A Culture of Recycling / Recycling Culture?

The purpose of this volume is to address the notion of cultural recycling by assessing its applicability to various modes of cultural and theoretical discourse. The word «recycling» is here used collectively to denote phenomena such as cyclicity, repetition, recurrence, renewal, reuse, reproduction, etc., which seem to be inalienable from basic cultural processes. Part of our purpose in proposing this theme is a desire to trace, confront, interrogate, and theorise the surviving phantoms of newness and paradigms of creativity or dreams of originality, and to consider the need, a necessity perhaps, to overcome or sustain them, and, further, to estimate the possibility of cultural survival if it turns out, as it may, that culture is forever to remain an endless recurrence of the same.

Wojciech Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia and editor-in-chief of the journal Er(r)go.
Marzena Kubisz is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies. Her publications focus on cultural theory and the sociology of the body.
Jacek Mydla is Associate Professor. His publications include articles on the history of Gothic fiction and drama and books on dramatic time in Shakespeare and appropriations of Shakespeare by early English Gothic writers.