The challenge of change
By: edited by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert
Contributors: Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret, 1952- editor; Hilpert, Martin, editor
Series: Swiss papers in English language and literature -- volume 36; SPELL : Swiss papers in English language and literature -- volume 36.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Tubingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783823382416
Subjects: Change in literature; Congresses; Congresses and conventions; Essays; International relief; Neurosciences; Social policy
Description: Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear, excitement and dread. From the panta rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory, nobel laureate Bob Dylans 'The times they are a-changin', the Obama campaign slogan 'Change we can believe in', and the current advertising mantra 'Change is good', it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. This volume contains essays on the topic of change in English language, literature and culture. Some are based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference, which took place at the Université de Neuchâtel, while others have been specially written for this volume.
Notes: "The essays in this volume have their origin in the conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE) held at the Unversity of Neuchâtel on 28-29 April 2017"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments --; title: General editor's preface  -- Lukas Erne; title: Introduction  -- Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert -- The challenge of change in literature and culture; title: Shakespear and incomplete modernity  -- Ewan Fernie; title: "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." What did Easter 1961 change?  -- Martin Leer; title: Words as witness : remembering the present in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein  -- Scott Loren; title: "If wommen hadde writen stories" : gender and social change in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's tale" and Jane Austen's Persuasion  -- Anne-Claire Michoux and Katrin Rupp; title: Expanded, changed, but not weakened : posthuman Prometheanism and race in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis  -- Enit K. Steiner; title: "even now, / Ev'n now" : Coleridge's interval  -- Simon Swift; title: The figure of Scheherazade and Jane Austen's changing senses of an ending  -- Margaret Tudeau-Clayton; title: Capitalism and dirty talk : Donald Trump's crowdfunded discourse and the demise of political community  -- Boris Vejdovsky -- The challenge of change in linguistics; title: Jane Austen's sensitivity to the subjunctive as a social shibboleth  -- Anita Auer; title: Scribes as agents of change : copying practices in administrtive texts from fifteenth-century Coventry  -- Tino Oudesluijs -- Afterword.; title: "I am conservative and I like change -- Felipe Frenández-Armesto.