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Venue of the conference
Egyetem u. 2., Szeged, Hungary – the main building of the Faculty of Arts.
Conference Program
(as of January 24, 2007)
January 25, Thursday
11.00– Registration
11.30-12.30 Optional and free guided tour in Szeged. Starting from Hotel Tisza, Széchenyi Square
14:00-14:50 BTK, Aud. Max: Opening and welcome
“The State of Affairs in English Studies in Hungary” Address by the President of HUSSE (György E. Szönyi)
15:00-17:00 Session 1
1/1 SHAKESPEARE 1. (Sík Sándor terem) – Chair: Kiss Attila
Szabó Máté
- Shakespeare and Derrida’s Cultural Graphology
Matuska Ágnes
- Representation Strikes Back
Horkics Edina Magdolna
- Biblical Allusions in Richard III
Kiss Attila
- The sea and the theater: the semiography of Othello
1/2 POETRY 1. (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Bocsor Péter
Mérey Diána
- The Symbolism of Romantic and Modernist Poetry
Rawlinson Zsuzsa
- “…the master of the airy manner”: The Poetry of W. H. Auden
Rácz István
- The popularity of poetry: light verse in post-1945 British literature
Szlukovényi Katalin
- “Vindicate the ways of God to Man” – Two Poetic Attempts of Theodicy
1/3 THE RECEPTION OF SCOTTISH AND ANGLO-IRISH AUTHORS IN EUROPE (Német szeminárium II.) – Chair: Kurdi Mária
Szaffner Emilia
- Early Scottish Literature in Hungary
Szamosi Gertrud
- The Canonization of Walter Scott as the Inventor of the Historical Novel in Twentieth- Century Hungarian Reception
Düring, Michael
- Swiftian ‘Cannibalism’ in Russia: Russian Translations of “A Modest Proposal”
Hartvig, Gabriella
- The Irish Reception of Richardson in the Eighteenth Century: The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
1/4 SEMANTICS, SYNTAX (VI. terem) – Chair: Kenesei István
Cserép Attila
- Cranberry words in English and Hungarian idioms
Dávid Gyula
- Overlapping Conceptual Aspects of Idiomaticity
Surányi Balázs
- Subjects questions in English: Phases and derivational order
Szabóné dr Papp Judit
- The Dative Shift in Construction and Cognitive Grammars
1/5 ESL 1. (Kari konferencia terem) – Peckham, Don
Ábrahám Károlyné
- Coursebooks with religious topics to teach culture and language
Bársony Olga
- Pragmatics in Professional Writing
Darginaviciene, Irena, Liuoliene, Alvyda, Tamosiuniene, Lora, Vaiciuniene, Vilhelmina
- Teacher attitudes towards classroom management in IT based classroom
1/6 FILM (III. terem) – Chair: Cristian Réka M.
Dragon Zoltán
- What Filmmaking Can Do, and Theory Can’t: Dialogue of Film and Novel on the Screen
Szélpál Livia
- Sommersby: The Return of “The Return of Martin Guerre”
Orosz Szilárd
- Forms of Deviance in Hal Hartley’s Amateur
Tóth Zsófia
- Made and/or self-made women in the early 30s
1/7 AMERICAN DRAMA (X. terem) – Chair: Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
Mitocaru, Simona
- A Male Perspective on the American Dream in David Mamet’s Drama
Prohászka Rád Boróka
- The Figure of the Scapegoat in Selected Plays by Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, and A.R. Gurney
Szamosmenti Marianne
- What is American About Sam Shepard’s Theatre
Varró Gabriella
- Love-Hate and Deviance in Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms and Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind
1/8 NOVEL 1. (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Rozsnyai Bálint
Takács Ferenc
- Names and Persons: Wuthering Heights and the Lessons of Onomastics – Part 2
Csizmadia Balázs
- Towards heterodiegeticity: Marlow’s journey from “Youth” to ‘Chance’
Reichman Angelika
Surányi Ágnes
- The Representation of Otherness: Inscriptions of Race and Ethnicity in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:45-18:45 TIK (University Library): Subplenary Országh lectures
Alagsori I-es előadó. Chair: Kiss Attila
Dávidházi Péter: Redefining Knowledge: An Epistemological Shift in Shakespeare Studies
Alagsori II-es előadó. Chair: Abádi Nagy Zoltán
Kenesei István: Linguists versus Philosophers: Whose Turf Is It?
