Based on the Deictic Shift Theory as adopted by cognitive poetics (Stockwell 2002), this paper offers an account of fear generating mechanisms involving spatial, temporal, perceptual, relational and compositional deictic ...

This paper applies the Deictic Shift Theory (DST) — as developed within the paradigm of cognitive poetics — to the analysis of Charles Williams’s short story, Et in Sempiternum Pereant. It is argued that by employing DST ...

Alternate history, the type of fiction which describes worlds in which history developed differently than in reality, is often depreciated as a subgenre of science–fiction. Yet Polish alternate history novels are in ...

The article is a review of selected concepts concerning Polish literature of post–war resettlement of so-called Recovered Territories (1945−1989). The review allows to characterize the literary narrative about postwar ...

The paper focuses on one of the newest notions in Spanish literary theory created by Eloy Fernández Porta in his work Afterpop. La literatura de la implosión mediática (2007). The theorist reaches for the aesthetical ...

This paper aims to search for the traces of how the meter of lai interferes or cooperates with the form of a litany. The research will be conducted on the basis of medieval French literature from first paraphrases of ...

The article attempts to describe a variety of possible ways in which literature makes itself present within the space of the city. It assumes two basic perspectives to investigate the issue. First of all, the article ...