Ryszard W. Wolny is Professor and Director of the School of English at the University of Opole and Lecturer at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław. He published extensively on British and Australian culture and literature.Zdzisław Wąsik is a semiotician and communicologist. His recent works deal with the philosophy of language and the sociolinguistic typology of discourses.

• Contents: Tadeusz Rachwał: The ugly depths: Outsides and insides in colonial discourse – Ryszard W. Wolny: Australia’s ugliness in Patrick White’s selected writings – Dorota Babilas: The innocence of ugliness: Joseph Merrick, his interpreters and the evils of late-Victorian society – Marek Błaszak: The monstrosity of agedness: The presentation of Granny in D. H. Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gipsy – Anna Branach-Kallas: Gothicizing the Wendigo: The ambivalences of monstrosity in Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden – Stephen Dewsbury: A festering rotten stench: «The Man’s» experience of post-colonial rule in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – Jacek Fabiszak: Caliban, the salvage and deformed slave: On representations of ugliness in film versions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest – Dagmara Krzyżaniak: In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context: Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh’s Bedbound – Bożena Kucała: «To embrace death»: The ageing body in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee – Barbara Leftih: «And Lord, let me die with them»: Evil, ugliness and disgrace in the selected Indian captivity narratives – Ewa Młynarczyk: Disgraceful or thought provoking? Towards a new aesthetic: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the subject matter of poetry – Tomasz Pilch: The figures darkness makes: The voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne in contemporary debates on evil – Jarosław Mihułka: Evil incarnate: The representations of Antichrist in the seventeenth-century English literature.