Beyond Diversity: The Past and the Future of English Studies (Dis/Continuities)

This book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, show the academic potential of English Studies - its most contemporary lines of investigation seen against the area's traditional concerns. The chapters illustrate a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies - disciplines traditionally pursued at Departments of English. They also show an expansion of the core philological lines of research into other areas of knowledge, such as semiotics or comparative and cognitive studies. The book thus makes a strong case that the philological ethos, reflected in the Polish translation of "English Studies" as filologia angielska, still constitutes a valuable academic formula. Table of contents Notes on Contributors Waldemar Skrzypczak, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marta Sibierska • Introduction Mirosława Buchholtz • Images Cut to Shape: Henry James and Joseph Conrad in Max Beerbohm’s Cartoons and Cynthia Ozick’s Novella Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk • Changing Places: Art and an Artist of the Globalizing World Aleksander Szwedek • The OBJECT Image Schema Leszek Berezowski • Indefinite Article Blends Maria Piotrowska • Unwelcome Translation Borders and Boundaries: An Enquiry into the Scope, Profile and Dynamics of Contemporary Translation Studies Teresa Siek-Piskozub • (Inter)Cultural Turn in Foreign Language Pedagogy: Concepts and Problems Zdzisław Wąsik • Towards a Solipsistic Paradigm of Linguistic Semiotics: Discursive Existence of Language and Culture as Relational Properties of Communicating Selves "The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies, testify to a topical and disciplinary expansion of the core philological lines of research"..