Małgorzata Rutkowska Pet-Keeping in Canadian and American Animal Autobiographies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Stefan L. Brandt | Vol. 10 (2016) Vol. Juvenile Rebellion and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Sabrina Mittermeier Disney’s America, the Culture Wars, and the Question of Edutainment Olga Korytowska Storks and Jars: Within the World of Surrogacy Narratives Grzegorz Welizarowicz California Mission Gulags AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW TYTUŁ ARTYKUŁU 1 Polish Journal for American Studies Yearbook of the Polish Association for American Studies Vol. 10 (2016) Warsaw 2016 2 IMIĘ NAZWISKO MANAGING EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Marek Paryż Marek Paryż EDITORIAL BOARD EDITORIALIzabella Kimak, BOARD Mirosław Miernik, Jacek Partyka, Paweł Stachura Paulina Ambroży, Patrycja Antoszek, Zofia Kolbuszewska, Karolina Krasuska, ZuzannaADVISORY Ładyga BOARD Andrzej Dakowski, Jerzy Durczak, Joanna Durczak, Andrew S. Gross, Andrea ADVISORYO’Reilly Herrera, BOARD Jerzy Kutnik, John R. 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Niepodległości 22 02–653 Warsaw Publisher:www.paas.org.pl Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw ul. Nowy Świat 4, 00–497 Warsaw www. angli.uw.edu.pl Cover Image: The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on stone by D. C. Johnston from a print published in London 1774. Typesetting,Library of Congress cover design Control by BartoszNumber Mierzyński 2006691557 Cover Image: “Martin R. Delany,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Nakład: 130 egz. Nakład: 110 egz. Printed by Sowa – Druk na życzenie Printedphone: +48by Sowa 22 431 – Druk 81 40; na www.sowadruk.pl życzenie phone: +48 22 431 81 40 www.sowadruk.pl Table of Contents 3 Table of Contents ARTICLES Michał Choiński Sermons That “Cut Like a Sword”: Samuel Blair’s Rhetoric During the Great Awakening ............................................................................................. 7 Alicja Piechucka The Sound of Silence: Saint Cecilia and Celestial Music in Hart Crane and Stéphane Mallarmé ...................................................................................................23 Małgorzata Rutkowska “A Dog’s Life”: Pet-Keeping in Canadian and American Animal Autobiographies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ............................................................................37 Stefan L. Brandt “One of Those Guys in the Movies”: Juvenile Rebellion and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye ......................................................................49 Marek Paryż Regeneration Through Acquisition: Undoing the Pastoral in Sam Peckinpah’s The Ballad of Cable Hogue ............................................................................................65 Joanna Perzyna ABC’s North and South (Book I and Book II) Miniseries as an Expression of Reaganite Ideology .......................................................................................................79 Marta Rzepecka Political Argumentation in Ronald Reagan’s “Bear” Commercial ........................... 103 Sabrina Mittermeier “Windows to the Past”: Disney’s America, the Culture Wars, and the Question of Edutainment ............................................................................................................... 127 Paweł Stachura Anticipation and Divination of Technological Culture: Dialectic Images of the Internet in Emerson’s Nature ........................................................................... 147 4 Table of Contents Olga Korytowska Storks and Jars: Within the World of Surrogacy Narratives .....................................163 Łukasz Muniowski Allen Iverson: Celebrity and the Event ........................................................................183 REVIEW ESSAY Grzegorz Welizarowicz California Mission Gulags: Putting Junípero Serra’s Canonization in Perspective ..................................................................................................................195 REVIEWS Tadeusz Sławek, Henry David Thoreau—Grasping the Community of the World (Mark S. Burrows) ....................................................................................217 John Marsh, In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself (Jarosław Milewski) ......................................................................222 Sascha Pöhlmann, Future Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century (Kacper Bartczak) ................................226 Andrew S. Gross, The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature (Grzegorz Kość) ..........................................................................231 Michael Snape, God and Uncle Sam: Religion and America’s Armed Forces in World War II (Christopher Garbowski) ..................................................................234 Laurence W. Mazzeno, The Critics and Hemingway, 1924–2014: Shaping an American Literary Icon (Zbigniew Maszewski) .....................................................237 Joanna Ziarkowska and Ewa Łuczak, eds., Pisarze pochodzenia indiańskiego: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor [Native American Writers: Momaday, Silko, Erdrich, Alexie, Vizenor] (Alicja Piechucka) ...................................................240 Table of Contents 5 Zuzanna Ładyga, ed., Barth, Barthelme, Coover (Paweł Stachura) ..........................244 Peter Swirski, American Political Fictions: War on Errorism in Contemporary American Literature, Culture, and Politics (Jacek Romaniuk) ..................................247 Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis, The Southern Mystique: Food, Gender, and Houses in Southern Fiction and Films (Beata Zawadka) .........................................................249 CONTRIBUTORS .........................................................................................................253 6 Michał Choiński Samuel Blair’s Rhetoric During the Great Awakening 7 Michał Choiński Sermons That “Cut Like a Sword”: Samuel Blair’s Rhetoric During the Great Awakening Abstract: The article examines the style of Samuel Blair, a revival preacher of the Great Awak- ening who has often been omitted in the studies on the colonial pulpit tradition. Two texts by Blair, a sermon (A Perswasive to Repentance, 1743) and a revival account (A Short and Faithful Narrative, 1744) are studied rhetorically and presented as representative of the “rhetoric of the revival,” a particular mode of preaching in which the speaker employs a wide array of rhetor- ical patterns, biblical innuendos and communicative strategies aimed at eliciting emotional responses. Keywords: Samuel Blair, Great Awakening, colonial preaching The Great Awakening constituted a critical event in the history of colonial America, arguably the most formative one alongside the French and Indian War. Crowds of thousands of people, the emotional reactions of the audiences which often bordered on mass hysteria, the fervent theological debates and a surplus of publications played a significant role in the shaping of the pre-Revolutionary ecclesiastical order. Similarly, the American rhetorical tradition was strongly informed by revival developments in pulpit oratory. New forms of preaching manifested the power of the spoken word to the colonists, and propelled the dynamics of public debate in a period which was to prove vital for the development of American identity. Alongside such figures as Jonathan Edwards, or George Whitefield, who were at the forefront of the Great Awakening and whose involvement in 1eighteenth-century revivalism has been extensively studied,1 1 Since the publication of Perry Miller’s (Jonathan Edwards) and Ola Winslow’s (Jonathan Edwards) pioneering books on Edwards, a number of important studies have dedicated their attention to the significance of the Northampton divine for the Great Awakening. Edwards’s employment of figurative speech is discussed by Ralph Turnbull