Innovation and Continuity in English Studies

Contents : Ian Kirby: IAUPE Past and Present - Hazard Adams: What Rough Beast? - Todd K. Bender: Innovation and Continuity in English Studies - Murray Krieger: Theory, Post-Theory, and the Fate of the "Literary" - Sergio Perosa: Why English Literature? - Roger Sell: Communication: A Counterbalance to Professional Specialisation - Ulrich Broich: Does the Canon Have a Future in English Studies? - Lawrence Lerner: Representing the Oppressed - Jean-Jacques Lecercle: Nursery Rhymes and History: Poetry as Induction - J. R. Watson: The Changing Landscape: Some Dates in Romantic Period English Studies, 1951 to 2001 - Emory Elliott: Cultural Diversity and the Problem of Aesthetics - Ihab Hassan: Counterpoints: Nationalism, Colonialism, Multiculturalism, and Spirit - Edwin Thumboo: "Strands in the Labels - Innovation and Continuity in English Studies: A View From Singapore" - Kaiser Haq: "The times they are a-changing", even in an LDC: Musings on English Studies from Dhaka - Okifumi Komesu: The Creative Circle in the Intercultural Literary Process - Yoshihiko Ikegami: Between Language and Literature, Philology and Linguistics: An Historical Review of English Studies in Japan - Norman Blake: The History of the English Language - Matti Rissanen: Variation, Change and New Evidence in the Study of the History of English - Dieter Kastovsky: Local and Global-Typological Changes in the History of English: Two Complementary Perspectives - Hans Sauer: The Old English Suffix - el/-il/-ol/-ul/-l (ModE - le, cf. beetle, girdle, thistle ) as Attested in the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary - Arne Zettersten: On English Lexicography at the Turn of the Millennium.

The Editor: Herbert Grabes is Professor of English at Justus Liebig University, Giessen/Germany. His main areas of research are sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, modern American literature, and literary theory.