Andrzej Kopcewicz: Poe's philosophy of composition Marta Sienicka: William Carlos Williams and some younger poets Teresa Bałazy: External mediation in Flannery O'Connor's Wise blood George Sebouhian: Apocalyptic vision and the American character Stephen H. Goldman: American science fiction of the twentieth century: Metaphors for American attitudes toward the future Khalil Husni: Ishmael's leviathanic vision: A study in whiteness Marek Wilczyński: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown": An attempt at deconstruction Marshall Walker: Robert Penn Warren, Audubon, and imagination Jerzy Durczak: Out of Egypt - Ihab Hassan's confidential criticism Joanna Durczak: David Wagoner's poetry of instruction Jerzy Kutnik: John Cage: Towards a poetics of interpenetration and non-obstruction Alan H. Pope: Lexical repetition in American poetry