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.
Author(s): Piero Boitani, Robert Clark
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 352
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY CANON......Page 20
THE POLITICS OF ENGLIT AND SUBCULTURES......Page 33
DIABOLISM AND ANGELISM: DIALOGUE, MEANING AND NONSENSE......Page 48
'THE WRITTEN AND THE UNSPOKEN'......Page 62
SPACE, TIME AND THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 83
BRUGES GROUP OR COMMON MARKET? REALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND POSTWAR BRITISH FICTION......Page 95
THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF CULTURAL STUDIES IN ENGLAND......Page 108
DIALOGICAL READING AND THE BIBLICAL-CREED NARRATIVE PRAYERS IN CHAUCER'S 'MAN OF LAW'S TALE'......Page 118
NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY: THE EXAMPLE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE......Page 131
TRANSLATING SHAKESPEARE FOR THE THEATRE......Page 149
'SO FULL OF SHAPES IS FANCY': GENDER AND POINT OF VIEW IN TWELFTH NIGHT......Page 158
PERICULOSA ET PESTILENS QUAESTIO: INTERROGATIVE DISCOURSE IN DONNE'S HOLY SONNETS......Page 178
THE IMAGE OF THE OTHER IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH EUROPEAN TRAVEL LITERATURE......Page 196
COLERIDGE AND EARLY ITALIAN ART......Page 207
FORD MADOX FORD AND EUROPEAN CULTURE......Page 219
VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE APPROPRIATION OF THE MASCULINE......Page 228
WHO DARES TO SPEAK? IRELAND AND THE GREAT WAR......Page 237
AUDEN'S ICARUS AND HIS FALL: VISION, SUPER-VISION AND REVISION......Page 249
THE POET AND THE DEATH DRIVE: A READING OF DYLAN THOMAS'S 'THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER'......Page 259
'THE DARK WOOD OF THE LARYNX': HEANEY AND DANTE......Page 274
TED HUGHES: CONTINUITY AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ACT OF WRITING......Page 282
LAIKIN, WITH GLOSSOLALIA: TONY HARRISON......Page 292
THE FEMALE BODY POLITIC: FROM VICTIMIZATION TO EMPOWERMENT......Page 300
FEMINIST HETEROLOGIES: CONTEMPORARY BRITISH WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS AND THE REWRITE OF MYTH AND HISTORY......Page 317
THE NATION AS METAPHOR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE......Page 331
Index......Page 343
