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Number 11 (2021) Literature and Security / Bodies, Traumas, Transgressions / Pop Cultural Encounters

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Professor Dorota Filipczak In Memoriam
Alison Jasper

Editorial: Literature and Security
Liam Francis Gearon

“Brought up to Live Double Lives”: Intelligence and Espionage as Literary and Philosophical Figures in Ciaran Carson’s Exchange Place and For All We Know
Grzegorz Czemiel

Shibboleths of Grief: Paul Muldoon’s “The Triumph”
Wit Pietrzak

Northern Ireland’s Interregnum. Anna Burns’s Depiction of a (Post)-Troubles State of (In)security
Ryszard Bartnik

“. . .delivered from the lie of being truth”: The Affective Force of Disinformation, Stickiness and Dissensus in Randy Ribay’s Patron Saints of Nothing
Vincent Pacheco and Jeremy De Chavez

Transforming the Ich-Du to the Ich-Es: The Migrant as “Terrorist” in Kabir Khan’s New York and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Minu Susan Koshy

Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
Anna Reglińska-Jemioł

Aligning with Sociopaths: Character Engagement Strategies in Highsmith’s and Minghella’s Talented Mr. Ripleys
Lech Zdunkiewicz

Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid
Philip Hayward

From Romero to Romeo—Shakespeare’s Star-Crossed Lovers Meeting Zombedy in Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies
Magdalena Cieślak

Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic
Nurten Birlik

Hercule Poirot and the Tricky Performers of Stereotypes in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Kenneth Eckert

Dystopias in the Realm of Popular Culture: Introducing Elements of Posthuman and Postfeminist Discourse to the Mass Audience Female Readership in Cecelia Ahern’s Roar (2018)
Katarzyna Ostalska

Performing More-Than-Human Corporeal Connections in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture
Justyna Stępień

“Never Trust a Survivor”: Historical Trauma, Postmemory and the Armenian Genocide in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard
Alicja Piechucka

“My Monster Self”: Violence and Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder
Nahid Fakhrshafaie and Alireza Bahremand

Narrative, Insecure Equilibrium and the Imperative to Understand: A Hermeneutics of Woundedness
Małgorzata Hołda

Tragic Victims of Mania a Potu (“Madness from Drink”): A Study of Literary Nineteenth-Century Female Drunkards
Irina Rabinovich

The Gospel of Divine Mercy in King Lear
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska

Griselda’s Afterlife, or the Relationship between Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and the Tale of Magic
Andrzej Wicher

Mesmerization with the Lights On: Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
Robert Tindol

One Hundred Frogs in Steve McCaffery’s The Basho Variations
Monika Kocot

Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink
Chhandita Das and Priyanka Tripathi

Episodic Literary Movement and Translation: Ideology Embodied in Prefaces
Mir Mohammad Khademnabi

A Review of Agnieszka Łowczanin, A Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic: Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe (Peter Lang, 2018)
David Punter

Thinking about Thinking Nothing: A Review of Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism (MIT P, 2019)
Pedro Querido

“Whenever there’s too much technology”: A Review of Don DeLillo’s The Silence (Scribner, 2020)
Mark Tardi

A Review of Natalie Crohn Schmitt, Performing Commedia dell’Arte, 1570–1630 (Routledge, 2019)
Piotr Morawski

Editors

Past Editor-in-Chief: Dorota Filipczak (1963–2021), University of Lodz
Current Chief Editors: Agata Handley, University of Lodz; Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz
Guest Editor: Liam Francis Gearon, University of Oxford

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ISSN: 2083–2931

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