Department of English Literature and Culture
Katedra Literatury i Kultury Angielskiej
Chair: Dr hab. Sławomir Wącior, Prof. KUL
• Modernism and postmodernism in British poetry and fiction
• Literature of Magical Realism
• Postcolonial literature
• Mystical poetry of the metaphysical tradition
• Anglo-American Imagist poetry
• Postmodernist splintering of identities expressed in contemporary fiction
• Narratological text analysis
• Relations between literature and art. in fiction as expressed in the literary trope of "ekphrasis"
• Construction and meaning of space in the texts (18th-21st c.) that belong to broadly understood Gothic convention
• Theoretical-semiotical, formal, and phenomenological-approach to space in literature (theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman)
• Application of Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of carnival and carnivalization, dialogicality, polyphony, heteroglossia and grotesque body in the analysis of English-language texts
• Writings of individual modernist and postmodernist writers such as: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Mark Z. Danielewski.
Ostatnia aktualizacja: 26.01.2012, godz. 13:57 - Sławomir Wącior