19:00-21:00 TIK (University Library): Welcome reception and conferring the Országh-prizes
January 26, Friday
09:00-11:00 Session 2
2/1 NOVEL 2. (Sík Sándor terem) – Chair: Reschné Marinovich Sarolta
Soovik, Ene-Reet
- “A success, a brilliant invention, a biological masterpiece…”: Representation of the City in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Kirchknopf Andrea
- Perceptions of “England” and “Englishness” in the Retro-Victorian novel
Csatári Annamária
- Reading Jane – Can Jane Gray Be Jane Eyre?
2/2 (PRE-)ROMANTICISM (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Szőnyi György Endre
Zámbóné Kocic Larisa
- Raphael, an angel of Milton’s own
Fejérvári Boldizsár
- Ephemera Eternalized: The Case of Thomas Chatterton
Antal Éva
- Ovidian Transformations in Blake’s Flower-Poems
Csikós Dóra
- “Who taught modesty, subtil modesty?”: Conduct Books and Prometheus Revisited in Blake’s “Visions”
2/3 MISCELLANEOUS 1. (Morphology, Phonology, Discourse, Psycholinguistics) (Német szeminárium II.) – Chair: Suszczynska, Malgorzata
Hegedűs Irén
- Infixation in English
Ősz Ágota
- On the Nature of Proper Names and Definite Descriptions from a Cognitive Perspective
Nagy Tibor
- Influence Of Model-Based Production On Accent Features. An Acoustic Analysis
Furkó Péter
2/4 EARLY ANGLO-AMERICAN CULTURES (VI. terem) – Chair: Vajda Zoltán
Fabiny Tibor
- Images and Shadows for Divine Things: the Religious Aesthetics of Jonathan Edwards
Rozsnyai Bálint
- Against Re-Canonization: the Case of Colonial British American Literature
Pokol Ágnes
- The Sociological Dimensions of The Scarlet Letter — Hawthorne as a Social Critic
Vöő Gabriella
- Fatal embrace with the Other: Melville and the literature of the Frontier
2/5 SHAKESPEARE 2. (Kari konferencia terem) – Chair: Kiss Attila
Stróbl Erzsébet
Orosz Kata
- ‘Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ – The politics of equivocation
Tanács Ágnes Tünde
- The Art of Dying (Well) on the Elizabethan Stage
Tóth Noémi
- Shakespeare’s Richard II as a Kabuki Actor and a Feminine King – Two Epoch-making Theatrical Interpretations from the 1980s
2/6 TRANSLATION (III. terem) – Chair: Novák György
Bakti Mária
- National Geographic in Hungarian
Heltai Pál
- Are Service Translations Translations?
Papp Andrea
- Why Harry Potter why not The Famous Five. Some aspects of translating children’s literature.
Vermes Albert
- Neologisms in translation
2/7 AUSTRALIAN STUDIES (X. terem) – Chair: Barát Erzsébet
Dömötör Ildikó
- Victorian gentlewomen’s attitudes to the Australian fauna
T. Espák Gabriella
- Aboriginal Survival and Kim Scott’s Benang
Tóth Ágnes
- Two Doomed Races: Images of the Native in Charles Chauvel’s Jedda and John Ford’s Cheyenne Autumn
Gergely Nikoletta
- Transgressing Boundaries: Representations of Hysteria, Subjectivity and the Body in Jane Campion’s The Piano
2/8 ESL 2. (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Peckham, Don
Tóth Éva
Orosz Andrea
- How much English vocabulary do Hungarian students know?
