text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This volume is the eighth in our series, but also, in a few ways, the first. E.g., it is the first one available in Open Access! Here’s a fragment of the Foreword: In the previous volume in this series, the editors – Grażyna Bystydzieńska andEmma Harris – noted that in a […]
text by Grażyna Bystydzieńska The book is based on Ewa’s MA dissertation written under my supervision in 2008. Ewa suggested the topic of her dissertation herself as she was interested in adaptation of mythology and legends by the Victorian poets and she wanted to show how the new cultural context of a different epoch changed […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This question has motivated numerous texts – plays, novels, short stories, parodies, pastiches, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – and apparently both their creators and the audiences are still fascinated with its (im)possible outcomes. Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper have developed in parallel and, up […]
