ABSTRACT
Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vitality and diversity of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies.
Topics addressed include:
* the nature of the canon
* the poetics of language
* the representation of women and the notion of nationalism in post-colonial literature.
The significance of this volume lies not only in the quality of the individual contributions but also in the fact that it marks an important turning point in the history of English studies in Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
INTRODUCTION
part |2 pages
Part I LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY
chapter |13 pages
THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY CANON
chapter |15 pages
THE POLITICS OF ENGLIT AND SUBCULTURES
chapter |21 pages
‘THE WRITTEN AND THE UNSPOKEN’
chapter |12 pages
SPACE, TIME AND THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS
chapter |13 pages
BRUGES GROUP OR COMMON MARKET? REALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND POSTWAR BRITISH FICTION
Realism, postmodernism and postwar British fiction
chapter |8 pages
THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF CULTURAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND
part |2 pages
Part II TEXTUAL STUDIES
chapter |18 pages
NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
The example of the English Renaissance
chapter |9 pages
TRANSLATING SHAKESPEARE FOR THE THEATRE
chapter |20 pages
‘SO FULL OF SHAPES IS FANCY’: GENDER AND POINT OF VIEW IN TWELFTH NIGHT
Gender and point of view in
chapter |18 pages
PERICULOSA ET PESTILENS QUAESTIO: INTERROGATIVE DISCOURSE IN DONNE’S HOLY SONNETS
Interrogative discourse in Donne’s
chapter |12 pages
COLERIDGE AND EARLY ITALIAN ART
chapter |9 pages
FORD MADOX FORD AND EUROPEAN CULTURE
chapter |9 pages
VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE APPROPRIATION OF THE MASCULINE
chapter |12 pages
WHO DARES TO SPEAK? IRELAND AND THE GREAT WAR
chapter |10 pages
AUDEN’S ICARUS AND HIS FALL: VISION, SUPER- VISION AND REVISION
Vision, super-vision and revision
chapter |15 pages
THE POET AND THE DEATH DRIVE
A reading of Dylan Thomas’s ‘The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower’
chapter |10 pages
TED HUGHES: CONTINUITY AND TRANS- FORMATIONS IN THE ACT OF WRITING
Continuity and transformations in the act of writing
chapter |8 pages
LAIKIN, WITH GLOSSOLALIA: TONY HARRISON
chapter |14 pages
FEMINIST HETEROLOGIES
Contemporary British women playwrights and the rewrite of myth and history