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

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

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

Please follow the MLA bibliographical convention

Please submit printouts and texts on diskettes in Microsoft Word to:

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.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified of the publication date.

     

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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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January 2008, 2

"Nobody Knows Where Aztlan Is": An Interview with Daniel Chacon


An interview with a contemporary novelist and short story writer.

The Discontents of Applied Teratology: A Crisis of Monstrosity in Charles Brockden Brown's "Somnambulism: A Fragment"


Analysis of Brown's fiction in terms of Jeffrey J. Cohen's "monstrous interpretation".

"Painting and Sculpture are Gymnastics of the Eye": Emerson's Search for a Democratic Concept of Art as Experience


Notions of art, visuality, and the eye in Emerson's art criticism and observations in journals.

The Middle Ages of Late Brahmin New England: The Role of a Historical Figure in the Modernism of T.S. Eliot and Allen Tate


Notion of the "perfect historical society" in Eliot's and Tate's writings, and its sources in late 19th century American art criticism.

How Shreve Gets in to Quentin's Pants


Discussion of the largely overlooked fact that Shreve is wearing Quentin's pants in an episode of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.

A Rose for Euridice: The Nocturne and Melancholia in William Faulkner's "Pantaloon in Black" and "A Rose for Emily"


Sublime aesthetics and the myth of Orpheus and Euridice in Faulkner's fiction.

America, the South, and the Literature of Reconstruction: Uniqueness of "Another Land"


Survery of literature from the Reconstruction period, discussions of fiction by Southerners and Northerners.

Race and Gender Intersected: The Hill/Thomas Controversy


Cultural background of the Hill/Thomas horrassment case.

Sherman Alexie's "Armani Indians" and the New Range of Native American Fiction


Discussion of the "ideologically troublesome" representation of rich, urban Native Americans.

Earth into Art


Michael Heizer's and Robert Smithson's earth art.

Are You a "Real Man"? - The Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity in American Cultre


Cultural and social background for representation of American masculinity in 20th century.

Teaching American Literature in Poland


Observations on the canon, student response, and teaching methods in contemporary Poland.

Other Issues

January 2015, 9
, Volume 7
Polish Journal for American Studies 4 2010, 4
Polish Journal for American Studies 3 2009, 3
January 2004, 1
Polish Journal for American Studies, Volume 8 2014, Volume 8
Polish Journal for American Studies 5 2011, 5
2012, 6