Bücher der Reihe Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture

This book examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. Issues discussed include genre syncretism, intertextuality, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalization, postcolonial literature and ethical aspects of crime fiction.

This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the French feminist uses of it known as ecriture feminine.

Exposures emphasizes the critical self-reflexivity and the personal and artistic risks characterizing gay male life writing. Focusing on more than a dozen authors, it calls on critical work by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and by Jacques Ranciere, and addresses the debates within queer theory about the antisocial turn and Tomkins's affect theory.

This collection of essays is focused on the topic of experience as a concept related to the US. The essays deal with a wide range of problems and types of representation, from experience as a component of various theoretical discourses through the experience of foreign visitors and immigrants for whom America has often been a place of the Other.

The book is a collection of essays on the historical development of the poetics of Imagism. It discusses various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy. Special attention is paid to the concepts of the image, the objective correlative, texture, and generally structure of modernist poetry.