This article discusses the basic types of concepts of quality occurring in Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. These terms refer to the different conceptual domains, creating ...

This piece of work presents an introduction to the research in Anton Chekhov’s prose based on Theory of Mind. By employing this theory one may gain a new approach to the research in narration and heroes and also a way ...

The present article attempts at a critical discussion of taxonomical proposals of British scholar Farah Mendlesohn included in her study Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008). The study in question can be probably regarded as the ...

presented review of the cyber memes` definition is claimed to be incomplete, however, helps to show the main difficulties connected with the attempt to use the term (which has rather long and tempestuous history) to ...

The article is the first Polish attempt to provide a theoretical framework for a relatively unknown term ‘allotopia’, coined by Umberto Eco in essay Il mondi della fantascienza. However, instead of following rather ...

This article discusses The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole as the first gothic work dramatizing, through the theme of “usurpation”, the emergence of the new but “greedy” bourgeoisie in England in the eighteenth century ...

Ernst Wiechert was one of the most important representatives of German inner emigration. Nowadays he is almost entirely forgotten. The aim of this article is to show his literary output according to his own memoirs Jahre ...

The author’s objective is to discuss two different genres of the seventeenth century ephemeral papers which Konrad Zawadzki, the researcher of the origins of the Polish press, has included in a common group of so called ...

Cognitive literary research began to emerge in the 1980s when cognitive linguists discovered that numerous basic processes of human thinking could be revealed and studied within the field of literature. The study presents ...