American Experience - The Experience of America

Contents: Agnieszka Salska: «Several of Nature's People/I know and they know me»: How American Women Poets Keep Meeting Strange and Wonderful Animals - Joanna Durczak: American Nature Writing and the Urban Experience - Zofia Kolbuszewska: Forensic Imagination and the Materiality of Experience - Tadeusz Rachwal: Nearing Thoreau - Joseph Kuhn: Henry James and the Secret - Beata Williamson: Henry James, Francis Parkman, and the Jesuits - Bartosz Lutostanski: There is more than meets the (narratorial) I. On the narrator and the experience of fiction in Henry James's «Beast in the Jungle» - Grzegorz Kosc: Forms of Power. Frost's Potraits in North of Boston and Mountain Interval - Pawel Stachura: The American Sybils: Prophecy as a Mode of Fiction Writing - Katarzyna Kuczma: Desert(ed) Experience. John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and Cormac McCarthy's The Road - Tomasz Basiuk: A Logic of Interruption. Experience and Witnessing in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives - Monika Wojdan: Confronting the Loss of the Dearest: Mark Doty, Assotto Saint, and the AIDS Elegy - Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich: The End of Neighbourhood: From a Shtetl to New York in Bernard Malamud's and Chaim Potok's Fiction - Brygida Gasztold: Introducing New Jewish Immigrants: Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis - Izabela Filipiak: The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Alaska Made in Poland - Yuri Stulov: Traumas of the Past as the Experience of the Present - Agnieszka Lobodziec: Paule Marshall's Tripartite Experience in Triangular Road: A Memoir and Its Fictitious Reconstructions - Jørgen Veisland: Memory, Time and Transcendence in Toni Morrison's Beloved - Ewelina Banka: Indigenous Experience in the Americas: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead and the Prophetic Retaking of Indian Country - Arkadiusz Misztal: Articulating the Time-Experience: Scientific and Parascientific Images of Time in Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo - Ivan Delazari: Suspension of Belief: Don DeLillo's 9/11 - Zuzanna

Andrzej Ceynowa, born 1951, is professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Gdansk (Poland). His fields of expertise include African-American literature and culture, modern American drama, and the history of censorship in the US.
Marek Wilczynski, born 1960, is professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Gdansk and the University of Warsaw (Poland). His main fields of interest are American literature and culture of the Early Republic and the antebellum period, as well as the cultural history of New England.