Issue XVIII/1 – Spring 2009 – The ESSE Messenger

Cover design, and image manipulation: Kristian Stotesbury, Hämeenlinna, Finland.
Images: Front and Back Covers “ThisWay, and That” (GarniTemple, Armenia) by John A Stotesbury; pp. 19-20, by arrangement with The British Library; p. 21, by arrangement with The Imperial War Museum; p. 22, “Franco Marenco,” by Giuseppina Cortese.

ESSE MATTERS

Fernando Galván, The ESSE President’s Column, p. 2

Editorial Notes, Password, p. 4

ESSE Bursary Awards for 2009, p. 5

ESSE-10 Conference, Torino, 24-28 August 2010, p. 6

EJES, The European Journal of English Studies, p. 7

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RESEARCH REPORT

The Evaluation of Research, p. 13

World War One Literature: Oxford Launches Major New Digital Archive, p. 18

Giuseppina Cortese, Of Openings and Closures: An Interview with Franco Marenco, p. 22

Gerd Rohmann and Eva Oppermann, Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium: “Aldous Huxley in America”, p. 27

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WRITERS, WRITING

Eva Ulrike Pirker, “History Is the Stories YouTell”: Louise Doughty and Andrea Levy in Conversation, p. 30

Stan Smith, “Theatres ofWar”, p. 40

John Eppel, “A Hard Day’s Night”, p. 41

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ARTICLES

Nigel Fabb, Symmetric and Asymmetric Relations, and the Aesthetics of Form in Poetic Language, p. 50

LidiaVianu, Lidia Vianu,The AfterMode, p. 60

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BOOK REVIEWS

Pia Brînzeu, David Malcolm, Anouk Lang, Didac Llorens Cubedo, Benjamin Keatinge, Judith Munat, Anne-Marie Millim,Valeria Pellis, Sostene Massimo Zangari, Adrian Radu, Aspasia Velissariou, John Miller, Linara Bartkuviene, Rob Spence, Konstantina Georganta, Marilena Parlati, p. 69

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CALLS FOR PAPERS & ARTICLES, p. 92