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EM Forster in Africa Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw ROCZNIK NAUKOWY LINGWISTYCZNEJ SZKOŁY WYŻSZEJ W WARSZAWIE Nr 10 Wydawca / Publisher: Lingwistyczna Szkoła Wyższa w Warszawie al. Jerozolimskie 148, Warszawa, 02–326 Redakcja / Editorial Board: Redaktor Naczelny / Editor-in-chief: prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Fordoński Redaktor prowadzący / Executive Editor: dr Paweł Wojtas Redaktor językowy sekcji polskiej/ Polish Language Editor: mgr Klaudia Ciesłowska Redaktor językowy sekcji angielskiej/ English Language Editor: dr Matthew Foley Rada Naukowa / External Board: Przewodniczący Rady Naukowej: Prof. dr hab. Jan Franciszek Nosowicz (Lingwistyczna Szkoła Wyższa w Warszawie) Prof. dr hab. Zofia Jancewicz (Lingwistyczna Szkoła Wyższa w Warszawie) Prof. dr hab. Leonarda Dacewicz (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku) Prof. dr hab. Jacek Fabiszak (Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu) Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Obirek (Uniwersytet Warszawski) Prof. dr hab. Piotr Urbański (Uniwersytet im. A. 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Małgorzata Fabiszak, Prof. dr hab. Mariusz Górnicz, Prof. zw. dr hab. Siergiej Griniev-Griniewicz, Prof. dr hab. Roman Hajczuk, Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Jamrozik, Prof. dr hab. Zofia Jancewicz, Prof. dr hab. Jan Franciszek Nosowicz, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Kaczmarek, Prof. dr hab. Aniela Korzeniowska, Prof. dr hab. Bożena Kucała, Prof. dr hab. Ewa Kujawska-Lis, Prof. dr hab. Robert Kusek, Prof. dr hab. Jo Lewkowicz, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Łysak, Prof. dr hab. Joanna Maciulewicz, Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Olpińska, Prof. dr hab. Maciej Parkitny, Prof. dr hab. Radosław Piętka, Prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Poloczek, Prof. dr hab. Dario Prola, Prof. dr hab. Iwona Puchalska, Prof. dr hab. Agata Rozumko, Prof. dr hab. Hanna Rutkowska, Prof. dr hab. Tomasz Sikora, Prof. dr hab. Halina Stasiak, Prof. dr hab. Piotr Stępień, Prof. dr hab. Mateusz Stróżyński, Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Tryuk, Prof. dr hab. Piotr Wilczek, Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Witczak, Prof. Tania Zulli, Dr Jarosław Aptacy, Dr Daniel Banasiak, Dr Maaz Bin Bilal, Dr Sławomira Brud, Dr Anna Bielska, Dr Iwona Drabik, Dr Alicja Fandrejewska, Dr Tomasz Fisiak, Dr Małgorzata Hołda, Dr Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk, Dr Anna Jaroch, Dr Marcin Jurkowicz, Dr Sylwia Krukowska, Dr Paweł Kaptur, Dr Wioletta Karwacka, Dr Monika Kresa, Dr Łukasz Karpiński, Dr Małgorzata Kornacka, Dr Anna Kwiatkowska, Dr Piotr Michałowski, Dr Tomasz Ososiński, Dr Francesca Pierini, Dr Piotr Podemski, Dr Jacek Pokrzywnicki, Dr Katarzyna Remiszewska, Dr Fraser Riddell, Dr Anna Rogos-Hebda, Dr Piotr Romanowski, Dr Elwira Stefańska, Dr Artur Stęplewski, Dr Katarzyna Tryczyńska, Dr Przemysław Wilk, Dr Józef Ziemczonok, Mr John Attridge Contents Editors’ Preface . 9 Adaptation, Inspiration, Dialogue: E.M. Forster and His Oeuvre in Contemporary Culture Krzysztof Fordoński . 11 Biography E.M. Forster in Africa Evelyne Hanquart-Turner . 49 Reading Forster’s Will Daniel Monk . 61 The Novels “Facing the Sunshine”: Nature and (Social) Environment in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad . 83 Posing as Pastoral: The Displacement of the “very poor” in Howards End John Attridge . 97 O/other and the Creation of the Self in E.M. Forster’s Howards End Elif Derya Şenduran . 119 Travel and Transformations: The Transcultural Predicament of Female Travellers in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) Nadia Butt . 141 Modern Hindu Reformers’ View of Hinduism Reflected in A Passage to India: “Caves” as a Symbol of the Universal Formless God, and “Temple” as Idolatry Toshiyuki Nakamichi . 163 6 Contents Short Stories Hotel Melodrama in E.M. Forster’s “The Story of a Panic” and “The Story of the Siren” Athanasios Dimakis . 189 “So Far No Other”: Alterity in Forster’s “The Other Boat” Anastasia Logotheti . 213 Dystopian Space in E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” Marcin Tereszewski . 225 Encounters with Forster E.M. Forster and the Legacy of Aestheticism: “Kipling’s Poems” (1909) and Forster’s Dialogue with Max Beerbohm Margaret D. Stetz . 239 Forster, Kipling and India: Friendship in the Colony Harish Trivedi . 259 The Mother-Child Relationship in E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Hisashi Ozawa . 283 “Go West!” In Search of the “Greenwood” in Mike Parker’s On the Red Hill Robert Kusek . 