Cover: Jerry Bauer’s photograph of John Banville with the ghost of a letter by James Joyce.
Designd by Didier Mallat.
Contents
Editorial
(De)Grading Standards
ESSE Matters
President’s Column: In Defence of Research
———-Helmut Bonheim
Secretary’s Report: Breaking the Seal
———-Norman Blake
Interview
John Banville
———-Hedwig Schall
Articles
“True Originall Copies”
———-Graham Holderness and Carol Baker
“Memorandum” and “Milestone”
———-Helen Wilcox
Computer Corner
In-Sites
———-Adam Piette
Englishes in Europe
English as an Academic Discipline in Germany
———-Herbert Grabes
Bordervoicing
———-Tatiana Jukics
Literary Theory in Post-Communist Scholarship
———-György Szöny
English Studies in Modern Russia
———-S.G. Ter-Minasova
ESSE and American Studies
———-Hans Borchers
Reports
International Shakespeare Roundtable,ESSE/3 Glasgow 1995
———-Mariangela Tempera
Dickens in Dijon
———-Anny Sadrin
Spaces In-Between: Negotiating Boundaries
in Post-Colonial Writing
———-Werner Sedlak
From Women’s Studies to Gender Studies
– A New Agenda?
———-Elfi Bettinger & Ewa Welnic
Reviews
Elective Outsiders
———-Adam Piette
Language and . . .Literature?
———-Katie Wales
Ireland in Europe
———-Toni O’Brien Johnson
Whose Desire?
———-Margaret Bridges
New Perspectives on the Nineties
———-Rolf Schneider
Rejoinders
De Man, Derrida, and the Continuous Present of Deconstruction
———-John Coombes
Foreign Lecturers in Italy: Committee for the Defence
———-David Petrie
Italy: EFL Lecturers Teach
———-Mark Walters
ESSE/4 Debrecen
Registration Material