Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): 20th Anniversary Issue

Published by
Institute of English Studies
Department of English Literatures and Cultures
University of Pécs

Pécs 2018

Editor-in-chief: Mária Kurdi

Issue Editors:
Csaba Maczelka, Andrew C. Rouse, Lívia Szélpál

Advisory Board for the Issue:
Dániel Bagi (University of Pécs)
Éva Bús (Pannon University)
Irén Hegedűs (University of Pécs)
Eamonn Jordan (University College Dublin)
Ágnes Zsófia Kovács (University of Szeged)
Péter Kristóf Makai (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Péter P. Müller (University of Pécs)
Lenke Németh (University of Debrecen)
Róbert Péter (University of Szeged)
Károly Pintér (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus.11.2018

Published: 2024-08-07

Preface

Mária Kurdi

5-7
Contributors

9

Essays

Women and the Ballad Trade in Eighteenth-Century England

David Atkinson

15-26
- PDF file
“The first will serve the bookseller’s purpose”: Sterne’s double title page in The Sermons of Mr. Yorick

Gabriella Hartvig

27-43
- PDF file
“Hark! I Hear the Cannons Roar”: Twenty years in the life of a “new tune”

Andrew C. Rouse

45-56
- PDF file
The (Im)Possibility of Academic Integrity in John Williams’s Stoner

Ljubica Matek, Jasna Poljak Rehlicki

57-71
- PDF file
Crisis and Literature: Future Imperfect, or the Case of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

Sári B. László

73-81
- PDF file
Legacies of the Past and the American Family: Sam Shepard’s True West and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog /Underdog

Lenke Németh

81-93
- PDF file
Journeys Into Night: Agewise Cinematic Constructions in Cas and Dylan and Our Souls at Night

Réka M. Cristian

95-104
- PDF file
The Witness, the Silenced, and the Rebel—Women in Search of Their Voice: Female Characters in Brian Friel’s Translations and Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone

Bence Gábor Kvéder

105-122
- PDF file

Interview

A Talk with Irish Playwright Deirdre Kinahan

Mária Kurdi

125-136
- PDF file

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): 20th Anniversary Issue

Preface

Contributors

Essays

Women and the Ballad Trade in Eighteenth-Century England

“The first will serve the bookseller’s purpose”: Sterne’s double title page in The Sermons of Mr. Yorick

“Hark! I Hear the Cannons Roar”: Twenty years in the life of a “new tune”

The (Im)Possibility of Academic Integrity in John Williams’s Stoner

Crisis and Literature: Future Imperfect, or the Case of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis

Legacies of the Past and the American Family: Sam Shepard’s True West and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog /Underdog

Journeys Into Night: Agewise Cinematic Constructions in Cas and Dylan and Our Souls at Night

The Witness, the Silenced, and the Rebel—Women in Search of Their Voice: Female Characters in Brian Friel’s Translations and Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone

Interview

A Talk with Irish Playwright Deirdre Kinahan

Reviews

The Resurrection of the Dramatic Character Delgado-García, Cristina. Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015. 224 pages. e-ISBN 978-3- 11-033391-6.