Vol. 10, 2008

Contents


Editors’ Introduction

Ten Years After: Celebrating ABC 10
THE EDITORS READ

Horizons of Change

Narrating Britain into the Twenty-First Century: Backwards? Forwards? Sideways?
RANDALL STEVENSON ABSTRACT

Introspections / Retrospections
 

The ‘Backstage’ of Classic Modernity: Time and Leisure in the City in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Culture Texts 
ALEXANDRU DRAGOŞ IVANA ABSTRACT

Boundaries of Mourning: Gender, Poetry, and Place in Wordsworth’s “Maternal Grief”
CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG ABSTRACT

“What is Africa to Me?”: Modernism’s Double Life in Hemingway and Larsen

JIM HICKS ABSTRACT

A Stylistic Analysis of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying 
ANCA MUREŞANU ABSTRACT

Robert Duncan: The Stylistics of the Self 
CLEMENTINA MIHĂILESCU ABSTRACT

Suicide as Affirmation and Gender as a Conscious Choice: The Deconstruction of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Major Novels 
ANA-BLANCA CIOCOI-POP ABSTRACT

Kissing Women: the Fiction of Sarah Waters 
JOANNE BISTHON ABSTRACT

Looking Through the Iron Curtain: Stoppard and Stănescu’s Political Absurdism
REBECCA NESVET ABSTRACT

Cultural Alterities    

“The Great Race”? The African Other and Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Horror Fiction 
DAVID SIMMONS ABSTRACT

De « l’homme à fragments » à « l’homme rapaillé ». Les enjeux identitaires dans l’œuvre de Cioran et de Gaston Miron 
DUMITRA BARON ABSTRACT

Fiction et fictionnalisation chez Hubert Aquin 
DORIN COMŞA ABSTRACT

In-Theory

The Challenge of Critical Reflexivity through a Postmodern Paradox
FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO ABSTRACT

Cultural Strategy in the Golden Age of Terror: The Relationship of the 1964 New York World’s Fair to the New Frontier and the Cold War
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD ABSTRACT

The Postmodern Zone     

Games Doctors Play: Remedy as Cybernetic Strategy in Postmodern Fiction 
T. RAVICHANDRAN ABSTRACT

Fiction and Commercialization in David Foster Wallace’s Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
JAROSLAV KUŠNÍR ABSTRACT

“Pathological Rationality” in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and Saturday
CAROLINE BENNETT ABSTRACT

Cinescapes

Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion’s In the Cut 
ASBJØRN GRØNSTAD ABSTRACT

Across Linguistics

Building Translation Skills in an Academic Framework
MARIA-TEODORA CREANGĂ ABSTRACT

Sightlines

Don’t Mention the E-word!
STUART SILLARS

Academic Freedom and the Theaching of Literature
PETER BARRY

New Writing

Beyond
VIVIENNE VERMES

The Waiter
ADRIAN MATHEWS

Prince Orhan and the Songbird
ROBERT CARVER

Reviews

Christine Berberich, The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia
ADRIANA NEAGU READ

Salman Rushdie,
 The Satanic Verses/ Versetele Satanice. Trans. Dana Crăciun
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER READ

Wood, B. Dan,
 The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric
ADRIANA NEAGU READ

Stephen C. Pepper, Classic Texts for ABC Disciplines, World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence
ERIC GILDER READ

Dialogus

English Studies in Non-Anglophone Contexts: Higher Education in Bulgaria and Romania
SUMAN GUPTA

From Pictograph to Ideogram with Ezra Pound: The History of the Pictorial Significance of the Chinese Character
SILVIA FLOREA

Book Announcements

Herman Browne, Grasshoppers No Longer: Critical Essays on Western Cultural History, Theology and Philosophy

Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor, eds., Transatlantic Literary Studies

Notes on Contributors
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