Contents
Editorial
MERRITT MOSELEY 5
Dis/Graceful Liberties: Textual Libertinism/ Libertine Texts in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
HAGER BEN DRISS 23
Alternative Ways of Challenging and Resisting in
Richard Rodriguez’s Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
AITOR IBARROLA-ARMENDARIZ 46
“Nobody gets out alive. This place just a big coffin”:
On Death and Dying in American Prisons
RALUCA ANDREESCU 65
The Latest Battle: Depictions of the Calormen in
The Chronicles of Narnia
ANDREW HOWE 84
Death, Innocence, and the Cyborg: Theorizing the Gynoid
Double-Bind in Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence
KWASU D. TEMBO 103
“Ava’s body is a good one”: (Dis)Embodiment in Ex Machina
JENNIFER HENKE 126
Food for Thought: Of Tables, Art and Women in
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
ESTELLA ANTOANETA CIOBANU 147
There’s a Double Tongue in Cheek: On the Un(Translatability) of Shakespeare’s Bawdy Puns into Romanian
ANCA-SIMINA MARTIN 169
Dialogus 190
Irvine Welsh in Sibiu
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 191
Book Reviews 197
Michael Wood. On Empson
ADRIANA NEAGU 198
Michaela Mudure, ed. Mary Wollstonecraft: Reflections and Interpretations
ADRIANA NEAGU 201
Renate Haas, ed. Rewriting Academia: The Development
of the Anglicist Women’s and Gender Studies
of Continental Europe
ANCA-LUMINIȚA IANCU 203
Alexander Search with Suman Gupta, Fabio Akcelrud Durão and
Terrence McDonough. Entrepreneurial Literary Theory:
A Debate on Research and the Future of Academia
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 209
Thanks to Our Peer Reviewers 217
Call for Papers 219