Alienation and Dislocation versus Homeliness and Norm in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley

The aim of this article is to scrutinise the problem of alienation and dislocation in the context of homeliness and norm in the United States after World War II in Patricia Highsmith’s (1921-1955) Strangers on a Train a...

„Podoba mi się, jak umierasz, chłopcze”. Django i jego Czarny Antybohater

The article discusses the phenomenon of the “Black badman” in the context of Quentin Tarantino’s film Django Unchained. A brief outline of the history of Black folktales provides the parameters for the rise of violent ta...

Ciało miarą rzeczy? Świdryga i Midryga Bolesława Leśmiana

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“REMEMBER, REFLECT, REIMAGINE”: Jews and Irish nationalism through the lens of the 1916 centenary commemorations

This paper examines popular representations of Jewish attitudes towards Irish nationalism, and the way that these have evolved in the hundred years between the Easter Rising of 1916 and its centenary commemorations in 20...