Founded In    2003
Published   annually
Affiliated Organization   Polish Association for American Studies
     
Editorial Board

Managing Editor: Marek Paryz

Editorial Board: Zofia Kolbuszewska, Zuzanna Ladyga, Pawel Stachura, Patrycja Antoszek, Karolina Krasucka

Advisory Committee: Andrzej Dakowski, Joanna Durczak, Jerzy Kutnik, Zbigniew Mazur, Zbigniew Lewicki, Elzbieta Oleksy, Agata Preis-Smith, Agnieszka Salska, Piotr Skurowski, Tadeusz Slawek

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Articles should not exceed 5,000 words, and reviews of current publications 3,000 words.

Please follow the MLA bibliographical convention

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Marek Paryz
American Literature Department
University of Warsaw
ul. Nowy Swiat 4
00-497 Warszawa, Poland
E-mail: m.a.paryz@uw.edu.pl

Deadline for each year’s submissions is open.
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Polish Journal for American Studies

Thanks to the generous support of the Polish-American Fulbright Committee, Polish Association for American Studies is pleased to announce that starting with the year 2003 Polish Journal for American Studies will be published as an annual academic periodical devoted to various aspects of American civilization and culture. Each issue will include articles and reviews of publications in the fields of American Studies and American literature.

 

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2012, 6

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The Love Song of Jeffrey Aspern Prufrock


"It is the argument of this paper that Prufrock, unlike Jay Gatsby, did not spring from a Platonic conception of himself␣or full-blow from the brow of his creator␣but from a forebear created by the American writer whom Eliot most admired, Henry James. Because literary critics tend to deal with either poetry or fiction, there has been very little written about the relationship between these two towering innovators who bear such striking similarities."

The Girl of the Golden West: European and American Fictions of California after the U.S. Conquest


The article discusses the representation of California in David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West as an example of the American mythology.

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Comparative analysis of Crane, Rimbaud, and Proust.

"An Abrupt Impression of Familiarity": Ethnic Projection in Arthur Miller's Work


The article reviews the theme of Italian and Jewish ethnicity in Miller's View from the Bridge, and selected short stories and biographical meterial.

Richard Nixon's Campaign Rhetoric of Anti-Communism


"The aim of this paper is to analyze President Richard Nixon's political campaign discourse to show that as a campaigner Nixon went through several distinct phases, which do not merely form a chronological sequence but show his evolution as a cam- paigner who consistently and consciously employed rhetorical tools to reach his goals. The paper contends that each phase can be identified with a few most representative choices of rhetorical forms. Tracing the rhetorical devices in his congressional and senatorial campaign discourses, one discovers that Nixon was unmatched in keeping his opponents on the defensive through the use of insinuations based on the principles of guilt by association, half-truths, and outright lies."

After the End of Man: John A. Williams's The Man Who Cried I Am


"Turning their exile into a journey into the origin of Western racism, black writers challenged a number of concepts and ideological frameworks which, according to them, constituted the founda- tions of European modernity. A major concept that underwent a disfigurement and re- configuration was that of humanism."

Poetry from a Shoebox: Cooking, Food and Black American Experience in Nikki Giovanni's Poetry


The article discusses food imagery in Nikki Giovanni's later poetry. "Implemented as central metaphors in her work, they add to the diversity of black experi- ence and allow the poet to reflect on the physical and cultural survival of African Ameri- cans within an oppressive white order␣thus, they testify to the black experience of America."

Review of Text Matters. A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture


Review of a new journal published by Łódź University Press

Glenda R. Carpio and Werner Sollors, eds., African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges.


Review of a special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 55.4 (2010)

Mirosława Bucholtz, Henry James i sztuka auto/biografii [Henry James and the Art of Biography. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2011.


Book review

Gordon M. Poole, ed., A Hundred Years After: New Light on Francis Marion Craw- ford. Sorrento: Franco Di Mauro Editore, 2011.


Book review.

Miriam B. Mandel, ed., Hemingway and Africa. New York: Camden House, 2011.


Book review

Brygida Gasztold, Negotiating Home and Identity in Early 20th-Century Jewish- American Narratives


Book review

David Sanders, A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance.


Book review

Kristen Case, American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emer- son to Susan Howe.


Book review

Ewa Barbara Luczak, How Their Living Outside America Affected Five African American Authors: Towards a Theory of Expatriate Literature.


Book review

Beata Zawadka, Dixie jest kobieta. Proza Petera Taylora


Book review

Patrycja Antoszek, The Carnivalesque Muse: The New Fiction of Robert Coover.


Book review

Benny Pock, Mediality, Cybernetics, Narrativity in the American Novel after 1960.


Book review

Agnieszka Matysiak's and Małgorzata Miciuła's Innovative Studies on Visuality in Gaddis and Diagetic Space


Book review of two volumes in a new series from the Catholic University in Lublin, Studies in Literature and Culture. Agnieszka Matysiak, The Backstage as the Diegetic Space in the (Neo)Gothic Dramas. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2010. 128 pages. Małgorzata Miciuła, (W)holes in the Eyes/I's: William Gaddis's The Recognitions from the Neo-Baroque Perspective. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2010. 124 pages.

Birgit Dawes, Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel.; Sven Cvek, Towering Figures: Reading the 9/11 Archive.


Book reviews

Michael Butter, Patrick Keller, and Simon Wendt, eds., Arnold Schwarzenegger: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Body and Image.


Book review

Hans-Jurgen Grabbe, David Mauk, and Ole Moen, eds., "E pluribus unum" or "E pluribus plura": Unity and Diversity in American Culture


Book review

Jerzy Durczak and Paweł Frelik, (Mis)reading America: American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions


Book review

Other Issues

January 2015, 9
, Volume 7
Polish Journal for American Studies 4 2010, 4
Polish Journal for American Studies 3 2009, 3
January 2008, 2
January 2004, 1
Polish Journal for American Studies, Volume 8 2014, Volume 8
Polish Journal for American Studies 5 2011, 5