Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 2000"

Code-switching in conversation: language, interaction and identity

Abstract: Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research. Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed. It addresses not only the structure and the function, but also the ideological values of such bilingual behaviour. The contributors question many views of code switching on the empirical basis of many European and non European contexts. By bringing together linguistics, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation action.

Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice

Abstract: The question of questions - beyond binary thinking, Janet M Bing and Victoria L Bergvall the language-gender interface - challenging co-optation, Deborah Cameron language and gender research in an experimental setting, Alice F Freed floor management and power strategies in adolescent conversation, Alice Greenwood women, men and prestige speech forms - a critical review, Deborah James storytellers and gatekeepers in economics, Livia Polanyi and Diana Strassmann consentual sex or sexual harassment - negotiating meaning, Susan Erlich and Ruth King constructing and enacting gender through discourse - negotiating multiple roles as female engineering students, Victoria L Bergvall dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable, Miriam Meyerhoff shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking Hijras, Kira Hall and Veronica O'Donovan black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice, Mary Bucholtz

A history of women's writing in France

Abstract: Introduction Sonya Stephens 1. Female voices in convents, courts and households: the French middle ages Roberta L. Krueger 2. To choose ink and pen: French Renaissance women's writing Cathleen M. Bauschatz 3. Altering the fabric of history: women's participation in the classical age Faith E. Beasley 4. The eighteenth century: women writing, women learning Jean Bloch 5. Eighteenth-century women novelists' genre and gender Martin Hall 6. The 19th century: shaping women Rosemary Lloyd 7. 1900-1969: writing the void Alex Hughes 8. From order to adventure: women's writing since 1970 Leslie Hill 9. Changing the script: women and the rise of autobiography Michael Sheringham 10. Women poets of the twentieth century Michael Bishop 11. Voicing the feminine: French women playwrights of the twentieth century Mary Noonan 12. Feminist literary theory Judith Still Bibliography of women writers and their work.

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy

Abstract: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism is the first collection of its kind: a diverse anthology that explores both how ecofeminism can enrich literary criticism and how literary criticism can contribute to ecofeminist theory and activism. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism. Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. Once considered the province of philosophy and women's studies, ecofeminism in recent years has been incorporated into a broader spectrum of academic discourse. Ecofeminist Literary Criticism assembles some of the most insightful advocates of this perspective to illuminate ecofeminism as a valuable component of literary criticism.

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity

Abstract: Introduction - Anglo-Saxonism and Mediaevalism, Allen J. Frantzen and John D. Niles Bede and Bawdy Bale - Gregory the Great, Angels, and the "Angli", Allen J. Frantzen Anglo-Saxonism in the Old English Laws, Mary P. Richards The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" Poems and the Making of the English Nation, Janet Thormann Received Wisdom - the Reception History of Alfred's Preface to the "Pastoral Care", Suzanne C. Hagedorn 19th-Century Scandinavia and the Birth of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Robert E. Bjork Mid-19th-Century American Anglo-Saxonism - the Question of Language, J.R. Hall Byrhtnoth in Dixie - the Emergence of Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Postbellum South, Gregory A. VanHoosier-Carey Historical Novels to Teach Anglo-Saxonism to Young Edwardians, Velma Bourgeois Richmond Appropriations - a Concept of Culture, John D. Niles.

Nation und Sprache : die Diskussion ihres Verhältnisses in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Abstract: Over the centuries, languages have played, and continue to play, a part in the political, cultural and ethnic definition of entities such as nation, empire or state.Using German as the main exemplar, but looking at other European languages as well, the book examines topics such as the geographical and demographic spread of languages, language and identity, language policy and legislation, language boundaries and political (and cultural and ethnic) boundaries, standard language and its varieties and the concept of a national language, linguistic and cultural patriotism.

The New Bergson

Abstract: Introduction Part I History and Method 1. Philo, Spinoza, Bergson: The rise of an ecological age - Richarrd A. Cohen 2. Method in Philosophy - Garrett Barden Part II Ontology 3. Bergson's Conception of Difference - Gilles Deleuze 4. Beneath Relativity: Bergson and Bohm on absolute time - Timothy S. Murphy Part III Mind 5. A Letter from Bergson to Dewey - 6. Matter and memory on mind and body: final statements and new perspectives - Frederic Worms 7. Bergson: The keyboards of forgetting - Marie Cariou 8. Bergson's concept of a person - Eric Matthews 9. Magic - F.C.T. Moore Part IV Life 10. Bergson and creative evolution/Involution: Exposing the transcendental illusion of organismic life - Keith Ansell Pearson 11. Bergson and the war against nature - P.A.Y. Gunter Part V Art 12. The rhythms of duration: Bergson and the Art of Matisse - Mark Antliff 13. Bergson and cinema: Friends or foes? - Paul Douglass

