Marzena Sokołowska - Paryż Ph.D.

Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż holds her M.A. and her Ph.D. from Warsaw University. She is an assistant professor at the Section of British Literature in the English Department, Warsaw University. Her book The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry, 1939-1945 (2002) appeared in the series "New Comparative Poetics", published by Peter Lang, Brussels. She has participated in a large joint publishing project "History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe," supervised by professor John Neubauer of University of Amsterdam and professor Marcel Cornis-Pope of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• Thursday 15.00 - 16.30

Academic interests:

• war literature and photography
• 20th-century British poetry
• contemporary British, Irish and Commonwealth fiction
• realism

Selected publications:

Monograph:

• The Myth of War in British and Polish Poetry 1939-1945 New Comparative Poetics No. 4. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2002

Articles:

• "The Pastoral Tradition in British Poetry of the First and the Second World War." Acta Philologica 27, 2000: 107-118.
• "The Limitations and Power of Controversy: The Ways of Speaking about War in Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill and Tony Harrison." Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 4, 2000: 443-456
• ""Class Struggle and the Postmodern in the Sonnets of Tony Harrison." Approaches to Literature 2 Ed. Grażyna Bystydzieńska. Warsaw: Department of English Literature, University of Warsaw, 2002: 127-138
• "An Anglo-Saxon Perspective on the Contemporary Predicament: Deciphering the Design in Last Poems and Eschatological by Peter Reading." Anglica 12, 2002: 9-17
• "Dangerous Dialect in Tony Harrison's v. and Blake Morrison's 'The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper'." Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny 4, 2002: 365-373
• "Textualisations of Identity and History in Epistolary Poetry: Peter Reading's For the Municipality's Elderly and Final Demands, and Ann Stevenson's Correspondences: A Family History in Letters." Acta Philologica 29, 2003: 131-153
• (Współautorzy: Marcel Cornis-Pope, Mieczysław Dąbrowski, George Grabowicz, Boyko Penchev, Dagmar Roberts, Svetlana Slapsak, Guido Snel, Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, Tomas Venclova; pod kierunkiem Johna Neubauera) "Nodes of Political Time: 1945", History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Volume I. Ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004: 143-176
• . "Diagnosing Discourse: Poetry and Cancer in Peter Reading's C." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture vol. LII, no. 1, 2004: 1-17
• "Psychologising Discourse in Blake Morrison's 'The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper'." Approaches to Literature 3 Ed. Grażyna Bystydzieńska. Warsaw: Department of English Literature, University of Warsaw, 2004: 103-113
• "Document as Literature? Some Comments on the Generic Hybridity of Blake Morrison's As If." Anglica 14, 2005: 9-29