The chapters explore the crisis of representation in literature and arts that are seemingly losing their potential to shape the picture of political, philosophical religious, and cultural developments. The contributors approach the phenomenon through a detailed analysis, offering novel distinct insights into the realm of literature and the arts.

The papers collected in this volume explore the concept of crisis of representation in the area of literature and arts that are seemingly losing their potential toshape the picture of political, philosophical religious, and cultural developments. Some of diagnosed reasons for the crisis may include the loss of the referent, ever-increasing distance from the reality of the referential world, the crisis of truth in political discourse, crisis of the idea of re-presentation in philosophy, or the paradox of self-reference in semiotics.The contributors approach this intriguing phenomenon through a detailed analysis, offering novel insights intothe realm of literature and the arts.

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Katarzyna Kozak is an associate professor at the University of Siedlce, Poland. Her academic interests comprise the interdisciplinary research lying between literature and politics and the reception of the early modern era in the 20th and 21st centuries. Charlie Jorge is an associate professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, where he lectures on 18th century English literature. His research centres on Gothic and Irish Studies, and Archetypal Criticism, on which he has published extensively. Katarzyna Mroczyn ska is an associate professor at the University of Siedlce, Poland. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, terminology, lexicography and teaching languages for special purposes.

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FOREWORD Edward Colerick

Least Most is Best: A study of Samuel Beckett's "Ill Seen Ill Said" and "Worstward Ho"

Charlie Jorge Fernández

Commodifying the Child: Sacrificial Scapegoating in Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance (1790)

Katarzyna Kozak

Representing Jonathan Swift: a Hybridized Image

María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas

'Fictionalizing Life; Living in Fiction': Authorial Representations of Brexit divides in Jonathan Coe's Middle England

Liz Thomae

Figurative Language and Identity: Exploring Deconstruction in Contemporary Religious Discourse

Nithin Varghese

Myth and Metamorphosis: Aporias, Oppositions, and the Crisis of Representation in Sita's Retellings

Indre Zakevièiene

The Problem of Aesopian Language: The Interpretive Potential of the Short Stories by Jonas Mikelinskas and JuozasGlinskis