Tayeb Salehs 1969 narrative, Season oj Migration to the North, is often categorized as a novel, a form that Mary Layoun considers a *colonizing genre”, and which is more familiar among Season's global readership than ...

Performativity, as defined by Judith Butler, is a means of analysis that focuses on the dynamic constitution of a subject, rather than focusing on the end result alone. The postperformative rut, into which criticism of ...

The diary as an independent genre has not yet received the large attention of the autobiography in literary theory. Therefore, in this paper a number of theoretical reflections must be addressed to examine the characteristics ...

The article undertakes the problem connected with the taxonomy of non-mimetic literature in the context of complex relationship between literature and culture. At the beginning, it briefly discusses what appears to be ...

This article applies to the interpretation of Jacek Podsiadło's poetry in terms of the lyrical intimate-diary. The lyrical intimate-diary is a sub-genre, which is the result of contamination of an autobiographical lyrical ...

In this part of my text I propose a thesis, that in The Painted Bird presented world is crucially molded by the grotesque pattern, which bares nature of reality as a place evoking repugnance. Next I consider comic element ...