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This volume presents a selection of papers delivered at the 14th International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The articles in the first volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies.

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of research findings on the acquisition and use of articles in English as a second language, investigated from a phraseological perspective. It also presents an examination of various linguistic accounts of the English article system with respect to their application to English language teaching.

This volume considers intellectuals within the social history of World War I. It offers a reflection on intellectuals' stance toward militarism and the outbreak of war. It examines their reactions, thoughts, and predictions and the ways in which they interpreted the meaning of the war, as well as how they saw the possibilities of the postwar era.

Tsar Peter (927-969) is frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, focused on religious matters. This book constructs a comprehensive and balanced view of Peter, his reign, and the role he played in the history of medieval Bulgaria.

The main topic of this book is how to argue for formal epistemic norms of credence. Leszek Wronski advocates formal justificational pluralism, suggesting the use of various formal tools in arguments for synchronic and diachronic norms.

The essays included in this volume attempt to explain Shakespeare's continued popularity worldwide. How is it possible for works written with a quill over four hundred years ago by a man in ruffs and tights to resonate with the hearts and minds of contemporary recipients all over the world?

Andrzej Szczerski examines how artists responded to the post-1989 transition to democracy and a free market economy and proposed directions for these transformations to take, as well as their role in shaping remembrance of the communist era.

Oceania, the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, has become increasingly important in international affairs. The politics, economics, history, and culture of the states of Oceania are an essential piece in the global puzzle of the twenty-first century.

This book considers migration to Europe in terms of the role adult civic education can play in the integration of newcomers with host communities. It contrasts Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, each of which saw different forms of migration and reactions to it.

This book considers the presence of language aggression in postclassical Roman law. It seeks out particular ideologically charged terms in the relevant articles of law, focusing on those who are regarded as enemies of the state.

This book describes a new paradigm in social sciences, contemplative inquiry. Deep contemplation of a situation is an epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to research, whereby the investigator is researching not only the object but also the situation of research and herself/ himself in it.

This book presents research on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. It examines the whole of the Birlas' sacral foundations, both their importance in the context of national art as well as their function in the social or political discourse on identity in pre-independence India.

The volume presents a collection of texts describing research into the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)-a Nazi-led institution established in occupied Poland during World War II. The research was carried out by anthropologists together with historians, sociologists, and physical anthropologists.

This collective monograph offers new cross-national insight into participatory social work as well as discussion of its barriers and side effects. Prepared by an international team of researchers, it seeks to help further reflection on the implications and consequences of conducting research and practice in participatory manners.

This book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Slezak analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients as well as the relationships among the women providing sex services, their employers, and security workers.

This book is an attempt to diagnose the condition of (post-)modern comparative literature and to formulate its role in the media society in a multicultural world. Andrzej Hejmej reviews the current situation of an ¿indiscipline¿ in the widest possible perspective, taking into account both the first concepts from the nineteenth century, including proposals from the French comparative literary scholars, Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, and the institutional work of H. Von Meltzl, as well as the latest concepts from the comparative literary scholars from Western Europe and the U.S.The history of the formation of the main trends of comparative literary studies is explained through the use of metaphors: the Eiffel Tower, the World Trade Center, and the Tower of Babel. Tackling a variety of proposals from comparative literature scholars as well as proposals from researchers into intermedial and intercultural phenomena leads us to a new look at comparative literature and comparative literary studies. As a result, Hejmej understands modern comparative literature not so much as a further extension of the institutional dimension but more as an interpretative practice embedded in everyday life. This intercultural perspective opens new horizons for comparative literary studies in the twenty-first century.