Diogenes articles from June 2003

Diogenes archives from June 2003

Teaching English as culture: paradigm shifts in postcolonial discourse.
June 22, 2003... The teaching of an 'imperialist' language like English in a postcolonial era presents not only unprecedented difficulties to the teacher, it also raises disconcerting questions about the paradigms underlying the concepts of language, language...

English as global language: problems, dangers, opportunities.
June 22, 2003... Now that the age-old dream, which never materialized, of a universal language has evaporated, we note that English is in the process of becoming if not the universal at least an omnipresent language. In many multilingual countries it has become...

Relevant or not? Literature, literary research and literary researchers in troubled times.
June 22, 2003... This article notes the significance of the contribution that literary researchers--who must see themselves as 'researchers-as-artists'--make in the area of policy and politics. The 'researcher-as-artist' chooses words aesthetically to tell...

Writing, reading, storytelling--the love story of Sinha, Malhado, Carybe and Jorge Amado.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... The author discusses the significance of Jorge Amado's brief but crucial incursion into the world of children's literature: his O Gato Malhado e a Andorinha Sinha (about a tabby cat and a young lady swallow). This adventure from the pen of the...

On butterflies: stories and fables for children from the 17th century to the present day.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... In this article, a chapter from a more general study, the butterfly is considered as an arresting 'index', highlighting the evolution of children's culture and the relationships between science and literature. Comparing Furetiere's knowledge of...

Teaching literature as aberrant science.
June 22, 2003... To be a teacher of literature at a university today is to occupy a problematic position in the production and codification of knowledge--a fact that has generated a great deal of critical comment in recent years. But this position in its...

Teaching in a brave new world.(Emile-Auguste Chartier on humanistic education)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... This article is essentially a commentary on a little-known text by 'Alain' (whose real name was Emile-Auguste Chartier), successively entitled Les marchands de sommeil and Vigiles de l'esprit. This piece of work, initially a prize-giving speech...

Digital publishing: humans write, God reads.(implications of digital publishing)
June 22, 2003... Literary writing in the digital era is evolving using languages that have a much greater dynamic potential than those known hitherto. The very phrase 'text processing' implies the notion of writing 'in process', which has very recently been...

Is literature dangerous? Or, the teacher's anguish.(struggles of teaching modern literature)
June 22, 2003... Abstract Starting from personal experiences which led him to give up teaching at the University of Venice, Alfonso Berardinelli concentrates on the difficulties and paradoxes of the relationship between educational institutions, on the one...

Editorial preface to presentations by the member associations of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures.
June 22, 2003... This issue of Diogenes includes short papers by prominent officers of 18 of the member-associations of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (Federation Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes--FILLM)...

The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... ACLALS is the most important body for 'Commonwealth Writing'. There has always been a robust debate on what exactly is 'Commonwealth Literature': the debate has often shifted creatively and critically to New Writing in English, World...

International Association of French Studies (AIEF). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Association Internationale des Etudes Francaises The AIEF was founded in 1948. Historically, its creation was part of the movement of outreach and international cooperation for which a definite need was felt following the end of the Second...

International Association of Lusitanists (AIL). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Associacao Internacional de Lusitanistas Although I may need to introduce our Association, a member of the FILLM since 1997, it is probably unnecessary to introduce the Portuguese language at the end of a year in which our culture has been...

The Association of Latin-American Linguistics and Philology (ALFAL). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de America Latina The Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de America Latina, was created during a meeting held by the University of Chile's Instituto de Filologia (Vina Del Mar, 20-5 January 1964)....

Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa (ARCSA) (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Why is rhetoric central to the idea of a university in a democracy? ARCSA was established in July 1994, in the wake of the first Symposium of Rhetoric in Africa (now a regular biennial event). It formed a scholarly response to the advent of...

The Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... AULLA was founded in 1950 as the Australasian Universities Modern Languages Association. The name was changed in 1957 to emphasize that the Association embraced all disciplines concerned with literary and language studies. When first...

International Association of Hungarian Studies (IAHS): Nemetkozi Magyar Filologiai Tarsasag. (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The International Association of Hungarian Studies was born out of the recognition that Hungarian philology--or, more broadly speaking, Hungarian studies in general--had already come to represent an international scholarly discipline in the...

The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) is a cross-disciplinary international organization devoted to propagating Latin as a living discipline. Founded about 30 years ago to promote Neo-Latin as a discipline, it holds...

International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... In 1986 Elias Bredsdorff published an early history of the IASS. As this work, The History of IASS (G6teborgs universitet, ISBN 91-86270-13-3), graphically illustrates, the history of the IASS is in fact a history of its Study Conferences which...

The International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) is at the time of writing in the middle of preparations for the celebration of its Jubilee. In 1948, the then editors of English Studies wrote to colleagues in British...

The International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA): Association Internationale de Litterature Comparee. (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Comparative literary studies gathered momentum throughout the 19th century in Europe and North America and began to thrive with the advent of Modernism. But the successful launch of an international collaborative organization specifically...

The International Institute Charles Perrault, France (IICP): Institut International Charles Perrault--France. (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The Institute specializes in training, research and the organization of events in the field of children's literature and culture. It was founded in May 1994 by Paris-Nord University (Paris XIII), more particularly by Jean Perrot, Professor of...

The International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Children's literature is increasingly recognized as a significant area and as a rich and growing field of academic study. It is of interest to literature and language scholars, teachers and librarians, journalists, writers and illustrators,...

International Association for Germanic Studies (IVG): International Vereinigung fur Germanistik. (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The International Association for Germanic Language and Literature (Internationale Vereinigung fur Germanische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft--the name was changed at the business meeting at the 2000 Congress in Vienna to Internationale...

International Association for Dutch Studies (IVN): Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek. (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... Dutch is the mother tongue of some 21 million people. It is the official language of the Netherlands and Flanders as well as Suriname, Aruba and the Dutch Antilles. The strategic position of Flanders and the Netherlands in Europe has meant...

The Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).
June 22, 2003... The great differences in size, administration, and function of the member-associations of the FILLM are in one sense an obvious source of strength, but no less obviously can cause difficulties, since those who are active in the management of...

The Modern Language Association of America (MLA).
June 22, 2003... Dr Phyllis Franklin, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association of America for many years and currently Vice-President of FILLM, would have been the appropriate contributor on this topic, but she could not be present at this...

The Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
June 22, 2003... The Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) was formally established in 1980 at the University of Nottingham, England, its first meeting. The Association was the result of informal discussions held at a Linguistics Association of Great...