A collected volume of essays capturing the vitality of the current transcultural European dialogue on English studies. The volume addresses a diversity of subjects in literary studies and is particulary strong in literary theory and poetry.

Contributors: Alan Sinfield, University of Sussex; Frank Kermode; Jean-Jacques Lecercle,, University of Nanterre, France; Jina Politi, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece; Herbert Grabes, Justus-Liebig-Universitat, Giessen, Germany; Theo d'Haen, Leiden University, Germany; Marc de la Ruelle,, Proviciaal Instituut voor Hoger Onderwijs, Gent, Belgium; Juliette Dor, University of Liege, Germany; Claus Uhlig, University of Marburg, Germany; Agostino Lombardo, William Dodd, University of Siena, Italy; Donatella Pallotti, University of Florence, Italy; Ingfrid Kuczynski, Martin-Luther-Universitat, Hall-Wittenberg, Germany; Barrie Bullen, Reading University; Max Saunders, Kings College, London; Christine Sandbach-Dahlstrom, Stockholm University, Sweden; Terence Brown; Joao Duarte, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Gareth Reeves, Durham University; Maria Stella, Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy; Anita Weston, University of Perugia, Italy; Pilar Hidlago, Malaga University, Spain; Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece; Robert Clark, University of East Anglia