Sławomir Studniarz

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• Professor at University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

This article focuses on Poe's short stories that, I argue, are relevant for the ecological concerns of the first decades of the twenty-first century: "The Colloquy of Monos and Una," "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion," "The Island of the Fay," and "The Domain of Arnheim." As the "greenness" in the title suggests, my purpose here is to reexami...

This article examines the impact of Schelling’s philosophy, especially his concept of the Absolute, on two of Poe’s tales: “Morella” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” It begins with a focused overview of Schelling’s chief doctrines, in particular his famous system of identity, and because this system was forged under the influence of Spinoza’s...

This article discusses All Our Names , the 2014 novel by Dinaw Mengestu, an Ethiopian-born, American immigrant writer. The narrative focuses on two figures: a young Ethiopian dreamer caught in the postcolonial military struggle in Uganda who later seeks safe haven in the US, and a single white American woman in her early thirties named Helen, a soc...

Beckett’s translations of his own poems from French into English puzzle both his admirers and his devoted scholars. Marjorie Perloff was the first to draw attention to the disparity between the French originals and their subsequent rendering in English, on the example of “je suis ce cours de sable qui glisse” and “my way is in the sand flowing.” As...

The article examines E. L. Doctorow's novella Andrew's Brain, dealing with personal loss and the national disaster of the attack on the World Trade Center. The novella exposes the trauma of history and its shattering effect on human consciousness. Keywords: trauma, disaster, confession, archive, intertext

The chapter takes as its starting point the issue of Poe’s problematic status in the canon of American literature and the generally mixed reception of his works in his native country. T. S. Eliot’s ambivalent attitude toward Poe’s writing and his perplexity in the face of Poe’s appreciation in Europe is examined in depth. It is argued that Eliot’s...

The aim of the article is to re-examine the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe from the perspective of the third decade of the 21st century. The starting point is a brief discussion of its complicated reception in the USA and Great Britain as well as its strikingly vivid presence in the contemporary culture. However, the main argument centres on ho...

This article engages with the aspects "The Tell-Tale Heart" that account for its relevance for contemporary culture and society. It will be argued that its Gothic grotesquery harbors much sense: the bizarre stunts perpetrated by its demented narrator offer insight into the modern frame of mind, and the mechanisms underlying the apparatus of a disci...

In this article I present my experience of translating Poe’s stories into Polish from a professional and personal perspective. I trace the publication history of my translations, from the first edition, which appeared in 2002, to the most recent expanded volume, dating from 2021. I also discuss the Polish reception of Poe’s tales and the inaccuraci...

The present article is devoted to the exposition of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics as formulated and exemplified in the key poems from Echo’s Bones: “The Vulture”, “Alba”, and “Dortmunder”. These texts emerge as poetic manifestos, in which Beckett explores the sources and materials of poetry, and addresses broader philosophical questions about poetry...

The subject of the article is the 2006 novel Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster, which contains an embedded story, presenting the alternative history of the USA. The article aims to demonstrate that Auster's novel offers a revision of two essential myths of the American nation. The precise moment in the history of the USA that Auster's novel...

The premise of the article is the contention that Beckett studies have been focused too much on the philosophical, cultural and psychological dimensions of his established canon, at the expense of the artistry. That research on Beckett's work is issue-driven rather than otherwise, and the slender extant body of criticism specifically on his poetic...

The subject of the article is the 2006 novel Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster, which contains an embedded, alternative history of the USA. The article aims to demonstrate that Auster’s novel offers a revision of two essential myths of the American nation. The precise moment in the history of the USA that Auster’s novel reinvents is the tim...

The article is devoted to the mystical elements and allusions surfacing in Poe's "analytical, "angelic," and "landscape" tales: "A Descent into the Maelström," "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Domain of Arnheim," "Landor's Cottage," "Mesmeric Revelation," "The Colloquy of Monos and Una," "The Conversation of Eiros and C...

Compared to the studies of Poe's fictional prose, the dearth of book-length studies devoted solely to his poetry and offering fresh, revisionary perspectives on Poe's poetic oeuvre as a whole, is surprising. One of the probable causes of this critical neglect, pointed out by several scholars, for instance, Dwayne Thorpe, Kent Ljungquist, and most r...

The Question of Rendering the Addressee in the Polish Translations of Song of Myself by Walt Whitman The subject of the article is the question of rendering the addressee in the Polish translations of Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, in which a certain indeterminacy in the shaping of the recipient can be observed. The crucial distinction between the...

The aim of this article is to tackle the controversial issue of sound dimension in Poe’s poetry in the context of Poe’s own aesthetic views and influential German Romantic theories of poetry and its relation to music. The main thrust of the argument is to question the opinion, still persisting in some critical quarters, about Poe as overly preoccup...