The Scottish invention of English literature

Abstract: Introduction Robert Crawford 1. From rhetoric to criticism Neil Rhodes 2. Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, and the institutions of English Ian Duncan 3. The prerequisites of power: Blair, belles lettres, and law Rajit Dosanjh 4. Blair's Ossian, Romanticism, and the teaching of literature Fiona Stafford 5. The origins of the university teaching of the novel Paul Bator 6. William Greenfield: gender and the transmission of literary culture Martin Moonie 7. The impact of Scottish literary teaching in North America Franklin E. Court 8. Scottish academia and the invention of American studies Andrew Hook 9. The influence of Scottish rhetoric on the formation of English studies in nineteenth-century English universities Linda Ferreira-Buckley 10. The impact of Scottish literary teaching in Australasia Chris Worth 11. Scottish writing and English studies Robert Crawford Bibliography Linda Ferreira-Buckley List of bibliographical essays.

The Problem of Being Modern, or the German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution

Abstract: A reading of German intellectual history in the context of European thought, this book aims to give insights into the development of the Enlightenment in Germany. It argues that writers of the period tried to reconcile traditional Protestant beliefs about God with modern scientific discoveries.

Language policy and pedagogy : essays in honor of A. Ronald Walton

Abstract: 1. Introduction (by Lambert, Richard D.) 2. Language Practice, Language Ideology, and Language Policy (by Spolsky, Bernard) 3. The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning (by Fishman, Joshua A.) 4. The Way Ahead: European Recommendations for Language Teaching Policy Development into the Next Century (by Trim, John L.M.) 5. The Winds of Change in Foreign Language Instruction (by Lambert, Richard D.) 6. Foreign Language and Area Studies through Title VI: Assessing Supply and Demand (by Merkx, Gilbert) 7. System III: The Future of Language Learning in the United States (by Brecht, Richard D.) 8. An Early Start for Foreign Languages (but Not English) in the Netherlands (by Bot, Kees de) 9. Elementary School Immersion in Less Commonly Taught Languages (by Met, Myriam) 10. Forging a Link: Tapping the National Heritage Language Resources in The United States (by Wang, Xue-Ying) 11. Focus on Form in Task-Based Language Teaching (by Long, Mike) 12. Language Learning and Intercultural Competence (by Steele, Ross) 13. Acquired Culture in the Japanese Language Classroom (by Jorden, Eleanor H.) 14. Performed Culture: Learning to Participate in Another Culture (by Walker, Galal) 15. What Do They Do?: Activities of Students during Study Abroad (by Ginsberg, Ralph B.) 16. Contributors 17. Subject Index

Phonological theory and the dialects of Italy

Abstract: 1. Acknowledgments 2. List of Contributors 3. Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy (by Repetti, Lori) 4. The Relationship Between Vowel Length and Consonantal Voicing in Friulian (by Baroni, Marco) 5. Consonant Gemination in Neapolitan (by Bullock, Barbara E.) 6. The Feature [Advanced Tongue Root] and Vowel Fronting in Romance (by Calabrese, Andrea) 7. Vowel Alternation, Vowel/Consonant Assimilation and OCP Effects in a Barese Dialect (by D'Introno, Francesco) 8. How Many Moras? Overlength and Maximal Moraicity in Italy (by Hajek, John) 9. Stress Stability Under Cliticization and the Prosodic Status of Romance Clitics (by Loporcaro, Michele) 10. Phonological Dissimilation and Clitic Morphology in Italo-Romance (by Maiden, Martin) 11. Oxytone Infinitives in the Dialect of Pisa (by Marotta, Giovanna) 12. Sonority and Derived Clusters in Raeto-Romance and Gallo-Italic (by Montreuil, Jean-Pierre Y.) 13. Stress and Schwa in Faetar (by Nagy, Naomi) 14. Vowel Lengthening in Milanese (by Vives, Pilar Prieto i) 15. Uneven or Moraic Trochees? Evidence from Emilian and Romagnol Dialects (by Repetti, Lori) 16. Index of Names 17. Index of Terms & Concepts

