dr Patrycja Antoszek

(Im)Perfect Paradise. Eatonville in 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' by Zora Neale Hurston.
New York's upper classes during the Jazz Age in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Beautiful and Damned".
The patriarchal house as a symbol of entrapment in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and "Woman Hollering Creek"
Hybrid form and Native American identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.
Gothic house revisited in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
(In)Visibility and African-American identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Forms of freedom and confinement in William Gibson's Neuromancer
The experience of the Holocaust in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" and "Rosa".
'Quiet as it's kept' - internalized racism in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'
Spatial dimensions of the inner and outer journey in Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” and “Outer Dark”
America, Americans and Paisanos: The (Re)Vision of American national myths in John Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat"
The House as the Site of the Uncanny in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables"
Existential scepticism in Thomas Ligotti's "The Shadow, The Darkness".

Symbolism in Margaret Atwood's writing.
Levels of Entrapment in Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", "Something Happened" and "Closing Time".
Unreliability in Nabokov's Writings: the Case of "Lolita" and "Despair".
The Motif of the Vampire in "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, and "The Vampire Diaries" by Lisa Jane Smith.
Man in the House: the Image of Man in Selected Novels by American Female Writers.