Putting Crisis in Perspective

Artur Skweres Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He received his D.Litt. in literary studies from the School of English of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He has participated in numerous international conferences and has received Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in 2011 and 2020. His academic interests comprise English and American literature, humor and comedy, media ecology, film adaptations, and film in foreign language teaching. His hobby and passion is studying foreign languages. His recent publications include the monographs: The relationship between oneiric and pragmatic play in Mark Twain’s works (Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2019) and McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film. Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought (2019) published by Springer as a part of Second Language Learning and Teaching. Issues in Literature and Culture series edited by Mirosaw Pawlak.

• 1. The playful response to crisis caused by print culture in magical world of the ear in Washington Irvings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its 1999 film adaptation.- 2. The clash of divergent political strategies, moral categories and literary conventions in the early fifteenth century poetry. Mum and the Sothsegger as a reflection of the tensions within the crisis-ridden late medieval society.- 3. The crisis appearing in the construal of the mediaeval concepts of truth, soth and faith in The Canterbury Tales with their contemporary counterparts.- 4. Different shades of crisis in selected advertising messages.- 5. Human and space. Images of conflict in the Levant Trilogy project by Rita Leistner.- 6. The influence of the feeling of crisis and anxiety on high school students oral performance.