Visions and Revisions

Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant and Marta Komsta are Assistant Professors at the Department of English Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.Anna Kędra-Kardela and Aleksandra Kędzierska are both Associate Professors at the Department of English Studies, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

• Contents: Agnieszka Romanowska: «Something to act out on a stage»: Theatrum Mundi in John Donne’s Poetry – Ewa Młynarczyk: Alfred Tennyson’s Visions of the Otherworlds and the Vocation of the Poet – Jacek Wiśniewski: Ecocriticism and Romantic Ecology: Gilbert White and John Clare – Aleksandra Kędzierska: War as Encounter: The Christmas Truce 1914 – Monika Kocot: Trickster Discourse: The Figure of Whittrick in Edwin Morgan’s Writing – Anna Walczuk: Art in the Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings – Grzegorz Czemiel: Visual Displacement and Shifts of Tone: On the Transformative Powers of Poetry in Recent Collections by Sinéad Morrissey and Zoë Skoulding – Jerzy Jarniewicz: Words, Pictures and Windows: From Alberti to Derek Mahon – Philip V. Allingham: Re-Reading Great Expectations and Re-Thinking Its Genres: The Programmes of Illustration from 1860 through 1910 – Aleksandra Tryniecka: The Bakhtinian Polyphony of Voices in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White – Aleksandra Krajewska: The Vision of Brotherhood of Man in Charles Kingsley’s Novel Alton Locke – Marlena Marciniak: The Strange Case of Mr. Paul Ferroll, A Gentleman and Murderer: The Victorian Vision of Gentlemanliness Revised – Katarzyna Sokołowska: The Dionysian in Virginia Woolf ’s Between the Acts – Andrzej Sławomir Kowalczyk: «Destructive delight»: Conceptual Blending in Charles Williams’s Vision of Satanic Rituals in War in Heaven – Jacek Mydla: Revisiting the Gothic Plot: Past-Oriented Suspense in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca – Anna Kędra-Kardela: The Gothic Space Revisited – Barbara Klonowska: Re-Visioning of the Romance Convention in the Novels by Sarah Waters – Marta Komsta: Mother London: Peter Ackroyd’s Three Brothers – Marcin Sroczyński: «Doomed Queens» in a Changing Environment: Andrew Holleran’s and Alan Hollinghurst’s Literary Visions of Gay Clubbing Communities – Wojciech Nowicki: How It Was, How It Is: Literary Histories across the Decades – Kornelia Boczkowska: New Perspectives in the U.S. Space-Oriented Philosophy: Albert Harrison’s American Cosmism as a Variation of the Russian Cosmist Thought – Anna Bugajska: Pirate Neverland: Revisioning Pirates in Geraldine McCaughrean’s Peter Pan in Scarlet – Edyta Frelik: Brushed off Words: On Artists’ Writings – Justyna Galant: Filming the Experience of Gilead: Volker Schlöndorff’s The Handmaid’s Tale – Paweł Hamera: «John Bull and Erin, the first a stout healthy boy and the latter his sister a very promising girl»: Figaro in London and the Depiction of Ireland in the 1830s – Paweł Kaptur: The Political Siding of Thomas Hobbes: Revision of Power in Leviathan – Eliza Marków: Puppies Sell: A Study of Selected Advertising Campaigns Featuring Animals – Agnieszka Matysiak: In the (Neo)Baroque Universe of Looped Voices: Lanford Wilson’s Fugue Spectacle in The Hot l Baltimore – Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Revising the Traditional Model of Journalism in the Context of Digital Media – Katarzyna Pisarska: The Dystopian Grotesque in Enki Bilal’s The Carnival of Immortals – Aleksandra Szczypa: Prospero Re-Imagined: The Character of Prospero in Modern Science Fiction – Jadwiga Uchman: Catastrophe in Philosophy (Aristotle), Mathematics (René Thom) and Drama (Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett).