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Annie Proulx

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.

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Bitnicy

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Unconventional biographies, interesting characters and individual talents of the most important American writers born at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s and belonging to the Beat Generation. The publication presents the profiles and works of the authors who became the icons of the Beat Generation, so-called the second lost generation of the young, vulnerable Americans, rebelling for freedom like in “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg. The title Beatniks are, among others: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Johnson, Diane di Primy and Richard Brautigan.

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Cormac McCarthy

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A book from the “Masters of American Literature” series, devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy, considered one of the four most important contemporary American novelists. His early novels are part of the literary tradition of the South, and they reflect the fact that the writer’s roots are firmly embedded in archetypal, symbolic, and mythical constructions. In his later works he refers to the Western style.

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David Foster Wallace

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The first Polish study on the work of one of the most significant American authors of the turn of the centuries offers an overview of Wallace's oeuvre featuring its major themes, recurrent in a variety of contexts, important philosophical influences, and characteristic qualities of his poetics.

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Ernest Hemingway

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This collection of essays reflects the directions of contemporary criticism of Hemingway’s prose and represents diverse critical strands and approaches. Aiming at critical variety over consensus, the authors demonstrate the rich legacy of the master from Key West and hope to convince the reader that Hemingway’s prose can still hold its appeal.

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James Baldwin

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book is devoted to the works of James Baldwin, one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. The authors examine his most important contributions – including novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and media appearances – in the wider context of American history. They demonstrate the lasting importance of his oeuvre, which was central to the Civil Rights Movement and continues to be relevant at the dawn of the twenty-first century and the Black Lives Matter era.

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Poeci Szkoły Nowojorskiej

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This publication contains essays devoted to the poetry of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest – poets whose talents flourished in the rich environment of the 1950’s and 1960’s New York, when a complex intersection of artistic and institutional influences led to the outburst of an avant-garde renaissance.

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Susan Sontag

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The volume offers a comprehensive presentation of Susan Sontag's writing. Her works have been situated within a range of contexts, and the theoretical underpinnings of the articles reflect major critical approaches to Sontag. Her writings remain relevant despite the passage of time and continue to provoke discussions. They contain complex analyses of important American cultural phenomena of the second half of the 20th century.

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Thomas Pynchon

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Thomas Pynchon is an acclaimed American writer associated with postmodernism. His fiction offers complex insights into the social, cultural and political dimensions of American life, describing a variety of important phenomena, such as the invasion of entertainment industry, the expansion of new technologies, the strengthening of regimes within apparently democratic establishments. Pynchon dissects the linguistic mechanisms of communication and of shaping human consciousness.

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Toni Morrison

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An analysis of the works of the most prominent African American female writer of the 20th century, Toni Morrison, who received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and was the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Prize (1993). In her works, Morrison draws attention to the rich African American culture and history, as well as American racial heritage, with a particular focus on women’s issues.

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Series:Mistrzowie literatury amerykańskiej