The purpose of this volume is to address the notion of cultural recycling by assessing its applicability to various modes of cultural and theoretical discourse. The word «recycling» is here used collectively to denote phenomena such as cyclicity, repetition, recurrence, renewal, reuse, reproduction, etc., which seem to be inalienable from basic cultural processes. Part of our purpose in proposing this theme is a desire to trace, confront, interrogate, and theorise the surviving phantoms of newness and paradigms of creativity or dreams of originality, and to consider the need, a necessity perhaps, to overcome or sustain them, and, further, to estimate the possibility of cultural survival if it turns out, as it may, that culture is forever to remain an endless recurrence of the same.

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Wojciech Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia and editor-in-chief of the journal Er(r)go. Marzena Kubisz is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Her publications focus on cultural theory and the sociology of the body. Jacek Mydla is Associate Professor. His publications include articles on the history of Gothic fiction and drama and books on dramatic time in Shakespeare and appropriations of Shakespeare by early English Gothic writers.

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Contents: Leszek Drong: The Eternal Return of Veridical Rhetoric: Why Even Antifoundationalists Cannot Help Recycling Foundationalist Tropes - Katarzyna Nowak: The Myth of Eternal Return: Melancholic Formation of Identity and Production of Cultural Icons - Grzegorz Moroz: From a Theodrome to the Dance of Shiva-Nataraya - Recycling Aldous Huxley's Views on Circularity in Nature and Culture - Sean Hartigan: Recycling (and Counter-Recycling) in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Aleksander Gomola: Does the Bible Say What It Says? 'The Circular Dance' of Feminist Biblical Interpretation - Ewa Rychter: Precious Absence. Resurfacing of Christianity in Gianni Vattimo and Slavoj iek - Marta Zaj c: Recyclable Adam? On Dustbins of History and 'the Dust of the Ground': Jean Baudrillard's and Thomas Merton's Notions of Tradition - Justyna Pacukiewicz: Ruskin's Recycling of the Middle Ages - Hanna Boguta-Marchel: 'Memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not': Some Reflections on the Repetitiveness and Originality of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian - Irena Ksi opolska: Recycling the Self: Cultural Amnesia in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - Jacek Mydla: Recycling the Spectre: James Boaden's Stage Adaptations of the Gothic Romance and the Spectres of Literary Appropriation - Bartosz Wójcik: Ridin' de Riddim, Sampling the S(hit/y)stem. Benjamin Zephaniah as a Cultural Recycler - Anna Chromik-Krzykawska: Between Use and Refuse: Reclaiming the Abject into Culture - Marcin Mazurek: Recycling the Visual: Hyperreal Practice and Rituals of Oblivion - Marek Kulisz: Recycling and Culture - Carl Humphries: Metaphysics, Critical Theory, and the Illusion of Cultural Self-Reproduction.