Faces of English
CONTENTS, PREFACE
Contents
Preface (Kathleen E. Dubs, Katalin Balogné Bérces, Kinga Földváry and Veronika Schandl)
FACES OF A LANGUAGE
1 Across Disciplines: Translation as Knowledge Crossing Borders (Ágnes Somló)
2 Factors Affecting the Pronunciation of Letter 's': A Study of Hungarian (Ildikó Tóth)
3 The Lexicon as a Face of the Language: The Story of Latin Loanwords in English and the Reaction against them (András Cser)
4 Filling the Hiatus: A Changing Face of English (Katalin Balogné Bérces)
5 Business English Teacher Competencies (Rita Mészárosné Kóris)
MEDITATION AND DISCOURSE - EARLY PROFILES
6 "It is time that begets iudgement and assurance": Faces of English in John Finet's Introductory Material to his Translation of R. Lucinge's The Beginning Continuance and Decay of Estates (Zsolt Almási)
7 Faces of the Other-World in the Earliest Old English Series of Homilies:
A Dogma in Formation. Two Homiletic Visions by Aelfric (Tamás Karáth)
8 Facing Indecent Textual Discourses: The Mock Trial Scene of Shakespeare's King Lear in the Light of Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (Judit Mudriczki)
9 The Figure of the Rood: Mediaeval Theology Reshaping Rhetorical Tropes (Zsuzsanna Péri-Nagy)
THEATRICAL MASKS AND DISGUISES
10 Richard III: a Vice-figure or the Negative Mirror of Humanity? (Edina Magdolna Berta)
11 Cultural Memory and Changing Textuality: Two Hungarian Playscripts from the Nineties (Katalin Palkóné Tabi)
12 Faces of the English: An Intimate Portrait of a Public Face. David Garrick: "Imagine him as a play" (Gabriella Reuss)
13 "Then saw you not his face?" - Morphing Images of "Hamlet the Hungarian" (Veronika Schandl)
POETIC PHYSIOGNOMIES
14 The Ending of Ode to the West Wind and Shelley's Concept of Necessity (János Barcsák)
15 "A Beast, an Angel and a Madman": Birthday Portraits of Dylan Thomas (Kinga Földváry)
16 Physiognomy in Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Heads, Faces, Eyes (Péter Benedek Tóta)
GLIMPSES AT OVERSEAS - GENRES FACE TO FACE
17 The Face of Early American Satire: Reading Benjamin Franklin (Kathleen E. Dubs)
18 Stories of Survival as Means of Survival in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz and Crescent (Ildikó Limpár)
19 Facing Death: Popular Visual Culture and the Forensic Paradigm (Dávid Palatinus)
20 "The Importance of Individuals" and the Demonic Circles of Consciousness in Bend Sinister: Nabokov and William James (Márta Pellérdi)
21 The Notions of Omission and Disremembering in Toni Morrison's Beloved (Anita Szabó)
THE FACES
Preface
The publication of this volume of essays revives the Pázmány Papers in English and American Studies series launched by the Institute of English Studies in 2001.
The profile for this issue, Faces of English, was chosen because it lent itself to all the specialties represented by the members of the Institute, providing a snapshot not only of the specific fields of the faculty, but the wide-ranging investigations included within those rather traditional disciplines. Thus the articles include analyses in linguistics, literature, methodology, and culture studies. During the editing process, all the papers underwent two rounds of serious and thorough reviewing both in content and language.
The arrangement of the essays reflects partly their common roots in a discipline, partly the topical connections between them that the peer-reviewing process further enhanced. Therefore studies in linguistics have been grouped in the first chapter (entitled Faces of a Language), together with an essay on translation theory and another one on methodology, the wide scope of these being held together by their shared interest in the ways language users draw portraits of the language and themselves at the same time.
The second group of writings (Meditation and Discourse - Early Profiles) represents Mediaeval and Renaissance/Early Modern studies, offering the reader glimpses of the complex textual portraits that are also bound together by their connections to the pragmatic aspects of writing, as seen in rhetoric and theology.
The third group of essays (Theatrical Masks and Disguises), comprising portraits of drama on the page and the stage, offer a particularly straightforward interpretation of the volume's thematic interests, as the dramatic representation is concerned, probably more than any other branch of art, with presenting faces, masks, personae that can be taken up and discarded by actor and director, and also by the reader or researcher, as the occasion necessitates.
After theatre and drama, where masks serve the purpose of hiding the original and personal faces of actors and participants, the next group of essays focuses on the more intimate and subjective but also inward-looking genre of literature, that is poetry (Poetic Physiognomies). As opposed to putting on masks, these essays shed light on how the poetic persona is suggested by the contours on the portraits drawn by lyric poetry.
The final chapter (Glimpses at Overseas - Genres Face to Face) represents the work done in the field of American studies, together with interdisciplinary research in probably the most dynamically developing field, film and media studies. Moreover, the very last essay in this group and the volume as well may also be interpreted as a prophetic portrait, giving a glimpse of the next generation of English studies: the winner of the Ruttkay essay prize, offered for the best student writing in the year 2009.
The closing section of the book introduces the authors of the papers, that is, the "faces" who contributed to the volume.
The editors hope that you find the selections included in the volume informative, provocative, and enjoyable. And, of course, attractive, as we all intend to appear when showing our faces to the public.
Piliscsaba, August 2010