text by Dorota Osińska When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two centuries later, Florence + the Machine released ‘Kraken’ (Everybody Scream, 2025), a song that (consciously or not) reanimates this mythic beast […]
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 Grażyna Bystydzieńska This book was written as a doctoral thesis for the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, in 2022 but sadly, Ewa Młynarczyk died before she was able to take her doctoral examinations and complete the procedures for the award of the degree. In her Preface, Ewa Młynarczyk wrote: “ For […]