Walkó Zsuzsanna
- ‘Doing’, ‘knowing’ and ‘writing’: the representation of three levels of context in undergraduate writing
Sárosdy Judit and Farczády Bencze Tamás
- English classes for different learning styles and various learner types
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Subplenary Invited Speakers
_BTK, Auditorium Maximum_ — Chair: Rozsnyai Bálint
Martin Kayman (University of Cardiff) The Body of Law, The Literary Corpus, and the Return of the Real
_TTK Lecture Room_ — Chair: Szaffkó Péter
Rüdiger Ahrens (University of Würzburg) Equity as Ethical Principle in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: the Case of Joseph Conrad and E.M.Forster
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Session 3
3/1 SHAKESPEARE 3. (Sík Sándor terem) – Chair: Kiss Attila
Bernáth András
- Is Hamlet Incoherent? On Some Problems of Recent Criticism
Gellért Marcell
- King Lear Remapped – Topical Spaces vs. Spatial Topoi in Shakespeare’s Tragic Utopia
Hargitai Márta
- Linguistic changes in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Rednik Zsuzsanna
- The Changeling: An Integral Play
3/2 AMERICAN MODERNISMS (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
Asztalos Márta
- Family Romances in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Szabó Klára
- Still Water Stirred: Shades in Expressing Tradition and Change in Short Fiction by Southern Writers
Bús Éva
- “Summoned by Life”: Robert Frost’s A Way Out and the Tradition of Danse Macabre
Simon Zoltán
3/3 MISCELLANEOUS 2. (Historical, SLA) (Német szeminárium II.) – Chair: Barát Erzsébet
Őrsi Tibor
- Semantic change in Middle English borrowings from (Old) French
Szécsényi Krisztina
- Scrambling and the VO/OV dichotomy: evidence from Old English and Middle English
Piniel Katalin
- The evolution of foreign language classroom anxiety
3/4 ESL 3. (VI. terem) – Chair: Bukta Katalin
Tápainé Balla Ágnes
- Hungarian language learners’ experience with learning two genetically related languages: English and German
Peckham, Don
- Reading and writing academic texts: a university-level needs analysis
Biró Enikő
- Traps in Teaching Intercultural Competence. Case Study of a Transylvanian University Department
Williams, Thomas
- Whither Hungarian TEFL?: Changes in the field and their implications for Hungary
3/5 POETRY 2. (Kari konferencia terem) – Chair: Bocsor Péter
B. Varga Éva
- The shadowy figure: Wordsworth’s female characters
Sztana Ágnes
- Dorothy Wordsworth and education as a form of charity
Timár Krisztina
- Separation and consolation in Emily Brontë’s poetry
Szalay Edina
- “A Woman–white–to be–“: Politics of Subjectivity and Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
3/6 TEXT AND IMAGE (III. terem) – Chair: Szőnyi György Endre
Bakó Krisztián Zsolt
- Photography as Theme and Motif in Literary Texts
Erdei Nóra
- Look at the Poem – The Visual Context of Goblin Market
Nagy Nóra
- An Allegorical Interpretation of Edward Burne Jones’s The Mirror of Venus
Végh Noémi
- The Media-Anthropological Reconfiguration of the Literary: Laminations in the Texts of A. S. Byatt
3/7 GOTHIC (X .terem) – Chair: Reschné Marinovich Sarolta
Tóth Réka
- Gothic terror – Uncanniness in early gothic fiction
Kurdi Mária
- “They are throwing tantrums in the coffin”: Gothic Motifs in the Drama of Marina Carr
Antoni Rita
- ”I want to play with you” – Evil Children in Contemporary American Gothic
Csetényi Korinna
3/8 SCOTTISH STUDIES (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Vajda Zoltán
Kovácsné Fodor Veronika
- Management, bribery and propaganda during the negotiations preceding the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.
Dósa Attila
- ‘Fife’s lyric hills’: Landscape Poetry and Versions of Scottish Identity in Douglas Dunn’s ‘Northlight’
Szabó F. Andrea
- James Hogg and John Knox: The Transfiguration of the Scottish Past in Spark’s and Munro’s Two Narratives
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 4
4/1 HUNGARIAN – ENGLISH (Sík Sándor terem) – Chair: Novák György
Péteri Éva
- William Morris’s Story on King Matthias (William Morris Mátyás meséje)
Petrőczi Éva
- Dido and Aeneas – or Variations on a Brodsky-Theme
Zarka Zsuzsanna
- Hungarian and Irish Roots of Arthur Griffith’s Policy of ’Sinn Fein’
4/2 CANADIAN LITERATURE (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Kürtösi Katalin
Kürtösi Katalin
- Hungarians and Hungary in recent Canadian writing
Molnár Judit
- Narrating the Homeland: The Italian-Canadian Experience in Nino Ricci’s Trilogy
Szaffkó Péter
- Canadian Plays and Players in the Canadian Theatre Review: The First 15 Years
4/3 SELF, TRAVEL, OTHER (Német szeminárium II.) – Chair: Kérchy Anna
Kádár Judit Ágnes
- Fictional In-Betweenness in Deborah Larsen’s The White (2003)
Kovács Ágnes Zsófia
- The science of manners in Edith Wharton’s travel writing
4/4 TIME, IDENITITY, ABSURD (VI. terem) – Chair: Szabó Klára
Cristian Réka M.
