dr hab. Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis prof. KUL

The Old South versus the New South in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"
The black domestic as a substitute mother in Carson McCullers’ ‘The Member of the Wedding’ and Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Etymology of Paul's maladjustment in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament."
Will Barrett as a Quixotic Character in Walker Percy's "The Last Gentleman" and "The Second Coming"
"War of shells, shock of peace" in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway
The Victorian woman and the Flapper in F.S. Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs her Hair".
Catholicism in Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer."
The Other in "Southern Vampire Mysteries" and "True Blood"
Thematic concerns in Ellen Glasgow's ghost short stories.
Constructing womanhood in Katherine Anne Porter's "The jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Antislavery discourse in Solomon Northup’s Twelve years a slave
Ignatius Reilly as a Grotesque of Don Quixote in John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces"

Satire on Southern Culture in Frances Newman's "The Hard-Boiled Virgin"
Searching for Oneself in Gail Godwin's "The Odd Woman"
Honey as a mediator in Fannie Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe" and Sue Monk Kidd''s "The Secret Life of Bees"
This is no land for a fairy tale: Playing with the genre in Cormac McCarthy’s “Outer Dark” and Jayne Anne Phillips’ “Bess”
Poor White Girlhood in Southern Literature
Twentieth Century Southern Matriarchy in Jill McCorkle's "Tending to Virginia"
A quest for manliness in Ernest J. Gaines’ "A Lesson Before Dying"
The Use of Satire and Black Humor in Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22”