Short Paper: Strengths And Weaknesses of Deep, Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Deployments

The escalating significance of cybersecurity, due to IoT’s growth, demands robust security. As cyberattacks increase, machine learning-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) provide an effective countermeasure. This paper conducts experiments to optimize an NIDS pipeline using three artificial neural network (ANN) paradigms, demonstrating the importance of optimization and addressing computational time misconceptions. It assesses realistic datasets and compares performance metrics and execution times. Our main contribution is evaluat- ing data processing pipelines for ANN application in NIDS, and benchmarking processing ap- proaches’ influence on advanced neural-network methods

O doświadczeniu obcości języka w twórczości J.M. Coetzeego : słowo wstępne

The present foreword refers to the address delivered by J.M. Coetzee on the occasion of conferring upon him by the University of Silesia the doctor honoris causa degree. Particular attention is paid to his thoughts on the role of English in the world of today. The author of the foreword shows that reflection on language in general and its role in moulding one’s identity in present in the Nobel laureate’s works, including his most recent novels. Further into the foreword, the author briefly discusses text reprinted in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne: the already mentioned address by J.M. Coetzee, the conversation with the Author, and an article devoted to his works written by Robert Kusek

Memory performance in William Golding’s “Envoy Extraordinary”

William Golding’s fascination with history is evident both in his essays and his novels. In an essay titled “Digging for Pictures” he observes that one of the main driving forces in his work as an amateur archaeologist was his desire for “a connection with the past.” Knowing Golding’s preoccupation with history, it should come as no surprise that he is also deeply interested in the means by which people represent the past to themselves – both the distant past, which they did not witness, and the past that belongs to their subjective experience. The aim of this article is to analyse Golding’s “Envoy Extraordinary”, the third novella published in The Scorpion God. The article begins with the discussion of recollective memory, concentrating on the notion of “memory performance.” It then applies this concept to the analysis of chosen passages from Golding’s novella in order to show the relational aspect of memory. The discussion emphasizes the important role of emotions in the recollection process, both in spoken and written discourse: emotions make autobiographical discourse seem more authentic, and they provide narrative continuity between the subject’s past and present selves. Those observations are made in the context of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, and Golding’s autobiographical texts, most importantly, his essay “The English Channel” from his collection The Hot Gates.Marek Pawlicki is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures of the Silesian University. He has published a critical study of J.M. Coetzee’s prose Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Works of J.M. Coetzee (2013) and articles on the works of Nadine Gordimer, John Banville, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín. His current research is on memory and confessional discourse in contemporary British fiction.University of Silesia in KatowiceBal, Mieke, Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer (eds.). 1999. Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present. Hanover: University Press of New England.Baker, James R. 1973. Rev. of The Scorpion God, by William Golding. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction Autumn 1973, 62-70.Berns, Ute. 2009. “Performativity.” Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hűhn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid and Jőrg Schőnert. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 370-383.Brewer, William F. 1996. “What is recollective memory?” Remembering Our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory, Ed. David C. Rubin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-66.Carey, John. 2009. William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber.Christianson, Sven-Åke and Martin A. Safer. 1996. “Emotional Events and Emotions in Autobiographical Memories.” Remembering Our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory. Ed. David C. Rubin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 218-243.Golding, William. 1965. The Hot Gates. London: Faber and Faber.---. 1987. “Envoy Extraordinary.” The Scorpion God. London/Boston: Faber and Faber, 117-178.Golding William, and James R. Baker. 1982. “An Interview with William Golding.” Twentieth Century Literature 28, 130-170.Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2011. Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Kinkhead-Weekes, Mark, and Ian Gregor. 1967. William Golding: A Critical Study. London: Faber and Faber.Mandel, Barret J. 1980. “Full of Life Now.” Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 49-72.Nalbantian, Suzanne. 2003. Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience. London: Palgrave Macmillan.Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 2008. Confessions. Trans. Angela Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Sabbagh, Karl. 2011. Remembering Our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Starobinski, Jean. 1980. “The Style of Autobiography.” Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 73-83.Walker, Richard W., John J. Skowronski, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Rodney J. Vogl, Timothy D. Ritchie. 2009. “Why people rehearse their memories: Frequency of use and relations to the intensity of emotions associated with autobiographical memories.” Memory 17, 760-773.Warnock, Mary. 1989. Memory. London: Faber and Faber.15 (4/2016)192

Shadows of War and the Nightmare of Memory: Analysing Trauma in William Golding’s Pincher Martin

The main aim of this article is to analyse the impact of the Second World War on the eponymous protagonist of William Golding’s third novel, Pincher Martin. Concentrating on Christopher “Pincher” Martin’s disconnected and often chaotic recollections, as well as his attempts to organise them into a coherent narrative, this article argues that his experience of war can be considered in terms of trauma. The article begins with a short overview of critical perspectives on Pincher Martin, and then goes on to analyse in detail chosen passages from this novel, which are discussed in the context of trauma theory, as formulated by Robert Jay Lifton, Cathy Caruth and Susan Brison. While the main focus of the article is memory and its role in the shaping of the protagonist’s identity, the discussion also accounts for the complex symbolism of Golding’s novel