The Uncanny Tapestry of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lovely House”

The essay discusses Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lovely House” (1952), in which uncanny architecture and supernatural elements combine to express the writer’s concerns about very real horrors of domesticity and fem...

Wzniosłe, piękne i polskie. O poszukiwaniu stylu narodowego w masowych wydaniach tomików poetyckich w II Rzeczpospolitej

Twentieth‑century literary transfer was effected mainly through written and printed texts. Walter Ong He stated that ‘the condition of words in the text is very different from their condition in spoken discourse’ and gav...

Od folkloru do protez egzystencjalnych. Kulturowe znaczenie portalu Facebook.

The Third Language.

This article examines the language that we used to use in Internet communication. Traditional bilateral division into written and spoken language is inadequate nowadays. Internet speech, that I named ”third language” has...

Od subkultury do kultury DIY. Miejskie ewolucje kultury punk

The aim of this article is to show evolution of punk subculture in the context of a city. The author presents his ethnographical research on punk subculture. Punk is depicted as a two-figure movement. First figure works...