The series "Katowice Interdisciplinary and Comparative Studies" publishes works of scholars who, on the one hand, wish to see literary works in the unceasing dialogue with other arts and, on the other, want to rethink literary theory. It contains essays on a wide range of topics which include studies of individual texts placing them in a rich web of comparative references as well as in-depth investigations of particular notions in their historical and multicultural contexts.

Agnieszka Graff is a graduate of Amherst College in Amherst, MA (BA, 1993), Oxford University (M.St., 1995), and the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science (doctoral program, 1995-1999). She holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Warsaw (1999). Since 2000 she is assistant professor at the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, where she teaches US culture, literature and film, African American studies, gender studies and women’s history. She also offers seminars at Warsaw University Gender Studies Center. She has published three books of feminist essays.

Leseprobe

Contents: Concept of time and concept of space – History and philosophical sources of the binarism – Focus on Bergson and Lessing – Modern narrative theory – Relevance to Joyce’s novels and Joyce criticism – – – .