Characters in Literary Fictions

Contents: Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga/Jadwiga W?grodzka: From Character to Identity...and back? - Andrzej Zgorzelski: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's «Sister Helen»: A functional approach to the literary character - Karolina Trapp: Joseph Conrad's «The Partner»: Character and language - S?awomir Studniarz: Peter Straub's Shadowland: Character in the liminal space - Joanna Pasternak: Anita Desai's fiction: Marginalisation as a technique of character creation - Magdalena Ku?niar: A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book: The functions of flanks and ficelles - Andrzej S?awomir Kowalczyk: Charles Williams's Shadows of Ecstasy: Cognitive aspects of character interpretation - Artur Blaim: «A Jew, and circumcised»: Constructing collective and individual characters in early modern utopian fictions - Grzegorz Tr?bicki: Recent Secondary World Fantasy: Farewell to the hero? - ?aneta Nalewajk: The realistic novel and the creation of literary characters: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - Halszka Lele?: Character sketch and its fantastic transformations: H. G. Wells's «The Crystal Egg» - Marta Komsta: Reconstructing the Gothic villain: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House - El?bieta Perkowska-Gawlik: Character in the academic mystery novel: Joanne Dobson's The Raven and the Nightingale - Ludmi?a Gruszewska-Blaim: Possible men and women of science: Constru(ct)ing characters in academic fictions - Kamil Kara?: Terry Pratchett's Lord Vetinari as a transtextual character - Katarzyna Pisarska: Breaking out and speaking: Old myths and narrative tensions in Ursula LeGuin's Lavinia - Patrycja Podgajna: Transtextual characters in literary adaptations: E.M. Forster's Howards End and Zadie Smith's On Beauty - Barbara Klonowska: Irony as the principle of constructing a character: Beryl Bainbridge's Young Adolf - Jadwiga W?grodzka: Characters in mythical and historical contexts: William Golding's «The Scorpion God» - Dominika Szwajewska: Counterfactual model of the self: J.M. Coetzee's Summertime.