New Perspectives in English and American Studies. Volume One: Literature contains a selection of papers delivered at 14th International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized every three years by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The editors divided the content into five broad sections reflecting the scope of academic reflection, the breadth of cultural material and the depth of its analysis.The articles in the volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies and their diversity mirrors the broad spectrum of the thematic panels of the conference.These included, among others, Medievalism in Literature, James Joyce Studies, The Contemporary Historical Novel and Multimodality. Aside from these thematic sessions, a number of general sessions dedicated to a wide spectrum of topics pertinent to English and American studies was held - in particular, the issues of the individual's perspective upon collective history, regional myths as well as the pivotal new historical awareness.

Michal Choinski, Malgorzata Cierpisz - Introduction: The Past Informs the Future, the Future Informs the PastPART 1: HISTORICAL NOVELCarolyne Larrington - George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO's Game of Thrones and (Neo)MedievalismIb Johansen - Narrative Cross-currents and Textual CrossfiresPetr Chalupský - The (In)authenticity of Invented History in Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody ProjectKinga Latala - Modern Representations of War-time Executions in William Brodrick's A Whispered Name and John Boyne's The AbsolutistMarek Pawlicki - "The Fable Splits at the Seams": An Exploration of Imagination and Myth in William Golding's The Scorpion GodBarbara Klonowska - From Trauma to Love, from Experiment to Tradition: Contemporary British Historical Romances and HistoriographyRachael Sumner - Historical Vanishing Points in Hilary Mantel's Novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the BodiesBeata Kiersnowska - New Sporting Woman - A New Ideal of Womanhood in Late Victorian England?PART 2: AMERICAN SOUTHRobert H. Brinkmeyer - W.J. Cash and Hitler: The Mind of the South and the European CrisisAnna Lozinska - The True and the Degenerate - Images of Native Americans and the Natural Environment in William Faulkner's Short StoriesTodd Hagstette - Honor, Religion, and Domesticity: New Perspectives on Southern Dueling in Augusta Jane Evans's St. ElmoKatarzyna Jasiewicz - The Old South and a New Meaning: Kate Chopin's Stories vs. Patricia Yaeger's Dirt and DesireSzymon Wnuk - Through the Ruins of an Orchard: Fertility Myth in Cormac McCarthy's The RoadPART 3: GENERAL AMERICAN STUDIESGrzegorz Kotecki - "Deafened by the Roar of Its Own History": Communal Remembering and Collective Forgetting in Toni Morrison's ParadiseTadeusz Lewandowski - Zitkála-sá's Old Indian Legends: A New PerspectiveRichard Thomas Savino - The 'Other' in Deliver Us from EvilJoanna Durczak - Contrary Farmers and the Literature of Agri/cultural ResistanceJoanna Antoniak - Different Images of Father in Jonathan Safran Foer's FictionAnna Bialkowska - "Lee and the Boys" - A Queer Look at William S. BurroughsZygmunt Mazur - Inhabiting the Moment in Time: W.S. Merwin's The Shadow of SiriusAnna Svetlíková - Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean TerrorPART 4: BRITISH PROSEAnna Bugajska - The Anxiety of the Lion Influence: The Place of the Lion and NarniaSabina Sosin - Challenging the Codex = Challenging the Reader? Motivations behind B.S. Johnson's Aesthetical Choices in The UnfortunatesOlga Glebova - Doris Lessing and J.M. Coetzee in the Context of Contemporary Celebrity CulturePART 5: DRAMATomasz Wiecek - The Conflict between Ecclesiastical Courts and the Royal Justice in the Late Medieval Passion PlaysRowland Cotterill - "New Heaven, New Earth": Some Promised Ends and Brave New Worlds of Shakespearian TheatreJurgita Astrauskiene - Repartee and Quip as Modes of Literary Wit in John Webster's drama The Duchess of MalfiPhilipp Reisner - Performing Theology: David Adjmi's Satirical TragediesPART 6: MULTIMODALITYMariano D'Ambrosio - Dynamic Patterns in Contemporary Multimodal Printed Novels: The Exploration, the Quest, the Journey, the EncounterIoana Zirra - Digital Tracing of the "Parallactic Drift of the Socalled Fixed Stars" in James Joyce's Ulysses