text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz The history of Batman, though nominally beginning in 1939, has much older roots. The creation of the comic book hero is disputed – whether the credit belongs to Bob Kane or Bill Fingers; although both authors cite different sources as their inspiration (Leonardo da Vinci’s drafts, Robert the Bruce, Baroness Orczy’s […]
Text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko The past is textual. It is constantly being read and reread, written and rewritten. De- and reconstructed, it may be deformed and dismissed or reclaimed and made redemptive. Despite the impossibility of its impartial examination, a spectre of objectivity still looms over many an approach to its analysis, just like the fidelity […]
Text by Magdalena Pypeć I would like to share some information regarding my upcoming publication: “Literary Criticism as Women’s Rights Activism in Anna Jameson’s Shakespeare’s Heroines” included in Female Voices: Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-Education and Writing in Britain 1770‒1830 (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté 2022). Here is a brief abstract of the chapter: The chapter seeks to examine Anna […]
