American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 29

Contents

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Editorial

MERRITT MOSELEY 5

Dis/Graceful Liberties: Textual Libertinism/Libertine Texts in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

HAGEN BEN DRISS 23

Alternative Ways of Challenging and Resisting in Richard Rodriguez's Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

AITOR-IBARROLA-ARMENDARIZ 46

"Nobody gets out alive. This place just a big coffin": On Death and Dying in American Prisons

RALUCA ANDREESCU 65

The Latest Battle: Depictions of the Calormen in The Chronicles of Narnia

ANDREW HOWE 84

Death, Innocence, and the Cyborg: Theorizing the Gynoid

Double-Bind in Oshii's Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence

KWASU D. TEMBO 126

"Ava's body is a good one": (Dis)Embodiment in Ex Machina

JENNIFER HENKE 126

Food for Thought: Of Tables, Art and Women in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

ESTELLA ANTOANETA CIOBANU 147

There's a Double Tongue in Cheek: On the Un(Translatability) of Shakespeare's Bawdy Puns into Romanian

ANCA-SIMINA MARTIN 169

Dialogus 190

Irwine Welsh in Sibiu

ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 191

Book Reviews

Michael Wood. On Empson

ADRIANA NEAGU

Michaela Mudure, ed. Mary Wollstonecraft: Reflections and Interpretations

ADRIANA NEAGU

Renate Haas, ed. Rewriting Academia: The Development of the Anglicit Women's and Gender Studies of Continental Europe

ANCA-LUMINIŢA IANCU 203

Alexander Search with Suman Gupta, Fabio Akcelrud Durao and Terrence McDonough. Entrepreneurial Literary Theory: A Debate on Research and the Future of Academia

ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 209