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Introduction
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mateborderoftheworld,beyondwhichtherewasnothing.Thismedieval
notioncontinuestoberelevantthroughtheRenaissance,inthepoetryof
JohnDonneandJohnMilton.
KatarzynaChruszczewska,“‘ToBeSavedbyChaos’:‘Emancipation’ofSelf
byMutilationandPerversion.ChuckPalahniuk’sInvisibleMonstersand
Choke.”
InPalahniuk’sfiction,thestruggleforatrueidentityexplodesinatotalrebel-
lionagainsttheculturalregime,manifestedthroughdiferentformsofsexual
perversionorthroughtheintentionalmutilationofone’sbody.Thenecessity
tohybridizeone’sidentityentailsthedestructionofthemainstructuresof
theself.Palahniuk’scharactersaimforindefinabilityoftheselfbydisputing
sexualityandquestioningthebody.
JoannaJodłowska,“Who’sAfraidoftheSupermarket:AStudyofAndrzej
Wójcik’sandEwanJones-Morris’sSemi-documentaryBrandNewWorld.”
“Who’sAfraidoftheSupermarketł”ofersacomparisonofthekindsof
dystopianfearembodiedbytheexperimentalsemi-documentaryBrandNew
World(2005)directedbyAndrzejWójcikandEwanJones-Morrisincompari-
sonwithAldousHuxley’s1932novelBraveNewWorld,andexpressedinthe
waythesetwoworkshandlethethemestheyhaveincommon:consumerism,
marketing,thefunctioningofthemass-media,andrebellionagainstmodern
society.
PaulinaKamińska,“Civilisation,FearandTraumainDorisLessing’sWrit-
ing.”
ByanalysingtherepresentationsofcivilisationinDorisLessing’swriting,
onecandiscernimaginarysocietiesatdiferentstagesoftheirdevelopment:
fromtheirbeginnings,throughthebreakdown,toattemptsattherebuilding
ofsocialstructures.Fearandthreatofdeathareimminentwithinallthese
transformations.Suchfeaturesoftraumanarrativesasthebreakdownofchro-
nology,multiplenarrators,theimpossibilityofafaithfulaccountsurfacein
DorisLessing’snovels,andenhanceherdepictionsofcivilisation.
RobertKielawski,“MasochismandIts(Dis)contents:ThePoliticsofIn-Yer-
FaceTheatreandMarkRavenhill’sBodiesinCrisis.”
ThearticletriestoaccountforthepoliticsofmasochisminFaustisDeadand
TheCutbyMarkRavenhillbymakinglinksbetweenin-yer-faceaestheticsand
anti-humanisttraditionofAntoninArtaudandSigmundFreud.Theopposi-
tionalenergyoftheanalysedplaysisidentifiedwiththewaythecharacters’
politicalagencyisrestrictedtomasochisticacts.Inphenomenologicalterms,
thebodyinpainbecomesasiteofpoliticalintervention.
