@misc{Kallas_Piotr_Piękno,
 author={Kallas, Piotr},
 howpublished={online},
 publisher={Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego},
 language={pol},
 abstract={The aim of the present essay is to study the origins and variegated meanings of the striking metaphor LONDON IS THE MODERN BABYLON, widespread since at least the early 19th century. What did the notion of "Babylon" actually mean to the Victorians? What made London its pre-eminent modern incarnation? What aspects of the British capital made people compare it to the legendary ancient metropolis?},
 abstract={Secondly, late-19th century London was also the birthplace of the detective story (and the detective novel). What image of the city do we find in the pages of the many crime stories set in London? What role does the place itself (both the real city and the fictional world of the stories) play in the narratives?},
 abstract={These and other, similar questions are discussed on the basis of five successful literary texts representing various subgenres of the detective (crime) story: one of G.K. Chesterton`s famous Father Brown tales, "The Blue Cross" (1910), the "Golden Age" novel by Mavis Doris Hay, "Murder Underground" (1935), John Fowler` postmodern novella, "The Enigma" (from the collection entitled "Ebony Tower", 1974), and two novels by living authors: Peter Ackroyd`s masterpiece of "literary crime", "Hawksmoor" (1985) and Nigel Williams` hilarious parody of the genre, "The Wimbledon Poisoner", 1990.},
 abstract={The conclusion seems to be that London, the legendary city, the city of mysteries and of magic, both the horror and the wonder of the age, does deserve the appellation of "modern Babylon" perhaps more than any other, modern, Western city.},
 type={rozdział w książce},
 title={Piękno i groza współczesnego Babilonu: obraz Londynu w wybranych XX-wiecznych angielskich opowieściach kryminalnych = The beauty and the horror of modern Babylon: the image of London in selected 20th-century English detective stories},
 keywords={powieść kryminalna, literatura angielska, 20 w.},
}