Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech

A hundred years after his death, the life and legacy of the Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad remains deeply felt in a wide range of global cultural contexts. The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture brings together scholars of wide-ranging backgrounds to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work. Ranging from Conrad’s influence upon contemporary writers, to the impact of his translators and his adaptation within film and graphic novels, this volume illuminates how Conrad’s approach to questions of moral ambiguity and the haunting complexities of colonialism continues to inform the cultural output of our modern, globalized world.

The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture

Renata Dampc-Jarosz

Andrzej Rabsztyn

This trilingual volume focuses on acts of transgressive acting/writing in selected texts of European literatures whose authors differ in gender, nationality and time frame. Thus, the contributions collected here consider a double questioning: of difference and transgression of norms. Both concepts are set in relation to each other in order to be able to embed any transition in cultural-social-historical contexts. The analyses and interpretations of selected texts from German, French, Polish, Russian and ancient literature, presented in chronological order, show exemplary acts of transgression in different cultures and under changing time circumstances and document aesthetic attempts to revise the existing order and create a new one.

Transgressions in European Literatures

Beyond Borders

Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż

The Other and Otherness in European Literatures

Identity Issues in European Literatures - Identität und Andersartigkeit in Europäischen Literaturen - Identité et Altérité Dans les Littératures Européennes

Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech

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