Exploring Space: Space in Cultural and Literary Studies v. 1: Spatial Notions in Cultural, Literary and Language Studies

Exploring space: Spatial notions in cultural, literary and language studies falls into two volumes and is the result of the 18th PASE (Polish Association for the Study of English) Conference organized by the English Department of Opole University and held at Kamień Śląski in April 2009. The first volume embraces cultural and literary studies and offers papers on narrative fiction, poetry, theatre and drama, and post-colonial studies. The texts and contexts explored are either British, American or Commonwealth. The second volume refers to English language studies and covers papers on lexicography, general linguistics and rhetoric, discourse studies and translation, second language acquisition/foreign language learning, and the methodology of foreign language teaching. The book aims to offer a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research; thus, it may be of interest to those in search of novel applications of space-related concepts, and to those who wish to acquire an update on current developments in English Studies across Poland (from the Preface).

Andrzej Ciuk is Professor Extraordinarius and Head of the Department of English, Opole University, Poland. He specializes in English literature, cultural studies and, most recently, Australian studies. He is the author of three books: Mastering English through Educational Problems (with Stanislaw Jedrzejowski), 1979; King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in Victorian Poetry, 1989; and Georgian Poetry: A Reconsideration, 1992. Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Opole University, Poland. She specializes in pragma-linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and cultural/media studies.