Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Michael Irwin
Literature and the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Terence McCarthy
Much Ado About Not: Crossing Arthurian Borders . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Wayne Franklin
Fenimore Cooper’s „Indians” and the „Category of Human Rights” . . . 39
Christoph Houswitschka
Crossing Eastern Borders in English Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Krystyna Strzebońska
Fear and Fame: Crossing the Threshold of Death in Anglo-Saxon Poetry 75
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez
By the Window Sill: Margery Kempe and the Art of Praying . . . . . . 89
Martha Oberle
What Have We Here? The Gis of the Shepherds in Prima
and Secunda Pastorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Dominika Ruszkiewicz
„Welcum of Scotland to be ene”: Margaret Tudor in the Poetry
of Her Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik
„A Signe of Discontent”: Free Speech, Silence and Treason
in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Joanna Maciulewicz
The Representation of Print Culture in Areopagitica, The Bale
of the Books and The Dunciad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Anna Bugajska
Singleton, Or, There and Back Again: The (Mono)myth of a Pirate . . . 169
Joel Burnell
Jonathan Edwards and the Beauty of Work: A Colonial American
Argument for Social Responsibility in the Workplace . . . . . . . . . . 183
Ib Johansen
Tricksters in Philosophy and Fiction: From William Blake
to the Postmodern Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Anna Paluchowska-Messing
Probing with Words at What Lies Beyond Them: Frances Burney’s
Mastectomy Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Anna Stanisz
The Semantics of Sense & Sensibility: The Meaning of the Title Words
in Jane Austen’s Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Monika Mazurek
Roman Catholicism as the Uncanny in the Victorian Protestant Novel . 245
Agata Kowol
„The Charm of the Universal Experience from which One Expects an
Uncommon and Personal Sensation”: Pursuit of Self-Knowledge in
Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow-Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Caterina Maria Grasl
(Un)writing Imperial Minds: Mental Images, Narrative Strategy, and
Anti-Imperialism in Selected Novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner . . . 273
Damian Podleśny
Beyond the Border of Cognition: Deception, Paranoia,
and Conspiracy Theories in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick . . . . . . . . 291
Monika Kozub
Northern Voices: Stewart Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Magdalena Wąsowicz
„It’s Vital to Remember Always That You Are Hungarian”: The Role of
Cultural Memory in The Storyteller by Anna Porter . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Maciej Wieczorek
„None of This Is the Truth, It’s Just People Saying Things”: Blurring
the Border Between the Fictional and the Real in Dennis Kelly’s
Taking Care of Baby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Aleksandra Tryniecka
Syrie James’ The Secret Diaries of Charloe Brontë and the Biography
Retold: Reducing the Distance Between the Reader and the Past . . . . 347
Barbara Poważa-Kurko
Philip Pullman’s Version of the Gospels in The Good Man Jesus
and the Scoundrel Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Marek Pawlicki
Crossing Borders of the Self: Confessional Discourse in John
Banville’s Eclipse and Ancient Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Zygmunt Mazur
Missing „the Noun for Standing in Mist by a Haunted Tree”:
Language and Loss in W.S. Merwin’s The Rain in the Trees . . . . . . . 387
Bartosz Stopel
The Limits of Literary Language: Analytic Aesthetics and Cognitive
Approaches to Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399