- Goats, Driving Lessons and Angels: Notes on Contemporary Dramatic Identites of America
Csapó Csaba
- Anti-mimetic Meta-dramas in Tennessee Williams’s Late Dramaturgy
Volom Viktor
- Conceptual Metaphors and Blends of Time in 20th Century American Science Fiction
4/5 SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Kari konferencia terem) – Chair: Fenyvesi Anna
Czeglédi Sándor
Eitler Tamás
- “Subtract five for club promo”: Estuary English from a sociolinguistic perspective
Hoffmann Zsuzsa
4/6 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (III. terem) – Chair: Nagy Gergely
Reuss Gabriella
- A Laughing Matter of Who Stoops to Conquer
Rouse, Andrew
- Song in the Eighteenth Century
Péter Róbert
- The Metanarratives of the Relationship Between the Enlightenments and Religion
4/7 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA) (X. terem) – Chair: Peckham, Don
Bagaric, Vesna – Pavicic Takac
- Do Age And Gender Influence The Use Of FL Vocabulary Learning Strategies?
Gergely Zsuzsanna
- Reading and Mind
Kormos Judit
- A qualitative investigation of the language learning motivation of English majors (coauthor: Menyhért Adrienn)
4/8 AMERICAN HISTORY (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Csillag András
Vajda Zoltán
Rusnik, Kristina
- Romantic Myths and Modern Warfare in the American Civil War
Korbel Péter
- Are Traumas Comparable? Different Literary Approaches to 9/11
18:30-19.00 BTK Aud.Max
“The Violence of my Joy” (Multimedia Presentation of the Titus Andronicus Project)
Cultural Iconography and Semiography Research Group
20.00–> Fishsouping (Roosevelt téri Halászcsárda)
January 27, Saturday
09:00-11:00 Session 5
5/1 ROMANTICISM (Sík Sándor terem) – Chair: Szőnyi György Endre
Barcsák János
- The Ending of the ‘Ode to the West Wind’ and Shelley’s Concept of Necessity
Péter Ágnes
- From the Romantic Image to Symbolism in Poetry: P.B.Shelley and Jenő Komjáthy
Gárdos Bálint
- The problem of originality in William Hazlitt
5/2 NOVEL 3. (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Rozsnyai Bálint
Földváry Kinga
- Never Let Me Go – Old Ishiguro Themes in New Disguise
Sárdi Rudolf
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s critical reception in Hungary: The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphan
Kató Eszter
- The power of the Tongue. Language: Responsibility and Existence in Beckett and Coetzee
Veres Ottilia
- The Rhetoric of Mourning in J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg
5/3 IDENTITY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Német szeminárium II.) – Chair: Barát Erzsébet
Maráczi Orsolya
- New perspectives to The Bell Jar
Magyari Andrea
- Sylvia Plath’s Journals
Bökös Borbála
- On the Uncanny in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy
5/4 BLACK AND LATINO LITERATURES (VI. terem) – Chair: Novák György
Abádi Nagy Zoltán
- Narratorial Consciousness as an Intersection of Culture and Narrative
Gaál Szabó Péter
- “Please tuh give us uh restin’ place:” The Black Sacred Cosmos as the Space of Individual and Social Integrity in Jonah’s Gourd Vinemso
Gyetvai Éva
- Black Is Ugly. Black Is Beautiful. Black Is.
