http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8575 2026-06-01T14:21:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8583 Tytuł: The nostalgic landscape of Miami in Susanna Daniel’s Stiltsville Autorzy: Martynuska, Małgorzata Abstrakt: The article examines the nostalgic landscape of Miami depicted in Susanna Daniel’s debut novel Stiltsville (2010). The setting of the novel is the actual community named in the title of the book and it refers to a group of houses built on pilings about a mile offshore in Biscayne Bay. The analysis proceeds according to methodology presented by the literary theorist Hana Wirth-Nesher in her article titled “Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities”, published in Handbook of Urban Studies (2001), in which she identifies four aspects of cityscape in the representation of the city in narrative: the built, the ‘natural’, the human, and the verbal. The paper discusses the nostalgic construction of the past in the novel. Nostalgic notions of preserving the past have been linked with the concepts of cultural heritage and the preservation movement. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8582 Tytuł: Aporia, vortex and the hermeneutic circle in A.S. Byatt’s The Biographer’s Tale Autorzy: Kucała, Bożena Abstrakt: Reflecting A.S. Byatt’s mistrust of the prevalence of literary theory, expressed in her own critical writings as well as in her earlier, most successful novel Possession (1990), The Biographer’s Tale (2000) recounts a literary scholar’s attempt to reach out towards a world of things, as opposed to arid theoretical concepts. However, his biographical project, undertaken as an alternative to poststructuralist studies, ends in an impasse. This article argues that, compared with the developments in Possession, the protagonist’s “liberation” from academia is far more ambiguous; his failed attempt to write a biography illustrates rather than satirises some of the dilemmas posed by literary theory. Phineas Nanson remains trapped in poststructuralist concepts which wreck his project, such as the elusiveness of the self, textual indeterminacy, and the demise of the author. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8581 Tytuł: Comparing multimodal film texts. The case of the movie Fame (1980) and its remake Fame (2009) Autorzy: Lisiecka, Anna Abstrakt: This paper focuses on the issue of comparison of two movies linked by the relationship of remaking. Its specific aim is to show that the complexity of multimodal texts, to which filmic texts and therefore remakes belong, does not prevent the analyst from examining the contrastive elements of such films and multimodal film texts in general. As a corollary, the present paper outlines a framework for a comparative multimodal analysis of two movies, the relevant illustrations coming from Fame (1980) and its remake Fame (2009). The basis of our comparative analysis is the narrative-compositional structure of filmic texts as discussed and amply illustrated in Post (2017). The sample multimodal comparative analysis presented in the last section of this paper relies on the selected instruments of Post’s (2017) proposal, Krzeszowski’s theory of contrastive analysis (1967, 1990) and Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) multimodal discourse analysis. This approach to film texts is compatible with Tabakowska’s (2001) theory of cognitive translation, the main theoretical concept of which is Langacker’s (1991) image schema, well fitting the aforementioned compositional level and the narrative-compositional of filmic texts. It is believed that with the instruments selected from the works enumerated above, it was possible to construct an interpretive model capable of revealing relevant differences and similarities between two multimodal filmic texts linked by the relationship of remaking. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/8578 Tytuł: Teacher language awareness and world Englishes – where (corpus) linguistics, digital literacy and teacher training meet Autorzy: Krajka, Jarosław Abstrakt: In the rapidly changing world of today, the role of English as a global language is not to be left unnoticed in pre-service teacher training. Teacher language awareness, encompassing knowledge of language, knowledge about language and knowledge of students, needs to be expanded with the wider sociocultural context in which language education takes place in different parts of the world. At the same time, the changes in the very shape of English and the emergence of World Englishes, New Englishes, English as an International Language and English as a Lingua Franca call for skilful implementation of these concepts in the practice-oriented teacher training module. The paper reports upon a study aiming at joining corpus-based investigations, student-made research into sociocultural context of English learning and use, coursebook analysis and lesson plan evaluation and adaptation into a single Teaching English as an International Language course included in a graduate TEFL module. Results of the study indicate that the experimental treatment brought about statistically significant, though small in effect size, changes in language awareness of prospective teachers in a great number of aspects. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z