305 Conference Reports Re-Orientating E.M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions. The Cambridge Forster Conference 2020 J.H.D. Scourfield . 323 “E.M. Forster’s Legacies Half a Century After His Death: Nostalgia, Heritage and Queer”. Conference Report Kaoru Urano, Takahiro Mimura, Saeko Nagashima, Masayuki Iwasaki . 335 Contents 7 Reviews Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai, 2020. Twenty-First-Century Readings of E.M. Forster’s Maurice. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 281 Fraser Riddell . 339 Krzysztof Fordoński and Anna Kwiatkowska (eds.), 2021. The World of E.M. Forster – E.M. Forster and the World . Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 167 Ewa Kujawska-Lis . 343 E.M. Forster. His Longest Journey, documentary, DVD, November 2020. Produced and directed by Adrian Munsey & Vance Goodwin. Narrated by James Wilby Anna Kwiatkowska . 347 Heather Green and J.C. Green, 2020. Forster in 50 . Dorking: The Cockerel Press, pp. 28. Krzysztof Fordoński . 351 Call for Papers . 353 Reviewing and accepting for publication . 363 Notes for Contributors . 365 Authors’ biodata . 371 Editors’ Preface The present issue of the Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw closes the first decade of our activity. It has been a very productive decade, the first of many to come, as we all hope. We look back at ten volumes of one hundred and twenty-two greatly varied arti- cles in linguistics as well as literary and cultural studies, by almost one hundred authors, somewhat surprised by the sheer size of our achievement. However, it is certainly not the end but only the beginning of a new and great adventure as we enter the 2020s. We wanted to celebrate our anniversary with a special issue and discussed several options in the early winter of 2020. As two of the editors are active members of the Inter- national E.M. Forster Society, one of the options was to join the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the death of the novelist and, at the same time, mark the tenth anniversary of the Society. What we had in mind back then was a section dedicated to Forster, a selec- tion of papers, which would act as an addition to the celebrations planned for June 2020 at Cambridge. The pandemic changed these plans. Consequently, we decided to join forces with the IEMFS and dedicate the whole issue to Forster, giving an opportunity to all those who wanted to celebrate the anniversary with a publication. It was an experiment for us as we have never before published an issue dedicated to a single author. It was also a major effort to complete the edition on time but it felt good to invest our time and labour in such an undertaking, which will make us remember 2020 as a year of fruitful work rather than a year of uncertainty and fear. The results of this experiment are now ready to be shared with readers. The volume includes both the works of seasoned and eminent scholars who have studied Forster and his oeuvre for many years, and young academics who have just started their careers. Alto- gether, there are over twenty authors from three continents featured here. We believe that this combination, as well as the variety of discussed topics and applied methodologies, 10 Editors’ Preface makes our issue a valuable work: a representative overview of Forster studies fifty years after his death. The issue includes fifteen papers – divided into the four sections Biography, The Novels, Short Stories, and Encounters with Forster – two conference reports, and four reviews of publications celebrating the anniversary. One of the reports deserves a few more words of an introduction as it is something of a novelty: a report from a conference that did not take place. It is our attempt to commemorate the efforts of the organising committee of the “Re-Orientating E.M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions” conference. Perhaps one day it will be possible for the conference to happen, perhaps in a different shape and place, yet at the moment we can only invite you to read about that long-planned event, as well as to read those of the included articles which were originally to be presented at Cambridge. This issue of our journal is complete but it is by no means the end of the work for the International E.M. Forster Society. We close this issue with the call for papers for the conference “E.M. Forster – Shaping the Space of Culture”, which will be held on June 7th, 2021, on the 51st anniversary of Forster’s death. As the conference will be held “through the Machine” you are all invited to participate, but please note that there is not much time to submit your proposals. We would like to finish this introduction by expressing our gratitude to all the authors who trusted us with their work.
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