Bodó Katalin
- Americas: A Study of Hybridity and ’Mestizaje’ Through the Literary Works of Aurora Levins Morales
5/5 VICTORIAN CULTURE (Kari konferencia terem) – Chair: Reschné Marinovich Sarolta
Csinády Judit
- The Controversies of the Victorian English Public School
Annus Irén
- Mary Cassatt on Victorian True Womanhood
Lukács Zsuzsanna
Kérchy Anna
- “From Automaton to Activist.” Representations of Spectacular Female Performers of Late Victorian Countercultures in Georges du Maurier’s, Angela Carter’s and Sarah Waters’ Fiction
5/6 THEORETICAL TOUCH (III. terem) – Chair: Bocsor Péter
Csató Péter
- The Rhetoric of Circumvention: Rorty, Derrida, and the Metaphysical Tradition
Tóth Tibor István
- Literary Studies: Past, Present and Future
Illésfalvi Iván
Klapcsik Sándor
- Science Fiction and the Concept of History in Novels by Philip K. Dick
5/7 Shakespeare 4. (X. terem) – Chair: Kiss Attila
Najbauer Noémi
Pikli Natália
- Clichés (?) in Shakespeare Studies: the Ritual Framework and the Comedies
Lieli Pál
- The (Non)-Reflection of the thou/you Contrast in Lőrinc Szabó’s Translation of As You Like It
Szele Bálint
- Lőrinc Szabó and the Hungarian Shakespeare
5/8 SYNTAX (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Kenesei István
Czeglédi Csaba
- Constructive Linguistics
Dalmi Gréte
- Predication: syntactic, semantic or pragmatic?
Tóth Gabriella
- Some remarks on the functional domain of small clauses
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Subplenary Invited Speakers
BTK, Auditorium Maximum. Chair: Kurdi Mária
Susana Onega: The Negotiation of Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction
TTK Lecture Room. Chair: Vajda Zoltán
Donald Wesling: Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons (On Literary Emotions)
12:30-13:30 BTK, Aud. Max: General Assembly of HUSSE
13:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 6
6/1 IRISH STUDIES (Sík Sándor terem) – Chairs: Kelly, Edward and Darmody, Sean
Bertha Csilla
- “The falcon cannot hear the falconer”; Cultural memory in Brian Friel’s The Home Place
Bráde Loránd
- Men Fighting God in Tom Murphy’s plays
Ardelean Timea
- Homecoming, quest for home, quest for self on stage in contemporary Irish drama
P. Balogh Andrea
- The Ends of Liberal Feminist Aesthetics. Eavan Boland’s Poetry
Dolmányos Péter
- An Afterwards — Abandoned Places in Derek Mahon’s Poetry
6/2 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (Dézsi Lajos terem) – Chair: Annus Irén
Bíróné Nagy Katalin
- Colón or Columbus?–Gloria Bird’s „History”
Tarnóc András
- ”troubles of a deeper dye, than are commonly experienced by mortals:” Defining the Self and the Other in Captivity Narratives
Limpár Ildikó
- Returning to the Roots by Uprooting Literary Tradition in Linda Hogan’s Power
Szathmári Judit
- Indian Country
6/4 PRAGMATICS, TRANSLATION (VI. terem) – Chair: Fenyvesi Anna
Andor József
- A case study in contrastive lexical pragmatics: SHIFTY and its synonyms
Kovács Éva
Nagano, Robin Lee
- Attracting an audience: The pragmatics of titling an academic article
Boldog Gyöngyi
- The form and function of reporting clauses in English narratives and their translations
6/5 NOVEL 4. (Kari konferencia terem) – Chair: Rozsnyai Bálint
Bozai Ágota
- The Best Indian – Intertextual ‘anchors’ in Salman Rushdie’s novel
Farkas Ákos
- Burgess Our Contemporary: the Enderby Novels and Post-Bakhtinian Theory
Kusnir, Jaroslav
- The Real, Imaginary and Possible in Robert Coover’s Short Stories (A Child Again, 2005)
Novák György
6/6 MISCELLANEOUS (LITERATURE/CULTURE) (III. terem) – Chair: Nagy Gergely
Nagy Andrea
- The Devil is a Coward: Irony in Cynewulf’s Juliana
Szauter Dóra
Cora Zoltán
Matolcsy Kálmán
- Masks in the Forest: The Dynamics of Surface and Depth in Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Cycle
6/7 THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS (X. terem) – Chair: Kenesei István
Martsa Sándor
Pelyvás Péter
- Extension in the meanings of WILL
6/8 REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININITY (Angol Tolmácsterem) – Chair: Kérchy Anna
Cseicsner Ottilia
- Malcontent, Malecontent, Insatiable Women
Bülgözdi Imola
Németh Anikó
- The Perspectives of Victorian Women in the 21st century: Visions, Ideals and Differences
Bajner Mária
- The image of woman in the narrative of soap operas
16.00 Closing the conference