English Voices and Echoes
dc.contributor.author | Weretiuk, Oksana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-21T19:34:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-01-21T19:34:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description | Publishing HOUSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RZESZOW has received permission from following publishers: Brill, Peter Lang, Ibidem-Verlag, Wenshan Review of Literature & Culture (Taipei-Dublin) to reprint the works marked with an author’s comment with references to the first source, the original. | |
dc.description.abstract | The aim of the book is to reach students, researchers, and the wider community of readers. However, its main purpose is to present the diverse voices of literatures written in English and point at similar features between them and those more distant from them – linguistically, culturally and geographically – Ukrainian and Polish literatures. I metaphorically called the latter “echoes”- as a close parallel to the ideas, feeling, or events. A cultural terrain covering a large part of Europe and North America is offered, unfortunately too often disturbed by the dangerous channels of political history. The book contains 16 essays addressing how writing in English constructs the narratives of ethnic identity, home and belonging, earth-man relations, human-animal bonds, dramatic historical events. Moreover, a comparison with selected Slavic literatures highlights these specific national accents in the discussed works by English, Irish, Canadian and American writers. This approach proves helpful for studying literature across linguistic and cultural boundaries. The First Chapter introduces the issues concentrated on English literature itself, and it is opened with an article written 15 years ago, about Andrzej Tretiak, the outstanding Polish professor of the interwar period, expert in English literature, comparatist, who was the first in Poland to define the characteristic, definitive features of English literature. Chapter Two discusses the concepts of Irish literature, mostly in comparison with Ukrainian literature and in reference to the dramatic historical events of both nations, including some Polish accents. In Chapter Three the literary concepts of the formation of multicultural Canadian identity and Canadian literature in English are discussed as well as the phenomenon of Canadian prairie poetry (Andy Suknaski) and native Cree artist (Allan Sapp). Chapter Four deals with some issues of comparative studies in reference to literatures in English. Therefore, my research has an international character and focuses on critical understanding of how literatures differ from one another (even those written in the same English language) and what those differences mean. The book includes some articles published a long time ago, and many of them were written for the current edition. They will summarize my almost twenty-year work as a comparative scholar at the English Department of the University of Rzeszów. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.15584/978-83-8277-215-9 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-8277-215-9 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repozytorium.ur.edu.pl/handle/item/11212 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.title | English Voices and Echoes | |
dc.type | book |
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