Contents

Editors’ Introduction


Ten Years After: Celebrating ABC 10
THE EDITORS READ                                                                                                              

Horizons of Change 
                                                                          
Narrating Britain into the Twenty-First Century: Backwards? Forwards? Sideways?
RANDALL STEVENSON ABSTRACT   
                                                                                              
Introspections / Retrospections
                                                       
The ‘Backstage’ of Classic Modernity: Time and Leisure in the City in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Culture Texts
ALEXANDRU DRAGOŞ IVANA ABSTRACT 
                                                                                   
Boundaries of Mourning: Gender, Poetry, and Place in Wordsworth’s “Maternal Grief”
CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG ABSTRACT 
                                                                                           
“What is Africa to Me?”: Modernism’s Double Life in Hemingway and Larsen
JIM HICKS ABSTRACT 
                                                                                                                                  
A Stylistic Analysis of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
ANCA MUREŞANU ABSTRACT 
                                                                                                        
Robert Duncan: The Stylistics of the Self
CLEMENTINA MIHĂILESCU ABSTRACT 
                                                                                       
Suicide as Affirmation and Gender as a Conscious Choice: The Deconstruction of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Major Novels
ANA-BLANCA CIOCOI-POP ABSTRACT 
                                                                                         
Kissing Women: the Fiction of Sarah Waters
JOANNE BISTHON ABSTRACT
                                                                                                                         
Looking Through the Iron Curtain: Stoppard and Stănescu’s Political Absurdism
REBECCA NESVET ABSTRACT
                                                                                                          
Cultural Alterities                                                                             

“The Great Race”? The African Other and Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Horror Fiction
DAVID SIMMONS ABSTRACT
                                                                                                                        
De « l’homme à fragments » à « l’homme rapaillé ». Les enjeux identitaires dans l’œuvre de Cioran et de Gaston Miron
DUMITRA BARON ABSTRACT
                                                                                                                        
Fiction et fictionnalisation chez Hubert Aquin
DORIN COMŞA ABSTRACT
                                                                                                                 
In-Theory                                                                                                       

The Challenge of Critical Reflexivity through a Postmodern Paradox
FABIO AKCELRUD DURÃO ABSTRACT
                                                                                           

Cultural Strategy in the Golden Age of Terror: The Relationship of the 1964 New York World’s Fair to the New Frontier and the Cold War
DAVID BRIAN HOWARD ABSTRACT
                                                                                              
The Postmodern Zone                                                                                   

Games Doctors Play: Remedy as Cybernetic Strategy in Postmodern Fiction
T. RAVICHANDRAN ABSTRACT
                                                                                                       
Fiction and Commercialization in David Foster Wallace’s Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
JAROSLAV KUŠNÍR ABSTRACT

“Pathological Rationality” in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and Saturday
CAROLINE BENNETT ABSTRACT

Cinescapes

Tact and Tactility: On Jane Campion’s In the Cut
ASBJØRN GRØNSTAD ABSTRACT

Across Linguistics

Building Translation Skills in an Academic Framework
MARIA-TEODORA CREANGĂ ABSTRACT

Sightlines