The Ninth International Conference of The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
Dates
August 22 - 26, 2008
Venue
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Organizer
ESSE
Plenary speakers
* Steven Connor, professor of modern literature and theory, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (Thinking Things)
* Nigel Fabb, professor of literary linguistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (What is a Line of Verse?)
* Toril Moi, professor of English and literature, Duke University, US (Early Modernism? Reflections on British Literary History 1870 - 1914)
* Mark Turner, professor of cognitive science, Case Western Reserve University, US (Conceptual Blending in Language and Literature)
* Jenny Uglow, honorary professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK (Words and Pictures: Milton and Bunyan, Epic and Chapbook)
Seminars
* Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Approaches to Phraseology
* Censorship across Borders: The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-century Europe
* The House of Fiction as the House of Life: Representation of the House in Literature and Culture, 1700 - 1900
* Translation and Scottish Literature
* Corpora in Discourse Analysis and in Language Teaching
* Transnational Identity Politics in British Literature
* Mediated Discourse in Native and Non-Native Lingua Franca English
* Shakespeare and Discourse Stylistics
* Continuation or Change? Literatures in English in the New Millennium
