New Directions in English and American Studies [antikvár]

Preface The present volume brings togetiier a selection of the latest research papers of the English Department, Kodolányi János University College. The papers are written by colleagues, guest-lecturers and, for the first time, by former students who, with the support of the College, entered various academic competitions and won prizes for their work. A glance at the Table of Contents will show the stimulating diversity and range of interests of our contributors within the fields of literature, linguistics, history and methodology. The Hterature section covers British, American and Canadian topics, classical as well as modern. A fresh eye is brought to bear on Kyd, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Arthur Miller, the authors of the South and the Canadian Robertson Davies and his contemporaries. Some English translations of well-known Hungarian poems and a study on the problems of literary translation add freshness and polemic to this section. The part on linguistics contains a study on cognitive, another on descriptive and two on historical linguistics. History is represented by an evocative, illustrated study on the Bushmen of Africa. One of the studies in the methodology section deals with the important question of content and language integrated learning, while the other is a practical study describing how word games can be applied to foreign language teaching. We are confident that the reader wiU find much of interest. Székesfehérvár, 2005. Eva H. Stephanides Ph.D. editor