Dickens and the children of empire

Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction W.S.Jacobson Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic J.Bowen Dickens and the Construction of the Child J.Kincaid Suppressing Narratives: Childhood ad Empire in The Uncommercial Traveller and Great Expectations G.Smith The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend , and the Victorian Picturesque M.Baumgarten Dickens and Gold Rush Fever: Colonial Contagion in Household Words L.Nayder Floating Signifiers of Britishness in the Novels of the Anti-Slave-Trade Squadron C.Gallagher Dickens and the Native American K.Flint Nationalism and Violence: America in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit R.E.Lougy Girls Underground, Boys Overseas: Some Graveyard Vignettes C.Robson What the Waves were Always Saying: Dombey and Son and Textual Ripples on an African Shore M.V.W.Smith Savages and Settlers in Dickens: Reading Multiple Centres A.Chennells Dickens in Africa: Africanizing Hard Times G.Matsika Primitive and Wingless: The Colonial Subject as Child B.Ashcroft Index

Simone de Beauvoir : a critical reader

Abstract: Introduction, Elizabeth Fallaize. Part 1. Readings of The Second Sex. 1. Rereading The Second Sex Judith Okely 2. Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex Judith Butler 3. The Weight of the Situation Sonia Kruks Beauvoir 4. Independent Women and Narratives of Liberation Toril Moi 5. The Master-Slave Dialectic in The Second Sex Eva Lundgren-Gothlin Part 2. Readings of the Autobiography. 6. The Father in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Francis Jeanson 7. Murdering the Mother in Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Alex Hughes 8. Encounters with Death in A Very Easy Death Elaine Marks 9. The Body in Decline in Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre Elaine Marks Part 3. Readings of Fiction. 10. Self-Encounter in She Came to Stay Hazel Barnes 11. She Came to Stay: The Phallus Strikes Back Jane Heath 12. Mythical Discourse in 'The Woman Destroyed Anne Ophir 13. Narrative Strategies and Sexual Politics Elizabeth Fallaize Further Reading.

Ceremony and community from Herbert to Milton : literature, religion, and cultural conflict in seventeenth-century England

Abstract: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Reading the conflicts: ceremony, ideology and the meaning of religion 3. George Herbert: devotion in The Temple and the art of contradiction 4. Robert Herrick: religious experience in the 'Temple' of Hesperides 5. Sir Thomas Browne: the promiscuous embrace of ritual order 6. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part I, 1634-1660 7. John Milton: carnal idolatry and the reconfiguration of worship, part II, after the Restoration: the major poems Notes Index.

Byromania : portraits of the artist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture

Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Plates Introduction: Byron, Byronism, and Bryomaniacs F.Wilson His Grand Show: Byron and the Myth of Mythmaking P.W.Graham Conjuring Byron: Byromania, Literary Commodification and the Birth of Celebrity G.MacDaytor The Life of Byron or, Southey Was Right P.Cochran Silver-Fork Byron and the Image of Regency England A.Elfenbein Byronic Bioplays W.Huber Fantasy and Transfiguration: Byron and His Portraits C.K.Jones Screening Byron: The Idiosyncrasies of Film Myth R.M.Ralston & S.L.Sondergard Undead Byron T.Holland The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance R.Sales Byronic Confession J.Soderholm An Exaggerated Woman: The Melodramas of Lady Caroline Lamb F.Wilson Appendix: Byron in Fiction: A List of Books A.A.Smith Index

Speaking the other self : American women writers

Abstract: Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume represents the fruits of the dramatic and celebrated growth of the study of American women writers today. From established figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Katherine Ann Porter to emerging voices including early American novelist Tabitha Tenney; the first African American novelist, Harriet E. Wilson; modern dramatist Sophie Treadwell; and contemporaries such as Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, and June Jordan, the essays present fresh approaches and furnish a wealth of illustrations for the multiple selves created and addressed in women's writing. These selves intersect and connect to embody a multiethnic rhetoric of the "self" that is uniquely feminine and uniquely American. Calling attention to their "American feminist rhetoric," Jeanne Campbell Reesman identifies many connections among different feminist, post structuralist, narratological, and comparativist strategies. The voices of Speaking the Other Sel f well represent the inner and outer, speaking and hearing, centre and frame in women's writing in America, their intersections constructing an ongoing conversation, a borderland of new possibilities--a borderland with no borders, no barriers to thought and response and change, no end of possible voices and selves.

A.C. Swinburne : a poet's life

Abstract: Contents: Introduction A Small Satisfied Pagan The River and the Block Commoner Swinburne 'Such Fair Green Seasons' 'And None be Grievous as This to Me' A Temple of Lizards The Libidinous Laureate The Church of Rebels 'Glory to Man in the Highest!' 'A Rain and Ruin of Roses' The Puppet-Show 'Closer than a Brother' 'The Measureless Music of Things' 'Deep Silence Answers' Notes Select Bibliography Index.

