The article analyzes the figure of the vampire-lust-murderer in the works of Tadeusz Konwicki, focusing on the novels Nic albo nic (1971) and Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (1984). The figure is set in the social and ...

The following article will attempt to establish an intertextual link between one of the seminal examples of Gothic literature, i.e., Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and the still relatively new medium of music video. To ...

This article explores the early artistic influences and beginnings of Tove Jansson and Walt Disney, focusing on their works’ gothic and surreal elements. Both Jansson and Disney are renowned for their contributions to ...

The two complementary aims of this article are a terminological and genological analysis of weird fiction, as well as the identification of similarities and differences between this genre and horror in cognitive-aesthetic, ...

World War I was associated with a vision that encouraged Poles to join the fight to regain independence. Romantic myths invoked in this context led to the idealization of wartime events and the heroization of those who ...

The text is a report on the 15th Open Access Seminar at the University of Lodz Library (2024, October 22). For the fifteenth time, the University of Lodz is organizing the Open Access Seminar as part of the International ...

The following article concerns Polish reportage of 20th and 21st century. The discussion focuses on the elements of fiction genres transferred into a documentary form. One of such genres is what author calls a novel of the ...