Dr Monika Kocot is interested in contemporary Scottish poetry and prose, Native American writing, comparative studies and literary translation. She is the author of Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016) and co-editor of Języki (pop)kultury w literaturze, mediach i filmie (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015) and Nie tylko Ishiguro. Szkice o literaturze anglojęzycznej w Polsce (Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019). She is a member of the Association for Cultural Studies, The Association for Scottish Literary Studies, the French Society of Scottish Studies (SFEE), and Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawstwa Kognitywnego (Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association). She is the Vice President of The K.K. Baczynski Literary Society.
Orcid ID: 0000-0001-8111-4998
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8111-4998
Monographs:
Playing Games of Sense in Edwin Morgan’s Writing, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016.
Edited monographs:
Nie tylko Ishiguro. Szkice o literaturze anglojęzycznej w Polsce, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019 (with Joanna Dyła-Urbańska)
Języki (pop)kultury w literaturze, mediach i filmie, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015 (with Kamil Szafraniec).
Journal articles and chapters in monographs:
“Geopoetics and the Poetry of Consciousness: A Transmodern Perspective,” Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English, eds. Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen i José María Yebra-Pertusa, London: Routledge, 2019, 178-203.
“The Whittrick Play of No Nothing: Alan Spence, Edwin Morgan, and Indra’s Net,” Text Matters: a Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, No. 8 (2018), 189-211.
“‘Our Island in the Flood on the Turtle’s Back’: Images of the Flood in Daniel David Moses’s Aazhoodena: The Place of the Heart,” Perspectives on Canada – International Canadian Studies despite Harper and Trudeau, eds. Barbara Butrymowska and Uwe Zagratzki, Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2018, 225-247.
“The Beauty of the Seemingly Commonplace”— Japanese Influences in Alan Spence’s Poetry,” Polish Scholars on Scottish Writers. An Interpretative Collage, eds. A. Korzeniowska and I. Szymańska, Warszawa: Semper, 2018, 98-116.
”Dialogic Imagination: Edwin Morgan and Russian Modernism. Beyond Sense Through Laughter,” w: Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression, eds. A. Korzeniowska and I. Szymańska, Warszawa: Semper, 2016, 21-37.
“Trickster Discourse: the Figure of Whittrick in Edwin Morgan’s Writing,” Visions and Revisions. Studies in Literature and Culture, ed. G. Czemiel et al., Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015, 49-58.
„Rewizje historyczne we współczesnej powieści indiańskiej,” Historia w wersji popularnej, eds. I. Kowalczyk and I. Kiec, Gdańsk: Katedra. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2015, 164-184.
“Games with Kitsch in the Works of Sherman Alexie and Thomas King”, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, ed. J. Stępień, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014, 99-112.
“Post-Indian Warriors of Simulation: Sherman Alexie’s Flight as a «Story of Survivance»”. The Post-Marked World: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, eds. K. Kujawińska Courtney, I. Penier and S. Chakrabarti, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013, 139-152.
“Płynna tożsamość — oblicza trickstera w powieściach Indian Ameryki Północnej”, Dyskursy o kulturze, eds. R. Mielczarek and M. Skorzycki, Łódź, SAN 2012, 83-102.
Werbiwokowizualny performance? O otwieraniu Cage’a według Edwina Morgana, „Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich” 2012, 55/110 z. 2, 307-326.
“From Anaphoresis to Metaphoresis. Scene-graphs in Edwin Morgan’s ‘Message Clear”, Texts and Minds. Papers in Cognitive Poetics and Rhetoric, ed. A. Kwiatkowska, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, 125-138.
“’Awaiting Still Our Metamorphosis’—the Nocturnal Régime of the Imaginary in Derek Mahon’s Poetry,” Changing Ireland: Transitions and Transformations in Irish Literature and Culture, eds. Katarzyna Poloczek and Marta Goszczyńska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2010, 55-67.
“Indian Beatle(s): From ‘Norwegian Wood’ to ‘The Hare Krishna Mantra.’ Indian Influences on the Lyrics and Music of The Beatles”, Fifty Years with the Beatles. The Impact of the Beatles on Contemporary Culture, eds. J. Jarniewicz and A. Kwiatkowska, Łódź University Press, Łódź 2010, 183-197.
„’Wdech i wydech tworzą Sutrę Serca’—motywy buddyjskie w wierszach pięciu poetów polskich”, Nowa poezja polska. Twórcy-tematy-motywy, eds. T. Cieślak and K. Pietrych, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2009, 523-542.
monika.kocot@uni.lodz.pl
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