The challenges of uncertainty : an introduction to seventeenth-century Spanish literature

Abstract: An introduction to Spanish Baroque literature and culture, this text considers works by major Spanish novelists, dramatists, poets and painters. It covers issues such as honour and identity, the influence of the court, social and literary institutions, and the place of women in cultural life.

Essays on Ricardian literature : in honour of J.A. Burrow

Abstract: Though there is no essay devoted exclusively to Gower, he is named frequently in the pages of this collection, as one might expect from the friends and colleagues of J.A. Burrow, who himself has written so compellingly on our poet. Among the more important references: Ardis Butterfield ("French Culture and the Ricardian Court," pp. 82-120) offers a subtle and well-informed examination of the inter-penetration of French and English literary culture during the Ricardian period, emphasizing the mutuality of cultural influences that was a natural product of the close family ties between royal and aristocratic houses in contrast to a common tendency (among Anglophone writers) to emphasize the distinctness of the English from the French. In a brief consideration of the puy as an example of cultural imitation, Butterfield dismisses the suggestion of Gower's association as far-fetched since there is no evidence of continuity much beyond 1300; and in her discussion of the practice of quoting already existing refrains in new compositions she cites CB 25. In the final part of her essay she gives more direct attention to Gower as one whose works are "supremely poised between linguistic cultures" (p. 107). She compares CB 37 to a ballade of Guillaume Machaut, not to establish borrowing, though an argument for at least indirect influence would not be difficult to make, but to demonstrate how thoroughly at home Gower is in contemporary French poetic idiom, contrary to the judgment of those who have seen either a discontinuity with French courtly writing or a reaction against it in Gower's work. She also gives brief consideration to Traite as a conclusion to CA, which it follows in 8 of the 10 MSS in which it is preserved. There is more than a single paradox to the relation, Butterfield points out, as Gower turns to more love poetry immediately after renouncing any further writing about love, and as he draws upon the authority of French to offer a very un-French defense of married love, creating an instability that is typical of the "endemic restlessness" of Gower's poetic career and his constant habit of setting up "oblique contrasts between different kinds of cultural perspectives" (p. 120). A.G. Rigg ("Anglo-Latin in the Ricardian Age," pp. 121-41) cites Gower at least once on almost every page in his survey of the role and status of Anglo-Latin during the last half of the fourteenth century, focusing on the Ricardian era in particular. "In this period," he writes, "we begin to see clearly the trends that would later lead to both the demise of Latin as a medium for creative writing and its protection as a unique manifestation of classical civilization" (p. 122). His essay is an engaging supplement both to his own History of Anglo-Latin Literature (1066-1422) and to Burrow's Ricardian Poetry, as he describes how Latin writers were like or unlike contemporary writers in English, using the features that Burrow defined as characteristic of the Ricardian age. Along the way, he makes many useful observations about how Gower was like or unlike other contemporary writers in Latin. To use a small example, Gower's use of the enclitic que for et, which stands out so prominently for those more accustomed to classical Latin, is, Riggs asserts, entirely typical of his age (p. 133); and on a larger matter, he notes that the most typical subject matter of late 14th-century Latin poetry is "historical" (as opposed to classical, Biblical, or devotional), the only exceptions being a few of Gower's own short poems. In the last part of his essay, he juxtaposes three different examples of such historical writing, Thomas Barry's "Battle of Otterburn" (a straightforward factual account in verse), Gower's TC (in which the poet "has entirely manipulated history for his poetic and political agenda," p. 138), and the Visio in Book 1 of VC, "the most striking example of the use of contemporary history . . . for literary purposes" (pp. 138-39), presenting a vision that "more than any other dream-vision I know, mirrors the common experience of a bad dream" (p. 139). More briefly, Stephen Medcalf ("The World and Heart of Thomas Usk," pp. 222-253) cites Venus' instruction that Chaucer write his own "testament of love" (CA 8.2955*) as "the only probable evidence of a contemporary's having read" Usk's poem of that name; and Charlotte Morse ("From 'Ricardian Poetry' to Ricardian Studies," pp. 316-44) cites a number of recent studies of Gower (including works by Middleton, Yeager, Scanlon, and Spearing) in her survey of critical work on the Ricardian period that appeared following the publication of Burrow's ground-breaking study in 1971. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 20.1]