Teaching English/teaching literature? Changing conceptions of language in the Anglophone academy / Michael Bell -- The genealogy of postmodernist morals in Shakespeare's King John / Boris Berić-- "How do you sew the night?" Longing and belonging as poetic travails in troubled times : the politics of Michael Longley / Stephen Rowley -- The tragedy of English imperialism and Irish nationalism in Brian Friel's Translations / Robert Sullivan -- Montenegro : a novel by Starling Lawrence / Marija Knežević -- Memories of identity in Simić's Yesterday's people / Vesna Lopic̆ić and Milena Kostić -- Victorianism in recent Victorian fiction / Peter Preston -- Sexual politics and textual strategies in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Ginnette Katz-Roy -- The single girl and the city : gender issues and role models / Vladislava Gordić Petković -- Challenging the borders : Truman Capote's In cold blood / Goran Radonjić -- Coping with 9/11 : history in the making in Don DeLillo's and Paul Auster's fiction / Zoran Paunović
Summary
Contributions reprinted in this book highlight some of the wide ranging ways in which the issues of culture and identity can be approached in a literary text, while focusing on the ways in which cultural encounters have been changing both the world and its reflection in literature. The beginning of the twenty first century is an appropriate time to repay careful attention to these issues. Understanding how our perception of the Other changes Other the concept of the world we inhabit, we want t ..