The Place of Folklore within the Construction of the Contemporary World.

The paper answers the question, how folkloristic narrations participate in the social construction of reality. The notion of folklore relates here -in accordance with propositions of P.G. Bogatyrev and R. Jakobson – to p...

Kanibalizm jako metafora w komunikacji masowej

The Home and the Asylum. Antebellum Representations of True Womanhood in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables

This paper presents an analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables regarding his depiction of the nineteenth-century ideals of femininity: the cult of true womanhood and dome...

The Inverted Discourse of Wonder in Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans

The article discusses Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans, a famous account of the writer’s travel in the United States undertaken in the 1820s, and focuses on the language it employs to describe the you...

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Doll-house Homicides, Foster Families, and the Subversion of Domesticity in CSI: Las Vegas

The article explores similarities and divergencies in how The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, doll-house style dioramas built by Frances Glessner Lee in the 1930s and 1940s in order to train homicide detectives, a...