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Ambiguity and the Search
for Meaning:
English and American Studies
at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Volume 1: Literature
Edited by
Monika Coghen
Zygmunt Mazur
Beata Pi¡tek
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9
ELINOR SHAFFER
Seven Times Seven Types of Ambiguity: William Empson
and Twentieth-Century Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ROBERT REHDER
Meaning and Change of Form: Eliot, Pound and Niedecker . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TERENCE MCCARTHY
Ambiguity or The Eye of Mere Observation in Malory's Morte Darthur . . . . 51
Part I
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature
65
BARBARA NAPIERALSKA
The Freedom of Art, The Art of Freedom: Sir Philip Sidney's An Apologie
for Poetrie and George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie . . . . . . . . . 67
MICHAŠ CHOI‹SKI
Pathos, Logos and Ethos: Rhetorical Duel between Brutus and Antony
in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
JOANNA MOCZY‹SKA
The Anatomy of Ambiguity: Interpreting John Lyly's Euphues
. . . . . . . . . 89
CLARINDA E. CALMA
Symbolism of Light and Darkness in Selected Prose and Poetry of John Donne
. 99
KLAUDIA Š•CZY‹SKA
A Spectacle of Blood : The Art of Suffering in Andrew Marvell's
The Unfortunate Lover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Part II
CONTENTS
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
119
JOANNA MACIULEWICZ
Fanny Burney's Cecilia, or An Heiress' Search for Meaning in the World
of Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
ELEANOR SPENCER
The Ambiguity of Violence in the Poetry of Robert Browning . . . . . . . . . . 133
AGNIESZKA SETECKA
Knitting the Days Away : Needlework in Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel . . 145
ANA CRISTINA BANICERU
Lewis Carroll's Alice Books: A New Perspective
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
MONIKA MAZUREK
Going over to Rome : The Changing Attitudes towards Roman Catholicism
in Disraeli's Sybil and Lothair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Part III
Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature
177
IZABELA CURYŠŠO-KLAG
The Artist versus Commodity Culture: Wyndham Lewis and the Dilemmas
of Bourgeois-Bohemianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
IZOLDA GABRIELE GENIUSIENE
Meaning Created by the Language of Geoffrey Hill's Poetry
. . . . . . . . . . 187
OLGA GLEBOVA
Uncanny Authors, Ambiguous Tales: Meta ctional Discourse in
J. M. Coetzee's Novels Foe and The Master of Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . 199
AGNIESZKA MIKSZA
The Doer is Merely a Fiction Added to the Deed: The Deed is Everything
(F. Nietzsche). Tales of Doing Gender in Tipping the Velvet . . . . . . . . . . 211
SCOTT THURSTON
Need Keeps the Book of Dying Open : Negative Capability in Gil Ott's
The Whole Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
CONTENTS
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STEPHEN REGAN
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney and the Ambiguous Politics of the Cease re . . . 229
ANNA WALCZUK
Un nished Narratives of Sparkian Finishing School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
EWA SZYMA‹SKA-SABALA
The Cons and Pros of Being Dead: The Meaning of Life and Language
in Hotel World by Ali Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
BEATA PI•TEK
The Waxworks of Memory or the Search for the Meaning of Life
in John Banville's The Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Part IV
American Literature
269
’ÁRKA BUBÍKOVÁ
Ambiguous Heritage and the Search for Identity in Native American Fiction
. . 271
MICHAŠ PALMOWSKI
Instilling the Sentiment: The Poetic Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson . . . . 283
DANUTA ROMANIUK
The Jewish Other Half: Girlhood on the Lower East Side as Presented
in Immigrant Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
LYUBA PERVUSHINA, RICHARD R. E. KANIA
Raymond Chandler and His Ambiguous Relationships to Women: A Search
for Hidden Meanings within His Crime Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
KATARZYNA HAUZER
Ambiguity and the Grotesque: History, Humor, and McCarthyism in Joseph
Heller's Catch-22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
JULIE CAMPBELL
The Legacy of Samuel Beckett in Paul Auster's Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
DAMIAN PODLE‘NY
Media Simulation and Manipulation in Two Novels of Philip K. Dick
from the 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
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Part V
CONTENTS
Comparative Literature
349
BARTŠOMIEJ BŠASZKIEWICZ
The Motif of Darkness in John Dowland's In Darkness Let Me Dwell
and George Harrison's Beware of Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
MARGARETE RUBIK
Hyperbole and Understatement in the Depiction of the Emotions
. . . . . . . . 361
MONIKA COGHEN
Byronic Outcasts and Polish Exiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
CLAUDIA IOANA DOROHOLSCHI
Weak Authorities: Authorship and Meaning in the 1890s
. . . . . . . . . . . . 387
GRA›YNA BRANNY
The Pearl Effect : Familial Taboos of the South in E. A. Poe, E. Glasgow,
P. Taylor and W. Faulkner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
IB JOHANSEN
Spooky Houses in Western Fiction: From Poe's House of Usher
to Danielewski's House of Leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
PAUL TITCHMARSH
Myth and Reality: Points of Departure in American Literature and Culture
in the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
WOLFGANG GÖRTSCHACHER
Michael Hamburger's Crusade against Ignorance and Prejudice: German Poetry
and the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441