Contents Plenary Lecture Waldemar Zacharasiewícz The Literary Construction of Canada, the 'Other America', and Its Transatlantic Ties 7 Part One - Literature 1 Zdeněk Beran Teleny and the Question of'fin-de-siecle Sexuality 27 2 Reka Monika Cristian Border Stories and Post-Nationalist American Identities: Reading Aurora Levins Morales and Bharati Mukherjee 35 3 Pavel Drábek "There's Magické in the Web of it": The Occult Dimension of Shakespeare's Othello 43 4 Jiří Flajšar Issues of Form in Contemporary American Poetry 51 5 Milada Franková The Novelist, Theory and Reading 57 6 Pavlína Hácová The Poet as Cultural Dentist: Ethnicity in the Poetry of Jackie Kay 63 7 Ema Jelínková The Concept of Evil in Symposium and Not to Disturb 69 8 Lucie Johnová Dark Tones and Corrupt Relationships in Measure for Measure 73 9 Michael M. Kaylor "In Thy Cedarn Prison Thou Waitest": Johnson's Ionica and Uranian Intertextuality 79 10 Klára Kolínská "All That They Saw Was the Message Itself: Textual Calamities in Flaubert and De Mille 87 11 Christopher E. Koy The Mule as Metaphor in the Fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt 93 12 Jadvyga Krüminiene John Donne's Sermons: Paradox as a Fundamental Structural Device 101 13 Katarína Labudová From Retrospective to Reconstruction of the "Auto/biographical" Subject in Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood 109 14 Martina Nosková "Sex and the Umma": Sex and Religion Lived in Mohja Kahf s Columns 115 15 Jaroslav Peprník Perception of Canada in Czech Literature 121 16 Michal Peprník Cooper's Indians: Typology and Function 127 17 IvaPolak Postcolonial Imagination and Postcolonial Theory: Indigenous Canadian and Australian Literature Fighting for (Postcolonial) Space 135 18 Martin Procházka The "Neutral Ground" in History? Tully-Veolan in Waver ley as a Zone of Contact 143 19 Debra Shulkes Signs Not Taken for Wonders: Disavowing the Poetic Function in the Writing of Sylvia Plath 155 20 Ivona Škanderová Shakespeare's Plays in Pilsen Theatres 163 21 Kamila Vránková Variations and Transformations of the 'Lenore' Motif in European Ballads 171 22 Éva Zsizsmann Mapping Memory in B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates 111 4 Part Two - Cultural Studies 1 Zoltán Dragon Adaptation of Intermedial Dialogue, or Tennessee Williams Goes to Hollywood 187 2 Kenneth Froehling Asterisk (*) on Honesty: the Tragedy of Roger Maris 193 3 Štěpánka Korytová-Magstadt A Transatlantic Bond: Czech Women's Clubs in Chicago, 1890-1914 201 4 Pavel Laidler The Significant Role of the Supreme Court in the United States and Canada. A Comparative Study 209 5 Tomáš Pospíšil Attractive Ambiguities: Epistemological Uncertainty of the Films of David Cronenberg 217 6 Patricia Račková Dangerous Liasons of Film and Literature: Two Film Versions of Choderlos de Lactos' Epistolary Novel 223 7 Erik S. Roraback Cinematic Movement within Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) for a Newly Armed Eye 229 8 Don Sparling Tinkering with Thanksgiving: The Canadian Approach 237 9 Lívia Szélpál The Modern American City in Citizen Kane. An Unconventional History 243 10 Slávka Tomaščíková Sitcom within British Studies 249 11 Zsófia Anna Tóth The (Im)morality of the New Woman in the Early 20th Century 255 12 ZénóVernyik "decomposing in the mouth of New York": Spatial New York City in E.E. Cummings' Tulips & Chimneys 261 13 Clare Wallace Responsibility and Postmodernity: Mark Ravenhill and 1990s British Drama 269 14 Lukasz Wordliczek Representativeness and Separation of Powers: Pork Barrel Legislation and Private Bills 277 5