Books in the Encounters. the Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts series

Frederick Rolfe wanted to influence how others see him both by his behaviour and his literary output. The biography The Quest for Corvo skewed the image he wanted to project. This work analyses the impression Rolfe attempted to create of himself in his fiction and discusses the image projected by his correspondence and the biographical work on him.

On guard against reductive statements and aware of the danger of blurring historical differences, this book encourages the reader to enter the dialogue between postcolonial studies and discourses on race and ethnicity.

Analyzes art criticism on Abstract Expressionism, lauded as the triumph of American painting. This book traces the ways in which the movement's meaning has been construed and constructed in reference to the changing cultural and political framework.

The author analyses Victorian literary criticism as a rich source of contemporary interpretative ideas. She follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson's The Princess through the prism of their critical ideas.

Frank O'Hara's poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art, the former movement directly relevant to understanding his work. The book includes historical contextualization as well as practical criticism.

This book explores the significance of photography for Iain Sinclair's London prose. It argues that the visual medium's role extends beyond that of a literary theme to a literary principle. This interdisciplinary study uses photography theory to explore the correlation between its key concepts and Sinclair's unique brand of literature.

Multidisciplinary readings of social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food, carried out within cultural and literary studies, including memory studies, discourse analysis theory, theories of visual design and theories of popular culture.