Issue IX/2 – Autumn 2000

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Cover: photographs for PoemCards © Julia Varga

Contents

ESSE Matters

President’s Column: ‘Promoting European Study…’
Helmut Bonheim
2
Secretary’s Report
Graham D. Caie
4

In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Ioan Aurel Preda
Mihaela Irimia
5
ESSE Bursaries
6
A Letter from the new President
Adolphe Haberer
7

The Boundaries of English

Population Contacts and the Evolution of English
Salikoko S. Mufwene
9
Not ‘Other Literatures’: Writing Literary History Revisited
Michael Alexander
16
Globalisation and the National Paradigm
Heinz Ickstadt
19

Teaching Creative Writing & Literature

Workshopping Poetry in Hungary
John Drew
22
Step by Step: Sound to Sounds
Katona Eva Zsuzsanna
25
Poems from A Handful of Plums
Merényi Csaba, Bakos Eszter & Balikó Nándor
28
Poems from Poem Card Series
Imola Damla Holl÷ & George Szirtes
30
Teaching English Literature to Trainee EFL Teachers
Violeta Delgado Crespo
32

Articles

Women and World War I: New Perspectives
Angela K. Smith
35
Maternal Histories
Amanda Gilroy
41

Checklist

Politicised Fiction in Britain 1790-1810
Matthew O. Grenby
47
Computer corner Adam Piette
55

Using IT

Literacy, the Book and the Internet:
Retrospects and Prospects
Robert Clark
57
Using a Discussion Group in Teaching Literature
Julie Coleman
62
Teaching Literature with Hypertext
Andrew Monnickendam
64

Reviews

Revising Grammar & Updating Words
Mario Brdar
70
A New Selection of Public Verse
Stephen Wilson
75

Centres & Projects

77

Reports

ASNEL 2000
Mark Stein
79
Theorising Ireland
Shaun Richards
81
Towards a European History of English Studies
Renate Haas & Balz Engler
83

Listings

Conference Announcements
86
Journals
92
ESSE Board Members
96