Ernst Wiechert was one of the most important representatives of German inner emigration. Nowadays he is almost entirely forgotten. The aim of this article is to show his literary output according to his own memoirs Jahre ...

This paper aims to show that, by attempting in his play Wielopole, Wielopole to reconstruct images of his family home and home town recorded in his memory, Tadeusz Kantor in fact poses an extraordinarily universal problem ...

The present article attempts at a critical discussion of taxonomical proposals of British scholar Farah Mendlesohn included in her study Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008). The study in question can be probably regarded as the ...

This article discusses The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole as the first gothic work dramatizing, through the theme of “usurpation”, the emergence of the new but “greedy” bourgeoisie in England in the eighteenth century ...

The article contains a generic analysis of a traditional South African farm novel (plaasroman) including current reception of this genre within contemporary post-colonial fiction. A classic plaasroman was based on social ...

The article presents a multifaceted analysis of the underresearched complex relations of the works by Czesław Miłosz and the poetics and philosophical ‘legacy’ of haiku. Firstly, the author examines the haiku-like texts ...