Issue XII/1 – Spring 2003

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Cover : ‘When that April with his shoures soote…”; opening of the general prologue from Alexander Shurbanov’s Bulgarian translation of The Canterbury Tales.

 

Contents
ESSE Matters
The President’s Column
Adolphe Haberer 2
ESSE Bursaries for 2003
3
The Secretary’s Column: Terraee (In)cognitae
Hortensia Pârlog 4
EJES Seven Years On
The Editors 5
Translating
Translation: A Mission?
Alexander Shurbanov 7
Translating the English Classics
Fernando Galván 11
Translation and the Space of History
João Ferreira Duarte 16
Relations
The English Channel: Romantic Insularities
Dominic Rainsford 21
Women Travellers and Modern Tourism
Efterpi Mitsi 25
Comparative Literature
Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan 30
Ethics and Aesthetics
Ethics, Otherness, and Literary Form
Derek Attridge 33
Ethical Dimensions in Historiographic Metafiction
Christina Kotte 39
Revaluations: A New Aestheticism?
John J. Joughin & Simon Malpas 42
Articles
Sport Literature: The Ball in the Academic Court
Julian D’Arcy 47
Law and the Politics of Johnson’s Dictionary
John Stone 54
Rejoinders
English as a Lingua Franca
Ian MacKenzie 59
In Defence of Rules
Philip Carr 62
English Grammar
Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum 65
Centres & Projects
Literary Encounters between the UK and Hungary
Robert Eagleston et al. 69
Australian Studies Centre, Barcelona
Susan Ballyn 71
ISHLL
Julie Coleman 72
TABB
Claudia Sternberg 73
The Restoration Comedy Project
Manuel J. Gómez-Lara 73
Reports
ENBAS at ESSE 6
François Poirier & Slavka Tomascikova 75
Reviewing Postmodernism at ESSE 6
Klaus Stierstorfer 78
Review
East European Shakespeares
J. Lawrence Guntner 83
Listings
Conference Announcements
87
Journals
93
ESSE Board Members
96