Joanna Kokot ORCID iD University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland Poland
Retired professor of English literature at Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn. The field of research comprises English literature at the turn of the 19th century, especially the detective fiction and the horror fiction. Has published articles on the ghost stories Montague Rhodes James, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood and William Home Hodgson as well as on the novels by Arthur Machen and Bram Stoker. More important books: Tekst w tekście (Text within text, 1992) - a collection of essays devoted to the function of poems in narrative prose, Gry z czytelnikiem w nowelistyce Rudyarda Kiplinga (Plays with the reader in Rudyard Kipling's short stories, 1993), Kronikarz z Baker Street. Strategie narracyjne w utworach Conan Doyle'a o Sherlocku Holmesie (The Baker Street chronicler. Narrative strategies in the Sherlock Holmes tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1999), "This Rough Magic". Studies in Popular Literature (2004) and W świetle gazowych latarni. O prozie gotyckiej przełomu XIX i XX wieku (Gaslights. On the turn-of-the-19th-century horror fiction, 2013).
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