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Book SynopsisThis volume, entitled
Of what is past, or passing, or to come: Travelling in Time and Space in Literature in English was inspired by the work of the writer, culture historian and mythographer Marina Warner and the professor of comparative literature Cathy Caruth. The lines quoted above are from W.B. Yeats’
Sailing to Byzantium, which are recalled by one of the characters in Marina Warner’s novel
In a Dark Wood (1977). The articles included in this volume are devoted to the explorations of individual space and landscape of the mind through analyzing trauma and addressing psychological wounds, and to travels into fairy tales, oriental scenery real and imaginary as well as interrelationships between memory and fiction in non-fictional and fictional discourses.
Table of ContentsContents: Liliana Sikorska: The heirlooms and burdens of Marina Warner – Marina Warner: They make a desert (and call it peace) – Liliana Sikorska: The voyage inside oneself: Cathy Caruth’s investigation of trauma – Cathy Caruth: Disappearing history: Scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights – Simon Bacon: «Enter freely and of your own will»: Invitations, travel and trauma in Bram Stoker’s
Dracula – Katarzyna Burzyńska: Self-fashioning as an identity-shaping process in Marina Warner’s
Indigo and William Shakespeare’s
The tempest – Daragh Downes: «I’ll drown my book»: Travels between the lines of Shakespeare’s
The tempest and Dicken’s
A Christmas carol – Sabina Fazli: «The token of some great grief, which had been conquered, but not banished»: Trauma, things, and domestic interiors in Collins, Dickens, and Raabe – Katarzyna Kuczma: The narrative of loss in Joan Didion’s
Blue nights – Jessica Quick: Writing the nation: Discourses of power in Richard Hakluyt’s
Principal Navigations – Tony Seaton: The Unknown Mother: Thanatourism and metempsychotic remembrance after World War I – Liliana Sikorska: Untold Stories: Reclaiming the past through (auto-biographical) narratives – Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk: Memory and forgetfulness in the recent Booker novels – Liliana Sikorska: Actors in
The water theatre: In interview with Lindsay Clarke.
