Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert (Halle-Wittenberg)
Preface
Section I: The Long Eighteenth Century
Therese Fischer-Seidel (Düsseldorf)
The Long Eighteenth Century: Introduction
Howard D. Weinbrot (Wisconsin, Madison)
"Root Out This Cursed Race": Defoe's Shortest Way With the
Dissenters and his Longer Way With Himself
Burkhard Niederhoff (Bochum)
From Honest, Downright Barbarity to the Art of Being Natural:
Primitivism in Restoration Comedy
Sabine Baltes (Chemnitz)
'Creators of Mirth and Whim': Popular Irish Dramatists on the
Eighteenth-Century English Stage
Laurenz Volkmann (Jena)
Back with a Vengeance: The Return of Bernard Mandeville
Christian Huck (London)
Calico Bill and the Calico Madams: Fashion, Print, and the Public
Ingrid-Charlotte Wolter (Düsseldorf)
Education to Individuality - Individual Educationalists:
Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
Michael Szczekalla (Greifswald)
Pleading for the Autonomy of Ethics - A Fresh Look at Free-thinking
in the Essays and Dialogues of Shaftesbury and Hume
Section II: Creative Writing
Ian Watson (Bremen) and Frank J. Kearful (Bonn)
Creative Writing: Past, Present, Future
Andrew Motion (London)
Where Do all the Creative Writing Graduates Go?
Rob Pope (Oxford)
Critical Reading into Creative Re-writing:
Textual Intervention in English Studies Now
Glenn Patterson (Belfast)
Can Writers Teach Writing?
Susanne Bach (Kassel)
"Punk-Tuition" for "Harry Krishner" - Creative Writing in Literature
Barbara Glindemann (Hamburg)
Self-Directed and Imaginative Learning in School Projects:
A Constructivist Didactics of Creative Writing
Section III: Politics and Literature
Jana Gohrisch (Hanover) and Merle Tönnies (Paderborn)
Introduction
Andrew James Johnston (Berlin)
Literary Politics in Debate: Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls and
Clanvowe's Book of Cupid
Annette Pankratz (Bochum)
Body Power: Sexual Politics in Late 17th Century Poetry
Dirk Wiemann (Tübingen)
Bodies in Collision: Hobbes, Milton and the Body Politic
Susanne Scholz (Frankfurt)
The Politics of Degeneration in Late Victorian Literature
Jens Martin Gurr (Duisburg-Essen)
The 'Native' Cites Back: Postcolonial Theory and the Politics
of Jim Jarmusch's Western Dead Man
Aleks Sierz (London)
"Political What-Do-Ya-Call-It": British Drama and Its Politics
Section IV: Postcolonial Aesthetics
Elleke Boehmer (London)
A Postcolonial Aesthetic: Aspiration or Anxiety?
Tobias Döring and Cordula Lemke (Munich)
The Postcolonial Sublime: Ossian's Scotland
Monika Fludernik (Freiburg)
Is There a Postcolonial Sublime?
Günter Leypoldt and Lars Eckstein (Tübingen)
T.S. Eliot and the Transcultural Sublime
Virginia Richter (Munich)
The Nowhere Man: Strangeness as Aesthetic Means in the Work
of V.S. Naipaul
Susanne Reichl (Vienna)
Reading Aesthetics as Politics in Postcolonial Literatures
Sissy Helff (Frankfurt)
Signs Taken For Truth: Orchestrating Transcultural Aesthetics
through Transcultural Unreliable Narration
Sigrun Meinig (Dresden)
Connecting Difference and Sameness: Empathy, Equality
and Post-Colonial Literatures
Section V: Standards and Norms
Friederike Klippel (Munich) and Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen)
Standards and Norms in Language Description and Language Teaching:
An Introduction
Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna)
English as a Lingua Franca and Communities of Practice
Claus Gnutzmann (Brunswick)
Teaching and Learning English in a Global Context:
Applied-Linguistic and Pedagogical Perspectives
Christiane Meierkord (Münster)
Standards and Norms in Interactions Across Second Language Englishes:
The Case of South Africa
Christian Mair (Freiburg) and Sandra Mollin (Heidelberg)
Getting at the Standards Behind the Standard Ideology:
What Corpora Can Tell Us About Linguistic Norms
Ute Römer (Hanover)
Learner Language and the Norms in Native Corpora and EFL Teaching
Materials: A Case Study of English Conditionals
Joybrato Mukherjee (Giessen)
Exploring and Annotating a Spoken English Learner Corpus:
A Work-in-Progress Report
Matthias Hutz (Freiburg)
Standards and Norms in Academic Writing:
A Cross-linguistic Comparison
Christiane Bongartz (Cologne)
Studying Classroom Language: Curricular Planning and Proficiency
Assessment in Young Foreign Language Learners
Section VI: Varia
Anne Schröder (Halle)
Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Productivity:
Evidence from English Verbal Morphology
Susanne Mühleisen (Bayreuth)
Of Lessees, Retirees and Beseechees: a Corpus-based Analysis of
the Productivity of a Heterogeneous Word-formation Pattern in English
Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (Potsdam)
Prosody, Construction Grammar and Language Change
Marco Schilk (Giessen)
Using WWW-derived Corpora in Research into Second-language
Varieties of English: Focus on Verb Complementation in Indian English
Patricia Plummer (Mainz)
Insatiable Desires: (Sub)Versions of Gender in William Beckford's
Vathek and Frances Sheridan's The History of Nourjahad
Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Rostock)
Longing for Origins in Postmodern Times:
Absent Parents in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans (2000)
and Never Let Me Go (2005)
Dietmar Böhnke (Leipzig)
Brave New Scotland?
National Identity and Contemporary Scottish Fiction