'Of What is Past, or Passing, or to Come'

This book is inspired by the works of Marina Warner and Cathy Caruth. The articles included in this volume are devoted to the explorations of individual space and landscape of the mind, travels into fairy tales, oriental scenery as well as interrelationships between memory and fiction in non-fictional and fictional discourses.

This 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.

Autorentext

Liliana Sikorska, professor of English, head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä (Poland); head of the Department of English Literature and Culture of English Speaking Countries at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw (Poland); 2010 Fulbright Professor at the Cornell University in New York (USA); author and co-author of numerous books on medieval English and Irish literature as well as postcolonial literatures in English.

Inhalt

Contents: 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 Burzynska: 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.