Charles Russell is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey (USA), where he was Director of American Studies and Associate Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience.Arne Melberg gained his PhD in Literature at the University of Stockholm (Sweden) and is now Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo (Norway).Jarosław Płuciennik is Professor Ordinarius of the Humanities at the Chair of Theory of Literature at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Łódź (Poland) with specialization in literary culture, cognitive semiotics, and new media of reading.Michał Wróblewski is a PhD student at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of Lódź (Poland). He has published on pop culture, cognitive cultural studies and critical theory.

• Contents: Ewa Kraskowska: A Critique of Criticism – Paweł Łuków: Kant’s Redefinition of Reason: Criticism, Freedom, Enlightenment – Elżbieta Winiecka: Distance - the Figure of Modernity – Marek Kaźmierczak: Literary Theory as Critical Epistemology and Deontology: Notes on the Concerns in Fiction in Relation to the Images of the Holocaust in Mass Media – Olga Płaszczewska: Comparative Literature: Metacriticism and its Paradoxes – Danuta Ulicka: The Protocol and the Magazine. Two Styles of Literary Criticism in the So-called Russian Formalism – Danuta Szajnert: The Subversive Potential of an Apocryphon – Natalia Lemann: Could We Conserve Ourselves From the Past? Alternates Histories and Uchronias as Literary Apories of Politics and Historical Knowledge – Magdalena Bednarek: Leaving the Tower. Feminist Rewriting of Fairy Tales in the Contemporary Polish Prose since 1989 – Izabella Adamczewska: The Ecological Novel as a Critical Genre – Michał Wróblewski: The Evolutionary Potential of Metacriticality in Reference to «Watchmen» - the Graphic Novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – Agnieszka Karpowicz: Logo-visual Genres. From Criticism of Language to Social Critique.