Bücher der Reihe Dis/Continuities

This feminist study of Brian Moore's five novels with eponymous heroines compares Moore's female characters to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, women in Victorian and modernist fiction, and women in the works of Canadian female writers. The book discusses Moore's biblical and film inspirations.

Language evolution is a science which studies the origins and diversification of language. This book is an introduction to the topic and is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in the study of language evolution.

Twelve papers presented at the international Conference ACED Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts, held at the University of Bucharest, Romania, in June 2015, construct a case for the expression in literature of direct and indirect ways of remaining faithful to Christianity. Modern theologians and writers are placed face to face.

The science of language evolution appeared at the end of the last century but topically belongs to language origins - the domain of investigation concerned with the beginnings and diversification of language. This book documents the whole history of language origins and situate language evolution in this wide intellectual context.

The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies, testify to a topical and disciplinary expansion of the core philological lines of research.

Examining the transfer of the Gothic to Poland-Lithuania in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, this book focuses on the influence of Ann Radcliffe on the oeuvre of Anna Mostowska. It helps to redraw the map of early Gothic by providing new insights into our understanding of its European dissemination.

Working from an analysis of the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this book unpacks an argument for considering concepts as correlates of lexical labels - for a maximally productive understanding of the relation between concepts, categories, categorisation, and their theoretical models.

The volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation. The case studies are based on research projects by graduates of the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.

The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarity which allow for the extension of the notion of community above the limitations of the human sphere and takes up Thoreau's work as early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships.

The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which provoke, challenge habitual thinking, and cross boundaries. The essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective and deal with creative acts of transgression from a broad range of fields: literature, theatre, visual art, film, and others.

This book is an introduction to the history, aesthetic and key themes of the Gothic and the approaches and theories that have been applied to Gothic texts and films. The volume explores the cultural resonances created by the genre in 18th and 19th century texts and 20th century literature and film.

The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children's literature, film, and poetry. First it focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics and award givers. It juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity.