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
part |2 pages
Part I LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY
chapter 6|13 pages
BRUGES GROUP OR COMMON MARKET? REALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND POSTWAR BRITISH FICTION
Realism, postmodernism and postwar British fiction
part |2 pages
Part II TEXTUAL STUDIES
chapter 9|18 pages
NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
The example of the English Renaissance
chapter 11|20 pages
‘SO FULL OF SHAPES IS FANCY’: GENDER AND POINT OF VIEW IN TWELFTH NIGHT
Gender and point of view in
chapter 12|18 pages
PERICULOSA ET PESTILENS QUAESTIO: INTERROGATIVE DISCOURSE IN DONNE’S HOLY SONNETS
Interrogative discourse in Donne’s
chapter 18|10 pages
AUDEN’S ICARUS AND HIS FALL: VISION, SUPER- VISION AND REVISION
Vision, super-vision and revision
chapter 19|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 21|10 pages
TED HUGHES: CONTINUITY AND TRANS- FORMATIONS IN THE ACT OF WRITING
Continuity and transformations in the act of writing
chapter 24|14 pages
FEMINIST HETEROLOGIES
Contemporary British women playwrights and the rewrite of myth and history
