The work presents articles discussing various subjects relating to
literary, cultural borders and borderlands as well as their crossings
with the Orient and the Occident. A broad, multifaceted scope of the
volume draws the attention of readers to the problem of liminal spaces
between cultures, genres, codes and languages of literary and artistic
communication. The perspective of borderness proposed by orientalists,
literary specialists, culture experts provide insights into
multi-dimensional and heterogenic subjects and methods of consideration.
The authors referring to, inter alia, comparative studies, theory of
reception, intertextuality, transculturality of the East and West works
touch upon themes such as coexistence, exclusion, crossing or the
instability of borders. Also by taking into account identity issues, the
interpenetration of various influences between different literatures,
poetics and languages, the readers gain a broader context of
intercultural dialogue between the Orient and Occident, what allow them
to transgress barriers of a purely artistic, literary reception of the
book contents. The volume - due to the abundance of proposed topics, its
heterogeneous representations and manifold approaches used in analysis,
discussion and (re)interpretations - is a debate's record or a result of
an academic reflection rather than a comprehensive monograph.
