Issue XVII/1 – Spring 2008 – The ESSE Messenger

Cover design, and image manipulation: Kristian Stotesbury, Mäntsälä, Finland.
Images: Front Cover “London Dark” by György Endre Szönyi (Szeged); p.6 University of Aarhus website; p.20 cover image by permission of Random House Publishers; p. 33 “Helsinki Cathedral at Night” by Jari Kääriäinen (Helsinki); p. 48 “Domenico Pezzini” by Roberta Facchinetti (Verona); p. 66 “Ice Queen” supplied by Heidi Hansson.

ESSE MATTERS

The ESSE President’s Column, p. 2

Editorial Notes, Password, Appeal, p. 5

ESSE Bursary Winners 2008, p. 5

ESSE-9 2008 Conference, Århus, 22-26 August 2008, p. 6

The European Journal of English Studies (EJES), p. 13

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WRITING, WRITERS

Hedwig Schwall, Muscular Metaphors in Anne Enright: An Interview, p. 16

John Eppel, Zimbabwe, p. 23

Massimiliano Morini, An Interview with Les Murray, p. 26

Les Murray, Southern Hemisphere Garden, p. 30

Geoffrey Moorhouse, Encountering Helsinki, p. 31

Stan Smith, Journeys to War, p. 36

Roberta Facchinetti, The Pleasures of Translating: An Interview with Domenico Pezzini, p. 46.

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ARTICLES

Jina Politi, Who Was the Man in the Macintosh? or The Union of Scholar-Gipsies with Moses, p. 50

Heidi Hansson, King Frost and the Ice Queen: Gendered Personifications of the North, p. 59

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BOOK REVIEWS

Jopi Nyman, Anne Holden Rønning, Dieter Fuchs, Rob Spence, Eric A. Anchimbe, Larisa Kocić-Zámbó, Peter Lawson, Erik Kooper, Marco de Waard, Patricia Novillo-Corvalán, Nataša Bakić-Mirić, p. 70

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CONFERENCE REPORTS

Pia Brinzeu, Shakespeare in Romania, p. 89

J. Rubén Valdés Miyares, “The Plots of History”, p. 90

Biljana Čubrović, 1st Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians, p. 92

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CALLS FOR PAPERS & ARTICLES , p. 94

ESSE BOARD MEMBERS: NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES, p. 96