Texts, Images, Practices : Contemporary Perspectives on American, British and Polish Cultures

Texts, Images, Practices offers multidisciplinary readings of various texts of culture, including social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food. The authors draw from a variety of methodologies worked out within cultural and literary studies, among them memory studies, discourse analysis theory, theories of visual design and theories of popular culture, working at the intersection between the textual, the visual and the performative. The meanings and conclusions arising from the chapters included in this collection signal a variety of thematic and theoretical directions that are presently followed in cultural and literary studies in Poland.