American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 17

Contents

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	Page
Introduction
Research in the Humanities	5
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER

In Theory	11
Narrative and Discursive Games: Translating the Postcolonial into the Postcommunist	12
MARIA-SABINA DRAGA ALEXANDRU

Split Modernity: Elements for a Cosmopolitan Theory in Stephen Toulmin’s Cosmopolis	23
GABRIEL C. GHERASIM

Retrospections / Introspections	35
“Sahib, you are no longer a guest . . . . You are one of the family”: Wilfred Thesiger and the ‘Problem’ of Participant Observation	36
DAVID SIMMONS and WASFI SHOQAIRAT

Black Sheriffs and Villains in White Hats: The Image of the Hero in Western Parodies	48
MATTHEW R. TURNER

In Text	67
Narrative Proximity in the Work of Nelson Algren	68
DOUGLAS COWIE

Which Is Witch? Exit Women/Enter Saints in Arthur Miller’s Crucible	90
SÉLIMA LEJRI

In-Practice	105
The First Romanian Translations of Hamlet	106
OANA-ALIS ZAHARIA

Explicitation: A Translation Technique	121
MARIA-TEODORA CREANGĂ

Intentionality in the Use of Language Ambiguity: A Pragmatic Approach	131
ANDREEA TEODORESCU

Dialogus	139
The Shifting Role of Scholarly Journals in the Field of English Studies	140
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER

Reviews	145
Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White, eds., Composition Studies in the New Millennium	146
ALI SHEHZAD ZAIDI

Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas, eds., Scandinavian Crime Fiction	149
CHARLOTTE BEYER

John A. McClure, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison	153
ADRIANA NEAGU

Notes on Contributors	157
Call for Papers	162
Call for Membership	165