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This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare's Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its contemporary film adaptations are dealt with, just as Joseph Merrick's innocence of ugliness and Swinburne's aesthetic transgressions of the late-Victorian period are discussed. Moreover, D. H. Lawrence's monstrosity of agedness is examined, as well as postcolonial discourses of ugliness in Patrick White, J. M. Coetzee and the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. The volume also contains essays on representations of American Indian captivity narratives, on Nathaniel Hawthorne's voice in the debate on evil, and on In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context, i.e. Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh's Bedbound.
List of contents
Contents: Tadeusz Rachwal : The ugly depths: Outsides and insides in colonial discourse - Ryszard W. Wolny: Australia's ugliness in Patrick White's selected writings - Dorota Babilas: The innocence of ugliness: Joseph Merrick, his interpreters and the evils of late-Victorian society - Marek Blaszak: The monstrosity of agedness: The presentation of Granny in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy - Anna Branach-Kallas: Gothicizing the Wendigo: The ambivalences of monstrosity in Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden - Stephen Dewsbury: A festering rotten stench: "The Man's" experience of post-colonial rule in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Jacek Fabiszak : Caliban, the salvage and deformed slave: On representations of ugliness in film versions of Shakespeare's The Tempest - Dagmara Krzyzaniak: In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context: Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh's Bedbound - Bozena Kucala : "To embrace death": The ageing body in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee - Barbara Leftih: "And Lord, let me die with them": Evil, ugliness and disgrace in the selected Indian captivity narratives - Ewa Mlynarczyk: Disgraceful or thought provoking? Towards a new aesthetic: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the subject matter of poetry - Tomasz Pilch: The figures darkness makes: The voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne in contemporary debates on evil - Jaroslaw Mihulka: Evil incarnate: The representations of Antichrist in the seventeenth-century English literature.
About the author
Ryszard W. Wolny is Professor and Director of the School of English at the University of Opole and Lecturer at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroc¿aw. He published extensively on British and Australian culture and literature.
Zdzis¿aw W¿sik is a semiotician and communicologist. His recent works deal with the philosophy of language and the sociolinguistic typology of discourses.
