{"id":873,"date":"2016-01-11T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?page_id=873"},"modified":"2016-01-11T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T20:53:54","slug":"issue-vi1-spring-1997","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/back-issues-1990-2005\/issue-vi1-spring-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue VI\/1 &#8211; Spring 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/mes61.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-874\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-874\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/mes61.jpg?resize=211%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mes61\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Cover: Jerry Bauer&#8217;s photograph of John Banville with the ghost of a letter by James Joyce.<br \/>\nDesignd by Didier Mallat.<\/small><\/p>\n<h4><big>Contents<\/big><\/h4>\n<h4>Editorial<\/h4>\n<p>(De)Grading Standards<\/p>\n<h4>ESSE Matters<\/h4>\n<p>President&#8217;s Column: In Defence of Research<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Helmut Bonheim<br \/>\nSecretary&#8217;s Report: Breaking the Seal<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Norman Blake<\/p>\n<h4>Interview<\/h4>\n<p>John Banville<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Hedwig Schall<\/p>\n<h4>Articles<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;True Originall Copies&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Graham Holderness and Carol Baker<br \/>\n&#8220;Memorandum&#8221; and &#8220;Milestone&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Helen Wilcox<\/p>\n<h4>Computer Corner<\/h4>\n<p>In-Sites<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Adam Piette<\/p>\n<h4>Englishes in Europe<\/h4>\n<p>English as an Academic Discipline in Germany<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Herbert Grabes<br \/>\nBordervoicing<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Tatiana Jukics<br \/>\nLiterary Theory in Post-Communist Scholarship<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Gy\u00f6rgy Sz\u00f6ny<br \/>\nEnglish Studies in Modern Russia<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-S.G. Ter-Minasova<br \/>\nESSE and American Studies<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Hans Borchers<\/p>\n<h4>Reports<\/h4>\n<p>International Shakespeare Roundtable,ESSE\/3 Glasgow 1995<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Mariangela Tempera<br \/>\nDickens in Dijon<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Anny Sadrin<br \/>\nSpaces In-Between: Negotiating Boundaries<br \/>\nin Post-Colonial Writing<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Werner Sedlak<br \/>\nFrom Women&#8217;s Studies to Gender Studies<br \/>\n&#8211; A New Agenda?<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Elfi Bettinger &amp; Ewa Welnic<\/p>\n<h4>Reviews<\/h4>\n<p>Elective Outsiders<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Adam Piette<br \/>\nLanguage and . . .Literature?<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Katie Wales<br \/>\nIreland in Europe<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Toni O&#8217;Brien Johnson<br \/>\nWhose Desire?<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Margaret Bridges<br \/>\nNew Perspectives on the Nineties<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Rolf Schneider<\/p>\n<h4>Rejoinders<\/h4>\n<p>De Man, Derrida, and the Continuous Present of Deconstruction<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-John Coombes<br \/>\nForeign Lecturers in Italy: Committee for the Defence<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-David Petrie<br \/>\nItaly: EFL Lecturers Teach<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Mark Walters<\/p>\n<h4>ESSE\/4 Debrecen<\/h4>\n<p>Registration Material<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover: Jerry Bauer&#8217;s photograph of John Banville with the ghost of a letter by James Joyce. 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