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 ...

This paper concerns the relation between twentieth-century model of an elegy (analyzed on the example of Rainer Maria Rilke’s works) and Zbigniew Herbert’s Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp. Similarities and ...

The paper discusses refocalization as a strategy of rewriting in the literary apocrypha (D. Szajnert). Refocalization, that is based on G. Genette and H. Jenkins’ conclusions, refers to the shift from the perspective and ...

This article reviews the various ways in which Julian Przyboś dealt with genre conventions in his poetry. He used old forms of prose poetry, reworked the convention of hymn, ode and sonnet, wrote lullabies and rhymes, ...

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 ...