English Past and Present: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Malta Conference in 2010

English Past and Present: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Malta Conference in 2010

by Wolfgang Viereck (Editor)
English Past and Present: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Malta Conference in 2010

English Past and Present: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Malta Conference in 2010

by Wolfgang Viereck (Editor)

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Overview

This collection unites 21 papers mainly presented at the 21st IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English) Conference held at the Valetta Campus of the University of Malta in mid-July 2010. Most periods of world-wide literature in English from Anglo-Saxon to the present day were represented as well as many aspects of language and linguistics. One section Writers and the Mediterranean was of particular local interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631638958
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 09/17/2012
Series: Bamberger Beitraege zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft / Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics , #55
Pages: 275
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wolfgang Viereck, MAE, Chair of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Bamberg from 1978 to 2006; now retired. President of several international associations, also of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) and member of a number of academies of sciences, including the Academia Europaea (London).

Table of Contents

Contents: Ian Kirby: Preface – J. R. Hall: Supplementary Evidence and the Manuscript Text of Beowulf: A Survey of Sources – Manfred Malzahn: The Barnaby Googe Experiment: Readings and Misreadings – Richard A. McCabe: Plato, Poetic ‘Praxis’, and Renaissance Censorship – Mary Morrissey: Paul’s Cross: Context, Occasion, Significance – James R. Siemon: Mark(et)ing Differences on the Early Modern Stage: Malta’s Slave Market and London’s Exchange – Ann Thompson/John O. Thompson: Standing for and Standing in for: Metonymy in Henry V – Vera Nünning: Voicing Criticism in Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women: Narrative Attempts at Claiming Authority – Christoph Bode: Constructions of Identity in Romanticism: The Case of William Wordsworth – Danuta Fjellestad: The Pictorial Turn in the Contemporary Novel – Sergio Perosa: Byron and Latin-Levantine Europe – Klaus Stierstorfer: Who Owns Britain? S. T. Coleridge and the National Trust – William Baker: Fresh Light on Christina Rossetti and George Herbert – Paul A. Bové: Historical Humanist, American Style – Val Cunningham: The Aw(e)ful Spread of Literary Theory – Jürgen Schlaeger: The Play and Place of Literary Theory – Mary Jane Edwards: Analyzing the Annotations: Theories and Practices of Explanatory Notes – John Leonard: Adam’s Two Dreams: Keats on Milton – Jane Goldman: «The hush of the Mediterranean lipping the sand»: the libertarian and libidinal politics of Virginia Woolf’s Mediterranean discourse – Christopher Innes: Staging the Mediterranean: Developing Views in English Drama – Harold Kaylor: Chaucer, His Boethius, and the Narrator of His Troilus – William V. Davis: «Begin, and cease, and then again begin»: Rereading Matthew Arnold’s «Dover Beach».
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